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- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
- Johann Von Schiller
- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
- Richard Bach
- The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman.
- Author Unknown
- Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Lord Tennyson
- Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
- Author Unknown
- A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
- Mark Rutherford
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