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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
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Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
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Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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