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- Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
- Joseph Farrell
- If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- 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
- It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
- Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
- Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
- You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
- James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
- Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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