"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

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"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."

Germany Kent, Roman Soldier

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"Do not indulge your weaknesses!"

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"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"

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"The first person you have to conquer is you. This is because when at last you win over million people, the first person to bring you down could be you. Discipline yourself!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

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"There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul."

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"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."

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"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

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"Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed."

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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

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"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

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"The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are."

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"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."

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"It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."

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