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“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
— Henry Ford
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
— Aristotle
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
— Edgar Degas
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
— Julie Andrews
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”
— William Shakespeare
“If you are ever the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.”
— C. Sean McGee
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
— John Updike
“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?”
— John Wooden
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”
— Unknown
“Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand.”
— Bob Proctor
“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
— Harry Golden
““And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.””
— John Steinbeck
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
“When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.”
— Les Brown
“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. ”
— Steve Jobs
“True sacrifice is joy - giving up the thing you love for something greater or someone else.”
— Veronica Roth
“The first sign of faith is love. The message of the holy, divine Manifestations is love; the phenomena of creation are based upon love; the radiance of the world is due to love; the well-being and happiness of the world depend upon it. Therefore, I admonish you that you must strive throughout the human world to diffuse the light of love...”
— Abdu'l-Baha
“All men are equal before fish.”
— Herbert Hoover
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.”
— Tony Robbins
“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”
— H. L. Mencken

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