Dictionary of Quotes
Michael Oduah
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Introduction
Quotations give most people a good sense and reason for living. When experiencing difficult times they pick the appropriate quote which best suits the situation they are facing and meditate on it . The richness and diversity of this “Dictionary of Quotes” is its greatest strength and abiding pleasures in serving the purpose it is meant for.
With over 10,000 entries on over 250 subjects, The “Dictionary of Quotes” is the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative quotation dictionary ever compiled. It finds the right word on any subject, and explores the links between treasured sayings. This collection provides unrivalled coverage of ancient and modern quotes.
The text is a browser's paradise, covering people and events from Aesop to Bill Gates and so many more. The alphabetical index will help you to find quotes easily.
Readership: Writers,
speakers, students, journalists, and general
readers.
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A
Ability, Abundance, Accomplishment, Achievement, Action, Adversity, Advice, Affirmation, Ambition, Anger, Appearance, Arrogance, Aspiration, Attitude.
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“We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, and callings.”
Abraham H. Maslow
“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”
Abraham H. Maslow
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious”
Albert Einstein
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
Alexander Haiq
“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
Ayn Rand
“The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.”
Ayn Rand
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B
“The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.”
Ben Herbster
“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
Ben Jonson
“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
“The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach
beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.”
Blaine Lee
“If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible.
Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly,
like a millionaire intent on going broke.”
Brenda Francis
“The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who
are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well
meaning.”
Brian Tracy
“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical
ability, it was my mental ability.”
Bruce Jenner
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C
“Our
imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the
future.”
Charles F. Kettering
“This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given
us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.”
Charles De Montesquieu
“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Corrie Ten Boom
“Our opportunities to do good are our talents.”
Cotton Mather
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D
“Let
us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up
its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we
also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to
be remembered.”
Daniel Webster
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E
“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.”
Eric Hoffer
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F
François de la Rochefoucauld
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G
George Allen
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H
“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
Henry Van Dyke
“Greatness
lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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J
“The
ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the
imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect
clarinet, never was and never will be.”
Jack Brymer
“We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.”
Jack Schwartz
“Life is a unique combination of "want to" and "how to" and we need to give equal attention to both.”
Jim Rohn
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if
I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I
help you become that.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you
help them to become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Let us think of education as the means of developing our
greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and
dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone
and greater strength for our nation.”
John F. Kennedy
“The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”
Joseph
Conrad
“The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything.”
John W. Gardner
“True
happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”
John W. Gardner
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L
“Knowing
others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering
others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
Lao-Tzu
“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God.”
Leo Buscaglia
“I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.”
Les Brown
“I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.”
Lou Holtz
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M
“If
I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the
capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which
will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.”
Marcus Antoninus
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.”
Mark Twain
“I
believe that every person is born with talent.”
Maya Angelou
“The greatest quest in life is to reach one's potential.”
Mychal Wynn
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N
“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nitin Nohria
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O
“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
Orison Swett Marden
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P
“Good
actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in
others.”
Plato
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R
“Just
do what you do best.”
Red Auerbach
“Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.”
Robert Half
“Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.”
Robert H. Schuller
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of
becoming is the only end of life.”
Robert L. Stevenson
“The greatest crime in the world is not developing your
potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only
yourself, but the world.”
Roger Williams
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S
“If
I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power,
but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which,
ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints;
possibility never.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”
Stevie Wonder
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T
“If
we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
Thomas J. Watson
“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."
Tony Robbins
“If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.”
T. S. Eliot
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U
“People
know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.”
Unknown
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V
“The
good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your
mind you have to convince.”
Vincent Lombardi
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W
“Our
greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”
Walt Disney
“I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one
can chew and then chew it.”
William DeMille
“Joy comes from using your potential.”
Will Schultz
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Z
“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”
Zig Ziglar
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A
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Albert Einstein
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B
“For out of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh.”
Bible,
Matthew 7:34
C
“Reflect
upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of
blessing previously secured.”
Cicero
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D
“Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.”
Deepak Chopra
“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered
and kept by any man without sin.”
