“Recipe for greatness-to bear up under loss; to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; to be victor over anger; to smile when tears are close; to resist disease and evil men and base instincts; to hate hate and to love love; to go on when it would seem good to die; to look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.” – Zane Grey

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“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale.” – Byron Langfeld

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“Preparation makes for leadership, and leadership is service to man.” – Douglas Southall Freeman

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“Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.” – Eric Hoffer

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“Pleasure is, and just remain, a side effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is a goal in itself.” – Viktor Frankl

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“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get on in this world are the people who look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” – George Bernard Shaw

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“Peace may cost as much as war, but it’s a better buy.” – E.C. McKenzie

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

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“Opportunity doesn’t necessarily knock on the door; it may be leaning against the wall waiting to be noticed.” – Unknown

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“One would suffer a great deal to be happy.” – Mary Wortley Montagu

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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie

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“One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears-by listening to them.” – Dean Rusk

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“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure word, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – George Eliot

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“Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel an velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who hold in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.” – Carl Sanburg (on 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth)

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“No success can compensate for failure in the home.” – David O McKay

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“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair.” – Edmund Burke

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“My definition of a leader…is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it.” – Harry S Truman

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“Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Most of the change we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.” – Robert Frost

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Elmer G Leterman

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“Look around and you’ll agree that the really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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“Live to learn, learn to love, and you’ll love to live.” – Matthew Cowley

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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” – Samuel Butler

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“Let me not look back in anger, not forward in fear, but around in awareness.” – James Thurber

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“Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.” – John Ray

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“Laughter is more contagious than tears.” –

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“Laughter crowds the tension out of our lives, brings worry to a halt, and gives the personality a chance to stretch.” –

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“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.” – William Cowper

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“Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F Kettering

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“Judge a leader by the followers.” –

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“It is the feeling of exerting effort that exhilarates us, as a grasshopper is exhilarated by jumping. a hard job, full if impediments, is thus more satisfying than an easy job.” – H L Mencken

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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Anges Repplier

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“In the pursuit of values we discover that life is within, not outside us.” – Lowell L Bennion

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“If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” – Abigail Van Buren

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“If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and what he could be.” – Goethe

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“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.” – Hermann Hesse, Demian

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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what might be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility.” – Soren Kierkegaard

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“If human beings are to progress, if we are to continue our long, brutal, heartbreaking journey out of the caves and swamps, then the way must be led by those who are not afraid of the dark.” – Pete Hamill

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