"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - 2017)
American Actress
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
- Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - 2017)
American Actress
Positive thoughts
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
- Emiliano Zapata
(1879-1919) Mexican Revolutionary
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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish Playwright
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"I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
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"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."
- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
American Politician, Religious Advocate
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Third President of the United States
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"It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."
- Euripides (480 BC - 406 BC)
Greek Playwright
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“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”
― George Carlin
"Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap."
- William J. Bennett (B - 1943)
American Author and Educator
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"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
American Philosopher and Writer