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- Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
- Baltasar Gracian
- If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
- Ellen Metcalf
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.
- Anonymous
- When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese Proverb
- He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
- Kathleen Norris
- You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Irish Proverb
- Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
- Paxton Hood
- Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Austin Phelps
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