Quote of the day

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Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Cowper

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The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
- --William Mather Lewis

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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
Charles Swindoll

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Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out.
- Duchesse d'Alencon, refusing help during a fire

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For where two or three gather together as my followers,
I am there among them.

Matthew 18:20 (New Living Translation)

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Erma Bombeck

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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- A.W. Pinero

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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
- Confucius

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The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
- Confucius

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.
- Charles Kingsley

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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
- John Steinbeck

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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- David Starr Jordan

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To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
- Janet Erskine Stuart

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The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Anonymous

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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), British theologian and classicist

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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Will Cuppy

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Norman Vincent Peale

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
- Danish proverb

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Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
- James Harvey Robinson