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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - November 27, 2025
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
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Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)  
Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Henry James (1843 - 1916)  
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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870  
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - ), "A Wreath of Roses"  
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