Desiderius
Gerhard Erasmus
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G
“If I have enough for myself and family, I am
steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that
abundance for others.”
George
Herbert
“Exuberance is better than taste.”
Gustave
Flaubert
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J
“Not
what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”
Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
“He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our
abundance.”
John Petit-Senn
“Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.”
John Selden
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M
“Abundance without discretion is plain
penury.”
Matteo Gribaldi
“In abundance prepare for scarcity.”
Mencius
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S
“He who has plenty of pepper will pepper his
cabbage.”
Syrus,
Maxims
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T
“Abundance changes the value of things.”
Terence
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W
“Abundance
is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
Wayne Dyer
“Exuberance is beauty.”
William
Blake
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B
“It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
Benjamin Franklin
D
“It's
how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.”
David Feherty
F
“It
is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done
for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages.”
Francis Wayland
G
“It
is time to break through the barriers that have held you back and
held you down for such a long time. It is time to reach out and
indelibly etch your place in history.”
Greg Hickman
H
“In
the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always
wins, not through strength but by perseverance.”
H. Jackson Brown
J
“It
is not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.”
John Wooden
V
“It
is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one
who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.”
Vince Lombardi
Z
“If
you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's
manipulative.”
Zig Ziglar
“It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines
your altitude.”
Zig Ziglar
“It's not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or
respond (positive) to the situation that's important.”
Zig Ziglar
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C
“The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.”
Carl Jung
E
“A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.”
Edward William Bok
G
“I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.”
George P. Burnham
J
“Achievement
is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of
aspiration... and expectation.”
Jack Nicklaus
“Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.”
Joe Paterno
“A failure establishes only this; that our determination to
succeed was not strong enough.”
John Christian Bovee
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the
conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a
person to love, a goal to achieve.”
John Maxwell
L
“Someone has defined genius as intensity of purpose: the ability to do, the patience to wait... Put these together and you have genius, and you have achievement.”
Leo J. Muir
M
“The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.”
Mack R. Douglas
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the
pilot.”
Michael Althsuler
“A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.”
Montaigne
O
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often
is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible
under any and all circumstances.”
Orison Swett Marden
R
“The best is yet to be.”
Robert Browning
S
“Start
by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are
doing the impossible.”
St. Francis of Assisi
W
“A
non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and
watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are
doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort,
risk, and change.”
Wayne W. Dyer
“Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to
help you do it.”
W. Clement Stone
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A
“The
path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
Anthony Robbins
“The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going
beyond them to the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke
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B
“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
Brian Tracy
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C
“By the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of never.”
Cervantes
“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.”
Charles De Gaulle
“It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.”
Christian Nevell Bovee
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D
“Just
as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are
the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.”
Dhammapada
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
Don Marquis
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F
“It
is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it
frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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G
“Persevere
and get it done.”
George Allen
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H
“The only true failure lies in failure to start.”
Harold Blake Walker
“It
takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it
wrong.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.”
Horace
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J
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”
Jacob Bronowski
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“The secret of happiness is something to do.”
John Burroughs
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M
“Presence
is more than just being there.”
Malcolm S. Forbes
“See where your own energy wants to go, not where you think it
should go. Do something because it feels right, not because it makes
sense. Follow the spiritual impulse.”
Mary Hayes-Grieco
“One single act is worth a thousand thoughts.”
Michael Oduah
“Success lies not in thinking but in action.”
Michael Oduah
“He who tries always succeeds.”
Michael Oduah
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N
“Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Just Do It.”
Nike
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O
“People
can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something,
and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the
other way?”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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R
“The
reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Just do what you do best.”
Red Auerbach
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
Robert M. Pirsig
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S
“The
secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Sally Berger
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T
“The
purpose of man is in action not thought.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.”
Tyron Edwards
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V
“It
is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -
the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.”
Vincent Lombardi
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W
“It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.”
Walter Linn
“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”
William Hazlitt
“See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained,
pursue it resolutely.”
William Shakespeare
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Z
“Put
all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”
Zig Ziglar
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II
“My strength is made perfect in weakness.”
II Corinthians
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A
“The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.”
Aeschylus, The Suppliant Maidens
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
African Proverb
“I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
Agatha Christie
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Alexander Pope
“There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.”
