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"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
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"Self-discipline is nothing but self-consciousness."

"To truly be better than your past self, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours and you must invest so much time building yourself up."

"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."

"Only a changed person can live according to the law."

"Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in."

"The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success."

"If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose."

"The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations."

"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."

"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."
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"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."


"She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it."


"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."


"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."


"Though children can accept adults as adults, adults can never accept children as anything but adults too."


"Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot."


"When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get."


"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."
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