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- You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
- Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
- It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
- John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
- Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
- Dan Parker
- Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
- Thomas Guthrie
- Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
- Baltasar Gracian
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
- Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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