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“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.”
— Steve Jobs
“Leadership is solving problems”
— Colin Powell
“The best way to find yourself is to get lost in the process of discovering what you value most in life.”
— Jessica Lanyado
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
— Voltaire
“可得解脱处,唯山水间和神佛前。”
— IKON
“You have the ability, now apply yourself.”
— Benjamin Mays
“You can be comfortable or courageous, but you cannot be both.”
— Anonymous
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
— Buddha
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Go as far as you can see and you will see further. ”
— Zig Ziglar
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
— Aristotle
“The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.”
— Vince Lombardi
“After all is said and done - more is said than done.”
— Anonymous
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
— Albert Einstein
“Be royal in your own fashion: act like a king to be treated like one.”
— Robert Greene
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. ”
— Martin Luther
“Brave words. I've heard them before, from thousands of species across thousands of worlds, since long before you were created. But, now they are all Borg.”
— The Borg Queen
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
— G.I. Gurdjieff
“Those who attain the middle Dominate the whole.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.”
— Lao Tzu
“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”
— Lily Tomlin
“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”
— Khalil Gibran

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