Excerpts of Citations
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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while r...
~Jim Rohn
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
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It is better to perform one's own duties imperfectly than to master the duties of another. By fulfilling the obligations he is born with, a person never comes to grief.
~Krishna
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We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are.
~Anais Nin
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The light that accompanies eternal truth transforms us; we are not the same person as before. It brings us to the Father and the Son. His light becomes our light. We come to understand ourselves ...
~Dale E. Miller
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Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn...
~Krishna
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
~Herbert Spencer
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
~Thomas Jefferson
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.
~Krishna
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Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
~Eric Hoffer
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920)
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History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
~Leonard Louis Levinson
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
~Daniel J. Boorstin
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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~Abraham Lincoln