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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
, psychologist
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
, statesman
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
, athlete
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
, theologian
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
, president
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
, inventor
I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
, athlete
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
, poet
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
, leader
The only way to be successful in life lies in the understanding of natural order of things.
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My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
, businessman
Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.
, celebrity
When things are perfect, that's when you need to worry most.
, actress
Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
, businessman
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
, musician
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
, writer
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
, critic
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
, statesman
There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
, actress
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
, dancer
Whatever you are, be a good one.
, president
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
, clergyman
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
, leader
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
, painter
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
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What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
, musician
People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?
, activist
Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
, businessman
No great thing is created suddenly.
, philosopher
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
, author
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
, cartoonist
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
, writer
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
, poet
You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great.
, author
The price of greatness is responsibility.
, politician
When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.
, comedian
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
, journalist
There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
, novelist
Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.
, musician
The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more things you'll have to express gratitude for.
, author
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
, philosopher
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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Things don't have to change the world to be important.
, businessman
I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
, businessman
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
, president
You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.
, athlete
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
, philosopher
All the things that are worth doing, take time.
, musician
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
, statesman
Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
, poet
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
, coach
All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
, poet
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
, athlete
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
, director
They're only truly great who are truly good.
, poet
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
, poet
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
, philosopher
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
, writer
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
, musician
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
, musician
The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
, poet
To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
, writer
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
, musician
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
, poet
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
, historian
I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
, musician
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.
, photographer
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
, actor
Greatness is a spiritual condition.
, poet
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
, writer
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
, entertainer
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.
, businesswoman
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
, actor
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness
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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
, statesman
Nothing can be done except little by little.
, poet
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
, author
It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
, actress
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
, author
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
, leader
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
, scientist
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
, musician
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
, writer
A small leak can sink a great ship
, politician
I'm not psycho... I just like psychotic things.
, singer
There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
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I hate women because they always know where things are.
, writer
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
, actor
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
, poet
No one ever became great by imitation.
, author
All great things are only a number of small things that have carefully been collected together.
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Little pots soon boil over.
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When you're working with good people it brings good things out in you.
, model
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
, author
The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.
, musician
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
, comedian
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
, poet
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
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What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
, author
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
, clergyman
I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn't.
, actor
Good things happen when you meet strangers.
, musician
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
, critic
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
, first lady
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
, journalist
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
, philosopher
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
, artist
I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
, poet
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
, artist
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
, poet
A lot of things happened when I left there, and to be fair they treated me really bad, and now I have to play against them so I don't have any feelings for them at all.
, athlete
Great men are not always wise.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
, poet
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
, critic
To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small.
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A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.
, author
I worry about the things I can affect, and the things I have no control over I move by.
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Never say never. The things that you don't plan are the best. I'm a very spontaneous person.
, actress
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
, musician
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
, comedian
Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
, businessman
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
, cartoonist
I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
, actor
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
, comedian
He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
, author
The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
, author
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?
, novelist
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
, poet
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
, scientist
If we triumph in the little things of our common hours, we are sure to triumph in our lives.
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There are two things no man will admit he cannot do well: drive and make love.
, celebrity
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
, philosopher
A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
, athlete
When you're in a situation, you can complain about it, you can feel sorry for yourself, you can do a lot of things. But how are you gonna make the situation better?
, coach
Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.
, designer
As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
, actress
I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.
, actress
I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
, mathematician
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
, philosopher
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
, author
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
, journalist
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
, leader
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
, entrepreneur
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
, author
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
, explorer
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
, philosopher
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