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One of my special favorites: "Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."—Martin Luther King Jr.
One of my special favorites: "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."—Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
One of my special favorites: "Silence is the severest criticism."—Charles Buxton
One of my special favorites: "No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."—Isaac Asimov
One of my special favorites: "If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep."—Dale Carnegie
One of my special favorites: "Almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."—Steve Jobs
One of my special favorites: "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."—Thomas Jefferson
One of my special favorites: "Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral."—Robert Orben
One of my special favorites: "Dressing immodestly is like rolling around in manure—you get a lot of attention, mostly from pigs and flies."
One of my special favorites: "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."—Thomas Edison
One of my special favorites: "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass—it's about learning to dance in the rain!"
One of my special favorites: "People will inspire those who inspire them, not those who intimidate them."
One of my special favorites: "Do what you need to do when you need to do it. Then someday, you'll be able to do what you want to do when you want to do it."
One of my special favorites: "Great opportunities are cleverly disguised as impossible situations."—Unknown
One of my special favorites: "Sticks and stones are hard on bones / aimed with angry art / Words can sting like anything, / but silence breaks the heart"—Phyllis McGenlee
One of my special favorites: "A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury."—Christopher Paolini
One of my special favorites: "Be bold. Be brilliant. Be brief."—James Loveland
One of my special favorites: "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."—Orlando A. Battista
One of my special favorites: "Stop focusing so much on the destination; it's the journey that's the fun part."
One of my special favorites: "What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have."—An old German motto from Corrie Ten Boom's book The Hiding Place.
One of my special favorites: "Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."—Shakespeare
One of my special favorites: "The past is behind; learn from it. The future is ahead; prepare for it. The present is here; live in it."—Thomas S. Monson
One of my special favorites: "The highest rewards for man's toil is not what he gets from it, but what he becomes by it."
One of my special favorites: "An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal you are trying to reach."
One of my special favorites: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition by mediocre minds."—Albert Einstein
One of my special favorites: "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."—Mark Twain
One of my special favorites: "Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend."—Diogenes
One of my special favorites: "There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor."—Pablo Casols
One of my special favorites: "The man who makes no mistakes, often makes nothing at all!"
One of my special favorites: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."—Edmund Burke
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