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Asselta - Opening and Fall Quotes - Midterm Flashcards

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“Seek not to understand that you may believe, but seek to believe that you may understand.”

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St. Augustine

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“More things are wrought by prayer than this world will ever know.”

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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“It all comes down to the big D: D for discipline.”

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Mrs. Asselta

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“We are what we repeatedly do, excellence then is a habit.”

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Aristotle

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“Good lives are made so by discipline.”

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Sophocles

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“Knowledge makes a bloody entry.”

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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“I didn’t do the best possible job but I did the best that I could do and therefore I couldn’t have done any better.”

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Ronald Reagan

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8
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.”It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves”

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William Shakespeare

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9
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“Know thyself.”

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Sophocles

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10
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“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

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Aristotle

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“I’ve never known a man worth his salt, who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for, needs the discipline.”

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Vince Lombardi

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“The way of a sluggard is hemmed in as with thorns. The path of the diligent, a highway.”

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Proverbs

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“Criticize a conceited man, and he will hate you for it. Criticize a wise man, and he will respect you for it.”

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Proverbs

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“Gratitude is not only the parent of all virtues, it is greatest of all virtues.”

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Cicero

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15
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One of the marvels of personality is its resistance to prediction. One man’s paralyzing trauma is another man’s invitation to take control of his life; one women’s grounds for insanity is another women’s gaud to a dramatic shaping of oneself.”

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Rosellen Brown

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16
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“A man is three persons: the person he thinks he is, the person others think he is, and the person God knows he is.”

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Samuel Brown - First Lexicon (Dictionary)

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17
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“Nothing great was ever achieved without without enthusiasm.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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18
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“Speak not for the fool’s hearing, he will despise the wisdom of your words.”

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Proverbs

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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

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Henry Ford

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20
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“Man’s greatest weakness is self-doubt.”

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Alexander Pope

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"”Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”

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John Keats

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22
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“Art imitates life.”

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John Keats

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23
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“Men are monsters of their own fate.”

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William Shakespeare

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

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Helen Keller

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“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”

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Mark Twain

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26
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“Careful of your enemies, they will point out your faults.”

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27
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“Only the truly disciplined person is free.”

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28
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“Preach the Gospel, use words if necessary.”

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St. Francis

29
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“If it is to be, it is up to me.”

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30
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“If you lack confidence, pretend, and it will come.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

31
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“There is no success without leadership.”

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Sophocles

32
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“There is no greater courage than to bear defeat without giving up.”

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33
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“Life is not easy, it calls for spartan endurance.”

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Tennessee Williams

34
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“This thing we call failure, is not falling down, but the staying down.”

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35
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“What’s difficult, we do it once. The impossible takes a little longer.”

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Herman Wonk

36
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“Life ends, art is forever.”

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John Keats

37
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“Experience the most brutal of teachers, but you learn… do you learn.”

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C.S. Lewis

38
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“I must be cruel, only to be kind.”

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William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

39
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“A person is as big as the thing that makes them angry.”

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Winston Churchill

40
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“Do the best you can, and pray God will give you the strength to do what you cannot.”

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St. Augustine

41
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“The eyes are windows to the soul.”

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John Donne

42
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“Things are never so bad that there isn’t a solution, or the solution is accepting the problem.”

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Winston Churchill

43
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“Do the thing you fear, and death of fear is certain.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

44
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“Procrastination is the thief of time.”

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Martin Luther King

45
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“If you think you can’t, you won’t.”

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James Allen

46
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“To know even one life has been made easier because you have lived, this is success.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

47
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“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”

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Albert Einstein

48
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“Insanity is repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result”

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Albert Einstein

49
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“Self-pity is the most unattractive quality on stage or off, it is struggle or survival.”

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The Dresser - Movie

50
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“Happiest people do not get the best of everything, they make the best off everything.”

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51
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“The only failure is the failure to try.”

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52
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“To know you don’t know, is the beginning of wisdom.”

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Plato

53
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“Our greatest glory is not never falling, but in rising overtime you fall.”

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Confucius

54
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“Experience is a hard teacher: she gives the tests first, and lessons afterwards.”

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C.S. Lewis

55
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“Expect nothing, be ready for anything”

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56
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“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

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de Correntes

57
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“Circumstances don’t make the man, they reveal him.”

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James Allen

58
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“If you can change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

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59
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

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Winston Churchill

60
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“If you want to see the true measure of a man, see how he treats his inferiors.”

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J.K. Rowling

61
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“In the confrontation between the rock and the stream, the stream always wins, not through strength, but through persistence.”

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Buddha

62
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“We make a living by what we do, we make a life by what we give.”

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Winston Churchill

63
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“It’s not what you get that matters, but what you give.”

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64
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‘Remember this hour of this day, this is the most important hour and day of this lifetime. The past cannot be altered, but this time determines eternity.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

65
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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets, even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause and say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.’”

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