Alexander Smith
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
Ambrose Redmoon
“A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.”
American Proverb
“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”
André Gide
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
André Gide
“It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944
“Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, 1931
“Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.”
Antonio Porchia
“Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.”
Antonio Porchia
“Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.”
Antonio Porchia
“There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.”
Antonio Porchia
“The cold is a good counselor, but it is cold.”
Antonio Porchia
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.”
Ashleigh Brilliant
“Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? Take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you.”
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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B
“When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.”
Barbara Bloom
“You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
Barbara De Angelis
“There is no education like adversity.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.”
Bernie S. Siegel
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought
“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”
Billie Holiday
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
Billy Graham
“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
Boris Pasternak
“Problems are the price you pay for progress.”
Branch Rickey
“Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.”
Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bottom" (song)
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C
“The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”
Carl Jung
“We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.”
Charles C. West
“All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by rising above them.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens
“But ah! disasters have their use;
And
life might e'en be too sun-shiny.”
Charles
Stuart Calverley
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Cicero
“I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.”
Colette
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
Confucius
“Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.”
Coventry Patmore
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D
“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
Danish
Proverb
“I
have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come
from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles
with me!”
Dr.
Seuss
“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington
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E
“He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
Edmund Burke
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
Edwin Markham
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I bear a little more than I can bear.”
Elinor Hoyt Wylie
“Thorns
and stings
And those such things
Just make stronger
Our angel wings.”
Emme
Woodhull-Bäche
“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”
English Proverb
“When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.”
Epictetus
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
Epictetus
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
Erich Fromm
“Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.”
Euripides
“Adversity enhances this tale we call life.”
Ever Garrison
“Let your joy scream across the pain.”
Ezbeth Wilder
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F
“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
Francis Bacon
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”
Frank A. Clark
“We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.”
Frank A. Clark
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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G
“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”
Garrison Keillor
“Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.”
Garth Brooks
“Every path hath a puddle.”
George Herbert
“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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H
“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
Harry Crews
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
Harry Golden
“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”
Helen Keller
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.”
Henry Fielding
“You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place
in it, and that is the grave.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.”
Homer, Iliad
“For fate has wove the thread of life with
pain,
And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!”
Homer, Odyssey
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
Horace
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”
Horace
“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
Hugh Miller
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J
“We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on.”
J.K. Rowling
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.”
James Bryant Conant
“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
James Buckham
“You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.”
James J. Corbett
“That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.”
James K. Feibleman
“Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
James Russell Lowell
“Adversity is the foundation of virtue.”
Japanese proverb
“Soul talks to adversity.”
Jareb Teague
“Adversity collapses around a true adherent soul.”
Jareb Teague
“Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.”
Jean
Anouilh, Antigone,
1942
“Out of difficulties grow miracles.”
Jean De La Bruyere
“Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.”
Jean Paul Richter
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.”
Jewish Proverb
“Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted.”
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.”
John A. Simone, Sr.
“When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959
“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”
John Aughey
“We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.”
John H. Groberg
“Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.”
John Lithgow, in Third Rock From the Sun
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.”
John Maxwell
“A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.”
John Neal
“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
John Quincy Adams
“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck
“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”
John Updike
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
John Vance Cheney
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
Josephine Hart
“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”
Josh Billings
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K
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.”
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.”
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, 1923
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
Kenji Miyazawa
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L
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
Latin Proverb
“A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.”
Lee Drake
“When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.”
Lee Salk
“Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.”
Les Brown
“When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.”
Leslie Grossman
“The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it.”
Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1872
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Lord Byron
“There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.”
Lou Reed, "Magic and Loss"
“Watch
a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is;
for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his
heart, and the mask is torn off.”
Lucretius,
On the Nature of Things
“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”
Lucy Larcom
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M
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
M. Kathleen Casey
“Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.”
Maltbie D. Babcock
“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
Marcel Proust
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.”
Mario Fernandez
“No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.”
Martin Luther
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
“If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
Mary Engelbreit
“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”
Max Lerner
“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Michel de Montaigne
“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.”
