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“How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you?”
— Harry S. Truman
“Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”
— Simon Sinek
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.”
— James Allen
“In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.”
— Bruce Lee
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”
— Steve Jobs
“Winning isn't always championships.”
— Michael Jordan
“The highest function of love is that of elevating the soul; giving it power to believe, to hope, to trust, and to see beauty in life.”
— Sarah Brown
“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“It's your life; you don't need someone's permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”
— Epictetus
“Imagination decides everything.”
— Blaise Pascal
“The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.”
— James Madison
“Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.”
— Robin Sharma
“Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”
— Mother Teresa
“Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.”
— Ralph Marston
“You are always your own best guru, your own best teacher, the answers are always inside you.”
— Sathya Sai Baba
“Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
— Socrates
“Lust, anger and greed are the three gates to self-destructive hell.”
— Bhagavad Gita

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