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- No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
- Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
- A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
- Michelangelo
- Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what he would be capable of with the world looking on.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as can help him in making his fortune.
- Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
- Every man who refuses to accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
- Nietzsche
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.
- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
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