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- Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway
- When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
- The Talmud
- Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
- Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
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