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- Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.
- Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
- Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
- Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
- Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
- Dale Carnegie
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser
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