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- It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- Hesiod (~800 BC)
- Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- 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.
- Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD)
- Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
- Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- Dr. David M. Burns
- The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
- Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
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