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Attitude
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
-Charles R. Swindoll
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Knowledge or Wisdom
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
-Charles Spurgeon
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Independence
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
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Choose Wisely
And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.
-Chris Christie
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ABC Order
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
-Vince Lombardi
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Road to Success
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
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Secrets of Success
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
-Colin Powell
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Honest Politician
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
-Socrates
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Courageous Conversations
"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."
-Thomas Moore
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No Cure
Love is a serious mental disease.
-Plato
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Ingenuity
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-George S. Patton
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Live and Death
"The educated differ from the uneducated, as the living from the dead."
-Aristotle
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Family
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
-Lee Iacocca
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Money
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
-Ayn Rand
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Middle Man
If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.
-Neal Boortz
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Strength
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
-Hermann Hesse
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Travel
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination,
the kind of people they ignore at home.
-Dagobert D. Runes
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Fear
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
-- Paulo Coelho
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Let it Out
It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold ...
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Your Enemies
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Be Yourself
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings
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Never Surrender
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
-- Winston Churchill
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Long-Term
Being steadfast and immovable with our heels in tar on the Lord's side of the line is the only strategy that works long-term against Lucifer.
-- Sheri L. Dew
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Heroes and Villians
Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
-- Jack Gleeson
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Wealth
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
-- Euripides
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