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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."
"It is better to correct your own faults than those of another."
"If you would create something, you must be something."
"Creativity can solve
almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality,
overcomes
everything."
"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."
"Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. "
"No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge."
"You find that you have piece of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a 100% effort that you gave -- win or lose."
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others."
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
"The best way to cheer our self up is to try and cheer someone else up."
"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."
"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."
"Prejudice: A vagrant opinion without visible means of support."
"If there is no struggle there can be no progress."
"Don't panic."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
"The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else."
"One learns by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try it."
"If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third."
"To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life."
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"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
"No one can make you inferior without your consent."
"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
"If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito."
"You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
"One hundred percent of the shots you don't take, don't go in."
"The best most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
"Counting time is not as important as making time count."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
"Popularity is a form of success that is seldom worth the things you have to do in order to attain it."
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"The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take of his shirt at a baseball game."
"If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor."
"Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to reach it."
"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."
"He who takes a stand is often wrong, but he who fails to take a stand is always wrong."
"It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared."
"To know one's self is wisdom, but to know one's neighbor is genius."
"It's O.K. to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound."
"Let him who would move the world first move himself."
"The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult."
"It's sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year."