"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."
Joseph Addison
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"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."
Joseph Addison
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"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering."
- Sextus Propertius, (50BC - 16AD)
Roman Poet
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"If we should fail -- we fail. But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail."
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
English Playwright
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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every barking dog.
Winston Churchill.
"To forget oneself is to be happy."
Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
American Poet and Essayist
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"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power."
William James
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Just be yourself you are unique and one day you are going to shine.:D.
"Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)
Russian Novelist
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"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above the little things.'"
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
American Naturalist and Writer
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"There is great power in a resolution that has no reservations in it -- a strong, persistent, tenacious purpose -- which burns all bridges behind it and which clears all obstacles from its path and arrives at its goal, no matter how long it may take, no matter what the sacrifice or the cost."
- Orison Sweet Marden (1850 - 1924)
American Editor and Speaker
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"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."
- Felix Adler
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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Barack Obama
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"No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster."
- Orison Sweet Marden (1850 - 1924)
American Editor and Speaker
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"Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
English Novelist
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus (55-135 AD) (55 AD - 135 AD)
Greek Philosopher
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Awesome
"If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BC)
Roman Writer, Statesman, and Orator
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"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."
Richard Wright
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"Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it."
- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
French Scientist
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Arthur Ashe
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"He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made."
- Henry B. Wilson
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"Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves."
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43-17 BC) Roman Poet
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Saul Bellow
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"That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
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"A goal is a dream that has an ending."
- Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899 - 1974)
American Composer Bandleader and Pianist
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"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
- Christopher Darlington Morley
(1890-1957)
Will you be successful? :)
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"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn
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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Irish Playwright
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You seem like a very strong person I admire your strength.
Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles, it takes away today's peace
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No amount of regret can change the past, No amount of anxiety can change the future
"I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal."
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
English Novelist
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Try to avoid pessimists, negativity can be catching.:)
"Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art."
- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
Roman philosopher
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Small changes end up being big results.:D.
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Scottish Writer
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