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Personal-development Quotes
"Failures should never become hindrance in the learning process. Instead, we must learn from our failures to strive and overcome challenges in our lives."
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"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
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"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
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"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""
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"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."
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"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."
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"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
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"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."
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"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."
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"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price."
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"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
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"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."
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"Ambition is the ignition of a car we call life."
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"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
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"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"I believe the real reason we pursue anything in life is not for the thing itself, but for who we become on the way to its accomplishment. We strive to accomplish things in the attempt to mold ourselves. The greatest benefits Jiu Jitsu will have in your life will have nothing to do with Jiu Jitsu. It is this simple understanding that allows me to persist in my study. Even on the rare days when I may not have a burning desire to practice Jiu Jitsu, I am reminded that my practicing Jiu Jitsu is more accurately my practicing to become a better human being. The lessons I learn on the mat will serve me in every area of life-- personal development, relationships, business, and the like."
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"Appreciation is a better motivator than pain."
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"I am talking about misery and all of its implications."
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"No matter at what speed I move forward, I am never satisfied. If today I run at a speed of 100, I keep an aim of running at 200. World has gone far ahead and we need to match that level."
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"I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present."
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"Always try to be someone of value than someone famous."
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"Anyone can criticize. It is important to be a person who can appreciate and show the way to betterment."
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"The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking", as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down."
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"I've matured since joining United, on and off the field."
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"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."
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