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- Enquire not what boils in another's pot.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
- John Herschel (1792 - 1871)
- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
- Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
- Arnold Bennett
- My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'
- Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
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