You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~ James Allen
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
~ Claude M. Bristol
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
~ Joyce Brothers
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
~ Ken Keyes
When you believe and think “I can,” you activate your motivation, commitment, confidence, concentration and excitement – all of which relate directly to achievement.
~ Jerry Lynch
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don’t count on harvesting golden delicious.
~ Bill Meyer
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us.”
~ Earl Nightingale
You are the way you are because that’s the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now.
~ Fred Smith
The more positive you are when you think and work toward your goals, the faster you achieve them.
~ Brian Tracy
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If you think you are beaten, you are:
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If, you like to win but think you can’t
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost:
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow’s will:
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are:
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
~ Anonymous
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
~ Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Mens natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them apart.
~ Confucius in Analects
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we can not break it.
~ Horace Mann
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Boldness be my friend!
Arm me, audacity, from heat to foot!
~ in Cymbeline
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Unkindness strikes a deeper wound than steel.
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As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
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The quality of mercy is not strained,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
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Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
~ in Othello, Act II, scene iii
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.
~ in Othello, Act III, scene iii
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If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.
~ in The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
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Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
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The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation.
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For where love is wanting, the beauty of all virtue is mere tinsel, is empty sound, is not worth a straw, nay more is offensive and disgusting.
~ John Calvin
Hunger I can endure; love I cannot.
~ Claudian
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
~ Anton Chekhov
Oh, what a heaven is love! Oh, what a hell!
~ Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, in The Honest Whore
Love can’t be pinned down by a definition, and is certainly something that can’t be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hub Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: “Love is not an emotion. It is a policy.”
~ Madeleine L’Engle, in A Circle of Quiet
Love is not blind – it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
~ Rabbi Julius Gordon
When love is not madness, it is not love.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying—
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
~ Dorothy Parker
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Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
~ Oliver Cromwell, to his troops at Marston Moor on July 2, 1644
There cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, in The Prince
When princes think more of luxury than of arms, they lose their state.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli, in The Prince
It is war that shapes peace, and armament that shapes war.
~ J.F.C Fuller, in Armament and History
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love for peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.
~ Paul Joseph Goebbels, in a Berlin speech on January 17, 1936
It is customary in democratic countries to deplore expenditures on armaments as conflicting with the requirements of the social services. There is at tendency to forget that the most important social service that a government can do for its people is to keep them alive and free.
~ John Slessor, in Strategy For the West
Only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed.
~ John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
The Country must have a large and efficient army, one capable of meeting the enemy abroad, or they must expect to meet him at home.
~ The Duke of Wellington, in a letter on January 28, 1811
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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
~ Adolph Hitler, in Mein Kampf
War without allies is bad enough—with allies it is Hell!
~ John Slessor, in Strategy for the West
In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother.
~ Joseph Stalin
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
~ in his Farewell Address, September 17, 1796
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Carpe diem, quam minimus credula postero. [Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.]
~ Horace
The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
~ Epicurus
The glory of God is the fully alive human being.
~ Irenaeus of Lyons
The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.
~ Amelia Earhart
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~ E. E. Cummings
It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.
~ Old Persian proverb
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. The proper function of men is to live, not exist.
~ Jack London
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
~ Henry David Thoreau, in Life Without Principle
Life begins when you do.
~ Hugh Downs
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
Happy is the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.
~ John Dryden, in Translation of Horace
You’ve got to get to the state in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
~ Arthur Ashe
You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
~ Wayne Gretzky
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
~ Chinese Proverb
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ William Jennings Bryan
In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.”
– Hank Aaron
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Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy.
~ Aeschylus
Bad neighbors count a man’s income, but not his expenses.
~ Talmud, Pesikta Rabbati, Pes., 31; Tanhuma Buber, Wayyikra, 6
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