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
“A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”
Mignon McLaughlin, The
Neurotic's Notebook,
1960
“Despair is anger
with no place to go.”
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
Morris Mandel
“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.”
Mother Teresa
“Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting, it may not be logical but it is often true.’
Mr. Spock, Star Trek
“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
Myla Kabat-Zinn
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N
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
Napoleon Hill
“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
Nelson Mandela
“There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.”
Nicolas Chamfort
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”
Norman Vincent Peale
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O
“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”
O. Henry
“Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.”
Og Mandino
“Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
Og Mandino
“Search for the seed of good in every adversity.”
Og Mandino
“May you get what you wish for.”
Old Chinese Curse
“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”
Olin Miller
“If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
“As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.”
Orson Scott Card
“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”
Oscar Wilde
“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Oscar Wilde
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P
“Depression loses its power when fresh vision pierces the darkness.”
Peter Sinclair
“We
look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our
sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest
songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
"Ode to a Sky Lark"
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R
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”
Robert Frost
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum
“But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”
Robert Herrick
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
Robert Schuller
“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.”
Roger Bannister
“The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.”
Rona Barrett
“Birds
sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in
whatever remains to them?”
Rose F. Kennedy
“Better bread with water than cake with trouble.”
Russian Proverb
“If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.”
Russian Proverb
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S
“A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.”
Sa'di (Musharrif-uddin)
“The course of true anything never does run smooth.”
Samuel Butler
“Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.”
Seneca
“Problems
are messages.”
Shakti Gawain
“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”
Socrates
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
Sophocles
“Have
the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you
bargained for.”
Stanislaus. I
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
Steven Kloves, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)
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T
“Life didn't promise to be wonderful.”
Teddy Pendergrass
“If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.”
The Houghton Line, November 1965
“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
Theodore Rubin
“The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The idea is in thyself. The impediment, too, is in thyself.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
Thomas Paine
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
Truman Capote
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U
“We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.”
Unknown
“A
bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to
make the turn.”
Unknown
“Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.”
Unknown
“It
just wouldn't be a picnic without the ants.”
Unknown
“The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.”
Unknown
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
Unknown
“The
difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
Unknown
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
Unknown
“Convert
difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine
surgeries to make you better.”
Unknown
“There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.”
Unknown
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot
do.”
Unknown
“Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.”
Unknown
“You
never know what you've got until it's gone.”
Unknown
“Determination, patience and courage are the only things needed to improve any situation.”
Unknown
“Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.”
Unknown
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V
“Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.”
Violeta Parra
“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
Virginia Woolf
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”
Voltaire
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W
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney
“You'll
never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
Walt Schmidt
“Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.”
Walter Scott
“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820
“Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.”
Welsh Proverb
“Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records.”
William A. Ward
“Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.”
William Faulkner
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.”
William Hazlitt
“It
is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.”
William Hazlitt
“Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
William James
“People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.”
William
McFee
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
William Shakespeare, Othello
“Past
and to come, seems best; things present, worse.”
William Shakespeare, Henry
IV
“Let me embrace
thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare
“I
have woven a parachute out of everything broken.”
William Stafford
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“We
shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of
inspiration and survival.”
Winston Churchill
“Criticism
may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same
function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an
unhealthy state of things.”
Winston Churchill
“A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill
“There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
Woody Hayes
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Y
“God gave burdens, also shoulders.”
Yiddish Proverb
“Bygone
troubles are good to tell.”
Yiddish Proverb
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A
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
Aesop
“It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.”
Anne Tyler
B
Brendan Francis
D
“Ask advice only of your equals.”
Danish Proverb
E
“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.”
English Proverb
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
Erica Jong
F
“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.”
G
G.K. Chesterton
“Never give advice unless asked.”
German Proverb
“Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.”
Gordon R. Dickson
H
Hannah Whitall Smith
Harry S. Truman
M
“Advice: It’s more fun to give than to receive.”
Malcolm Forbes
O
“The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”
Oscar Wilde
P
“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
Phillip K. Dick
“The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.”
Pierre Charron
“Many receive advice, few profit by it.”
Publilius Syrus
S
“Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.”
Sidney J. Harris
“In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.”
Solon
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.”
