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“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
Pablo Picasso
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Maya Angelou
“Success is an iceberg.”
— Unknown
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.”
— Edwin Land
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde
“20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results.”
Brian Tracy
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
Victor Hugo
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.”
Brian Tracy
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is passion that makes man live; wisdom makes one only last.”
Nicolas Chamfort
“A very little key will open a very heavy door.”
Charles Dickens
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.”
Peter Drucker
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
— Carl Bard
“Friendship takes time and energy if it's going to work.”
Betty White
“Some of your greatest lessons come from your darkest moments.”
— Roger Lee
“It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.”
Gary Keller
“Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.”
— David Wilkerson
“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
Oscar Wilde
“Information changes your mind. Action changes your circumstances.”
Jack Butcher
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
Charles Dickens
“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage is found in unlikely places.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“You're never too old for anything.”
Betty White

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