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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor." Truman Capote
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." Michelangelo
"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same." Lois McMaster Bujold
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." Lucille Ball
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have." Robert Frost
"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." Samuel Johnson
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." Dag Hammarskjöld
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion." Abraham Lincoln
"I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed." Etty Hillesum
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones." Phillips Brooks
"Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." Jacob Braude
"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." Victor Borge
"To realize one's nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for." Oscar Wilde
"Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." Ella Fitzgerald
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." Mark Twain
"I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." Hermann Hesse
"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project." Abigail Van Buren
"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail." Dorothea Brande
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time." Herbert Bayard Swope
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." Leo Tolstoy
"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." Henry Van Dyke
"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." Leon Wieseltier
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." Anna Quindlen
"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing." George Sheehan
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." Steve Jobs
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." Victoria Holt
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." Erich Fromm
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France
"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time." Winston Churchill
"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." Warren Buffett
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." Frank Lloyd Wright
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." Peter Ustinov
"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." St. Francis De Sales
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip." Will Rogers
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