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- If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
- First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
- Helmuth von Moltke (1800 - 1891)
- Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
- To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.
- R. D. Hitchcock
- Above all things, reverence yourself.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
- Spanish Proverb
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