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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." --Edward Gibbon

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." --Robert G. Ingersoll

"Things don't turn up in this world unless someone turns them up." --James A. Garfield

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore Roosevelt

"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." --Thomas Carlyle

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." --Elbert Hubbard

"The impossible is often the untried." --Jim Goodwin

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." --Amy Tan

"There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" --Carrie Fisher

"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." --Kathleen Norris

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." --Irving Berlin

"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated." --William James

"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time." --Duc de la Rochefoucald

"Man lives by praise; most of us would rather be hurt by flattery than helped by criticism." --Laurence J. Peter

"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present." --James Petersen

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead tocheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love." --Mariah Burton Nelson

"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." --Heinz R. Pagels

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." --James Magary

"The computer is a moron." --Peter Drucker

"Success is a journey, not a destination." --Ben Sweetland

"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested." --Helen MacInness

"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth." --Ed Howe

"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you." --Mae West

"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity." --General Douglas MacArthur

"The way to be safe is never to be secure." --Benjamin Franklin

"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." --Benjamin Lipson

"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." --Horace

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." --Beverly Sills

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." --Bob Hope

"If you see a tennis player who looks as if he's working very hard, then that means he isn't very good." --Helen Wills Moody
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