Quotes Flashcards

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“What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.”

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Thomas Sprat

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“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

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Carlos Castaneda

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“If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

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Mary Engelbreit

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“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”

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Benjamin Mays

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“Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.”

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Anonymous

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“Every artist was first an amateur.”

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.”

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Joel Brown

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“If you are content with the best you have done, you will never become the best you can be.”

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Anonymous

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“The only way you can control how you are seen is being honest all the time.”

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Tom Hanks

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“The first step to getting what you want out of life is this: Decide what you what.”

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Ben Stein

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“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”

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Richard L. Evans

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“It always seems impossible until it is done.”

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Nelson Mandela

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“Never speak of defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, and victory.”

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Norman Vincent Peale

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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

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William Shakespeare

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“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.”

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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Confucius

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“Make the decision, make it with confidence, and the world will be yours.”

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Jaren L. Davis

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“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”

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Benjamin Disraeli

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“The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.”

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G. K. Chesterton

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“Be curious, not judgmental.”

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Walt Whitman

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“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

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Kenji Miyazawa

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“A witty saying proves nothing.”

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Voltaire

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“Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.”

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Charles de Montesquieu

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“There is no passion to be found in playing small - and settling for a life that is less than the one that you are capable of living.”

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Nelson Mandela

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"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him."
Seneca
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"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
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"Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things."
Stephen R. Covey
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"Don't cry because it is over. Smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
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"Do more than dream: work."
William Arthur Ward
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"The way you perceive and react to the world is a choice."
David Foster Wallace
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"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
Colin Powell
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"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today."
James Dean
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
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"Everyday we must be striving for constant and never ending improvement."
Anthony Robbins
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"Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today."
James Dean
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
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"Everyday we must be striving for constant and never ending improvement."
Anthony Robbins
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
Roy Goodman
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"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
Grace Hopper
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
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"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."
Louis Pasteur
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"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin
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"The question should be, is it worth trying, not can it be done."
Allard Lowenstein
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
Galileo
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"Sometimes when learning comes before experience it does not make sense right away."
Richard David Bach
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"Caution until you are sure, then a little more cautious."
A saying that applies very well toward anything to do with the dealings with Aes Sedia. -Eugwene Alvere Book 7
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Do not count the days; make the days count."
Muhammad Ali
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"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
James Thurber
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein
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"Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt."
Orlando A. Battista
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"Inspiration exists, but it must find you working."
Pablo Picasso
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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty."
John D. Rockefeller
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"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
Oprah Winfrey
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
FDR
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Newt Gingrich
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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
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"He who angers you, conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
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"Make it happen."
Michael Jordan