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"Bear in mind that humility is not timidity."
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Personal Development

"When I say "no" to some activities that I believe are ungodly, some people say I am "nobody". Yes, I agree", "no" body; that's who I am. I am a "body" that can say "no" to bad attitudes!"
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Personal Development

"Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character."
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Personal Development

"People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you."
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Personal Development

"Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind."
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Personal Development

"Lots of people use good character and moral standing as a brand name. They know it's what people like, they want people to like them, so they wear it as one would wear a quality brand shirt. Putting it on in the morning and taking it off at the end of the day. Saying all the things they know people want to hear. If they were the very last person on Earth, there would be no reason for them to be of good character, because nobody would see it."
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Personal Development

"One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."
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Personal Development

"It takes grace to be a great soul."
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Personal Development

"The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become."
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Personal Development

"People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
Travel


"Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate."
History


"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
Leadership


"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
Priority


"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
Selling


"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
Consequence


"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."
Simplicity


"He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign himself to a keener pain, a more intolerable and utter prostration."
Psychology


"It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it."
Curiosity


"Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."
Man
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