Spanish Proverb
W
“Dance like no one is watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.”
William Purkey
Z
“Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.”
Zadie Smith, her advice for young people
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C
“These repetitive words and phrases are
merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.”
Claude M. Bristol
“It's the repetition of affirmations that
leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.”
Claude M.
Bristol
D
“You must begin to think of yourself as
becoming the person you want to be.”
David Viscott
E
“First say to yourself what you would be; and
then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus
F
“We cannot always control our thoughts, but
we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious,
and we are then master of the situation.”
Florence Scovel Shinn
“You will be a failure, until you impress the
subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by
making an affirmation which “clicks.”
Florence Scovel Shinn
G
“Only one thing registers on the subconscious
mind: repetitive application -- practice. What you practice is what
you manifest.”
Grace Speare
J
“When you affirm your own rightness in the
universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as
part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be
themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not
need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.”
Jane
Roberts
M
“I figured that if I said it enough, I would
convince the world that I really was the greatest.”
Muhammad Ali
R
“Constant repetition carries conviction.”
Robert
Collier
“Any thought that is passed on to the
subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally
accepted.”
Robert
Collier
“One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.”
Robert Collier
“You must intensify and render continuous by
repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of
the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the
successful achievement or attainment of the desires.”
Robert Collier
S
“As long as you know what it is you desire,
then by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and positively,
with no ifs, buts, or maybes -- over and over again, from the minute
you arise in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and
as many times during the day as your work or activities permit, you
will be drawn to those people, places, and events that will bring
your desires to you.”
Scott Reed
“Our subconscious minds have no sense of
humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality
and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about
eventually will manifest in our lives.”
Sidney
Madwed
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A
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Aim for the highest.”
Andrew Carnegie
“A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.”
Anonymous
“We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.”
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
_______________________
B
“What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not.”
Bible, Sirach, 3:20
_______________________
C
“My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait--you can kick their ass right now.”
Cameron Diaz
“Oh, that. I just do that for the extra money, and to satisfy my male need to kill and win.”
Charlie Sheen
_______________________
D
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir Men's blood.”
David Hudson Burnham
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E
“All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.”
Earl Nightingale
“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”
Edmund Burke
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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F
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francis Bacon
_______________________
G
“It is never to late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
_______________________
H
“I told each dancer that when it was easy, it had probably been done before, probably many times. I explained that only when it was so hard that it was nearly impossible were we perhaps close to getting something unique and extraordinary.”
Howard Schatz
_______________________
J
“Act like you expect to get into the end zone.”
Joe Paterno
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
John Paul Jones
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K
“It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.”
Kenneth Tynan
“If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!”
Kevin Spacey
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L
“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't.”
Leo Burnett
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
Les Brown
_______________________
M
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
Mark Twain
“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
Michelangelo Buonarroti
_______________________
N
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”
Napoleon Hill
“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.”
Norman Vincent Peale
_______________________
O
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
Orison Swett Marden
_______________________
R
“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?”
Robert Browning
_______________________
T
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
_______________________
W
“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.”
William Shakespeare Henry VIII, III: 2
_______________________
A
“Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy.”
Aristotle
E
“He who angers you conquers you.”
Elizabeth Kenny
“My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.”
Elizabeth Kenny
“Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day; and if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God.”
Epictetus
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
Eric Hoffer
F
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”
Frederick Buechner
J
“Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
James Thurber
“The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.”
John Dryden
L
“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.”
Louisa May Alcott, Character of Marmee in Little Women
M
“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
Marcus Aurelius
T
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
Thomas A. Kempis
W
“Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.”
William Arthur Ward
“I was angry with my friend
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I
was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.”
William Blake, A Poison Tree
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Appearance
A
“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
Albert Einstein
“I'm afraid that if I look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”
Andy Warhol
“God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.”
Ani Difranco
“If everything appears to be going well, you don't know what the hell is going on.”
Anonymous
“My teeth represent me. They tried everything when I was a child to make them straight. I told my father, 'If you're going to put braces again on me, I am going to kill myself.' He said, 'Fair enough.' Now they are as crooked as my soul.”
Asia Argento
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C
“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.”