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- Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
- A. Lou Vickery
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
- Nicholai Velimirovic
- The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
- Gerald Burrill
- Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.
- Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee)
- You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymoore
- Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
- Louis E. Boone
- The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day (1924 - )
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
- Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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