The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself.
– Garth Brooks

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
– Julia Child

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
– Charles M. Schwab

Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
– Benjamin Spock

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
– Harriet Tubman

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.
– Tommy Lasorda

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who has not served cannot command.
– John Florio

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
– Charles de Gaulle

Strategic advantage lies in the leverage of knowledge.
– Robert Buckman

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction.
– Warren Buffett

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.
– J. Paul Getty

Freedom lies in being bold.
– Robert Frost

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates.
– Thomas Szasz

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
– Leon Suenens

No great performance ever came from holding back.
– Don Greene

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.
– Ira Eaker

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
– Bruce Barton

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
– John Churton Collins

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
– Francis Chichester

One should count each day a separate life.
– Seneca

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
– Oscar Wilde

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
– Lyndon B. Johnson

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
– Thomas Jones

What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
– Havelock Ellis

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
– Jane Austen

Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
– Rabbi Julius Gordon

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
– Ben Hecht

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
– Albert Einstein

Silence is the virtue of fools.
– Sir Francis Bacon

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
– Phyllis Diller

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
– Jules Renard

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have fun.’
– Phillip Lopate

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
– G.K. Chesterton

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
– Aldous Huxley

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