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“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
— Niccolo Machiavelli
“It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.”
— Ralph Marston
“For your life to be great, your faith must be bigger than your fear.”
— Robin Sharma
“Winners forget they're in a race, they just love to run.”
— Simon Wilder
“I had a cat once, but every time I tried to give him a bath, the fur stuck to my tongue.”
— Murdock
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
— Albert Einstein
“The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.”
— Plato
“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.”
— Unknown
“Do it with passion, or not at all.”
— Rosa Nouchette Carey
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dream.”
— Les Brown
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
— Jules Verne
“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.”
— Samuel Butler
“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
— Tony Blair
“Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do.”
— John Carmack
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
— Jim Rohn
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Trust is built and maintained by many small actions over time.”
— Lolly Daskal
“From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.”
— Benjamin Franklin

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