Only a life lived for others is worth living.
- Albert Einstein -
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If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa -
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One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
- William Feather -
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau –
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Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can.
- John Wesley -
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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The best way to determine your destiny is to create it.
- Wendy Kwek -
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Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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If you have low needs, you have high power. The power to negotiate and the power to say ‘no’ to others. Many people have high needs and therefore low power.
- Jerome Tan -
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Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”
- Martn Luther King, Jr.
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Happy are those who dream dreams and ready to pay the price to make them come true.
- Leon J. Suenes -
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir -
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus -
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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
- Cicero -
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The only security is what you create for yourself. You cannot depend on others for security.
- Wendy Kwek -
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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson -
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Success is the sum of small effort, repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier -
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Loyd Wright -
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
- Elbert Hubbard -
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There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley -
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Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.
- Dennis Waitley -
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope -
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
- Josh Billings -
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Earl of Beaconsfield -
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
- Evan Esar -
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell -
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It is not the outcome but who you become that truly matters.
- Wendy Kwek -
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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
- St. Clement of Alexandra -
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot.
- Walter Bagehut -
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke -
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle -
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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
- Voltaire -
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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
- Benjamin Disraeli -
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The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost -
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague -
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson -
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Fortune favors the brave.
- Publius Terence -
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius –
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein -
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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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We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
- Winston Churchill -
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
- Matthew Prior -
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
- Mary Shelley -
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The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
- Solomon Ibn Gabriol -
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Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
- Plutarch -
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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
- William James -
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx -
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You can have anything you want in this life, as long as you help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar -
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.
- Oprah Winfrey -
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A wise man learns by the mistake of others, a fool by his own.
- Latin Proverb -
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden where the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde -
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody is going to know if you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey -
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Aristotle -
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey -
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
- Oprah Winfrey -
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The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
- Catherine the Great -
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Of all parts wisdom the practice is the best.
- John Tillotson -
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One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
- Alexander Chase -
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The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.
- Confucius -
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Men spend their lives anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
- Charles Caleb Colton -
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The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own’.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Epictetus -
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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin -
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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus -
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli -
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Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
- J. Petit Senn -
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It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb -
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein -
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Ghandi -
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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
- Bernard M. Baruch -
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one at a time.
- Richard Cech -
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein -
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The first and greatest commandment is, don’t let them scare you.
- Elmer Davis -
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau -
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All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with wide open eyes to it possible.
- T.E. Lawrence -
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau -
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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Hold fast to dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Lanston Hughes -
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You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
- Henry D. Thoreau -
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Hope is the dream of waking man.
- French Proverb -
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It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.
- Michel de Montaigne -
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- Sir Francis Bacon -
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We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
- Mao Tse-Tung -
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A person’s true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
- Mohammed -
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The efficient man is the man who think for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.
- Charles W. Eliot -
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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli -
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The ultimate measure of a man is not moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George Patton -
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Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
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The quality of a man’s life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi -
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
- Alfred North Whitehead -
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Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato -
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France -
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
- Hermann Hesse -
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Most disappointments in life stems from having expectation. It is not to lower expectations but to know that everything that happens, happens for a reason!
- Wendy Kwek -
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Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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Life without a purpose is a every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, ‘This day let me make a sound beginning’.
- Thomas Kempis -
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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
- Oscar Wilde -
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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.
Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius -
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