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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.
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Joseph Farrell
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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Sir Richard Steele
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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