"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

George Eliot, British Author

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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

Fulton J. Sheen, American Clergyman

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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

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"It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn."

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"A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results."

"The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to."

"A shady business never yields a sunny life."

"The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure."

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."

"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."

"He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly."

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."