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Robert Louis Stephenson |
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A friend is a gift you give yourself. |
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. |
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I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. |
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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. |
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |
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Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends. |
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Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. |
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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. |
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. |
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Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. |
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So long as we love we serve so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indespensable and no man is useless while he has a friend. |
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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. |
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The best things in life are nearest Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life. |
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The cruelest lies are often told in silence. |
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish. |
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children who has filled his niche and accomplished his task who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had. |
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
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There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. |
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. |
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. |
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. |
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. |
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend. |
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. |
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You cannot run away from a weakness you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand. |
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. |
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Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. |
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Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. |
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
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Author: Martin Luther King Jr
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
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Author: Rupert Murdoch
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
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Author: Pablo Picasso
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. |
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Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. |
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. |
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