“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784); Poet, Essayist, Lexicographer
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“We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.”
Eleanor  Roosevelt
(1884-1962); U.S. First Lady, Diplomat, Human Rights Activist
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“We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.”
Maxwell Maltz
(1899-1975); Author
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“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless... Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”
Ayn Rand
(1905-1982); Writer, Philosopher
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“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”
Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886); Poet
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“We have it in our power to change the world over.”
Thomas Paine
Scholar, Intellectual, Writer
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“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
Orison Swett Marden
(1850-1924); Author, Publisher
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“Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.”
Benjamin Bagdikian
(born 1920); Educator, Journalist
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“A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminatingly murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.”
Freeman Dyson
(born 1923); Physicist, Author
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“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”
Saint Francis de Sales
(1567-1622); Roman Catholic Saint
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“Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.”
Henry Ward Beecher
(1813-1887); Clergyman, Social Reformer
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“The three qualities necessary for training: Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort.”
Zen Proverb

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“Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves--and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.”
Judith Viorst
(born 1931); Novelist, U.S. Newspaper Columnist
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“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4-65); Stoic Philosopher, Writer, Tutor
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“Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.”
Oliver Goldsmith
(1730-1774); Poet, Playwright, Physician
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“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
Louise  Hay
(born 1927); Holistic Healing Proponent
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“Our happiness is completely and utterly intertwined with other people: family, friends, neighbors and the woman who you hardly notice who cleans your office.”
Eric Weiner
Author, National Public Radio Correspondent
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“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb

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“Let the beauty that we love be what we do.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
(1207-1273); Persian Poet, Mystic
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“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900); Scholar, Writer, Philosopher
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“Choose love and peace will follow. Choose peace and love will follow.”
Mary Helen Doyle

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“Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.”
Bill Blackman
Founder And President Of Hearts And Minds Network
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“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862); Naturalist, Author, Philosopher
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“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882); Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Tennessee Williams
(1914-1983); Dramatist
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“Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.”
John R. Wooden
(born 1910); Basketball Coach, Author
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“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
Maya Angelou
(born 1928); Poet, Dancer, Producer, Playwright, Director, Author
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“Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.”
Buddha 

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“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.”
Bruce Barton
(1886-1967); Politician, Author, Executive
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“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what your doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out tomorrow? What am I doing? Your cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but your stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but now you'll never know. ”
Jerry Spinelli
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“I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.”
Neil Armstrong
(born 1930); First Person To Set Foot On The Moon
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“Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.”
Eric A. Burns
Eric A. Burns
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“The real community of man...is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.”
Allan Bloom
(1930-1992); Educator, Author
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“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ”
Barbara Streisand
(born 1942); Singer, Film And Theater Actress
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“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”
Paul Boese
(1668-1738); Physician, Botanist
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“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
James Baldwin
(1924-1987); Author
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“Peace at home, peace in the world.”
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
(1881-1938); Founder And 1st President Of The Republic Of Turkey
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“Be great in act, as you have been in thought.”
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616); Dramatist, Poet
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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919); 26th U.S. President
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“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.”
Leonardo  da Vinci
(1452-1519); Artist, Inventor, Scientist
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