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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When we treat man as

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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Margaret Drabble

Margaret Drabble

When nothing is sure, everything

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We rather confess our moral

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli

NEVER be surprised by your

NEVER be surprised by your own success!
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Mia Hamm

Mia Hamm

The power of the mind

The power of the mind is an incredible thing, one that can never be underestimated.
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John Kenneth Galbraith

John Kenneth Galbraith

In all life one should

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
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Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli

Decide what you want, create

Decide what you want, create a map, and get your ass out there!"
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Certain books seem to be

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Better by far you should

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

The reward for doing right

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

No man learns to know

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli

Your actions should be so

Your actions should be so dedicated that no one should have to ask you what you want."
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Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Moderation is a virtue only

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

If the belief [in Christianity]

If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
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Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli

Today stretches ahead of you

Today stretches ahead of you waiting to be shaped. You are the sculptor who gets to do the shaping. What today will be like is up to you. "
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have observed that as

I have observed that as long as a man lives and exerts himself he can always find food and raiment, though, it may be, not of the choicest description.
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Natalie Goldberg

Natalie Goldberg

If you are not afraid

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
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Edward De Bono

Edward De Bono

A memory is what is

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Most men, even the most

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
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Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli

Judging is preventing us from

Judging is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.
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Josie Bisset

Josie Bisset

Dreams come a size too

Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them.
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Anonymous

Anonymous

When money talks, nobody notices

When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses.
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Steve Maraboli

Steve Maraboli

Look around you. Everything changes.

Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing… changing. You were not put on this earth to remain stagnant."
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I put no account on

I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
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