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- There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
- Hendrik W. Van Loon
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
- Charles Buxton
- Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
- Tom Blair
- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
- Richard Bach
- At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
- Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Lord Tennyson
- Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.
- Author Unknown
- If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
- Sidney Madwed
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