“ Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows. ”
- Helen Nielsen- Copy
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“ Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
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“ Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous. ”
- Margaret Fontey- Copy
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“ There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. ”
- Omar Khayyam- Copy
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“ The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion. ”
- Nadia Boulanger- Copy
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“ I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open. ”
- Arnold H. Glasgow- Copy
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“ I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''. ”
- Charles F. Kettering- Copy
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“ Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. ”
- Kathleen Norris- Copy
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“ The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action. ”
- Michael Hanson- Copy
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“ Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
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“ Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity — an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
- 2.8K
“ A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself. ”
- Alexander Graham Bell- Copy
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