You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Subject:
Life
American First Lady Quotes
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Themosticles said "The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you
Author:
Plutarch
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Character
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Intellect
Mankind
Morality
Work: What Is Man? (1906)
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Enemy
Desires
Courage
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
Subject:
Character
Judgment
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There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.
Author:
Mark Twain
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
Honesty
Corrupt
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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
War
Peace
Virtue
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.
Author:
William Shakespeare
Subject:
Evil
Good
Quotes from Plays
Work: "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Effort
Perseverance
American Presidential Quotes
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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Charity
Giving
British Prime Minister Quotes
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Men
Women
Relationship
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Fear
War
Nation
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Revenge
Hate
Coward
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Belief
American Presidential Quotes
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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Author:
John Wayne
Subject:
Courage
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Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
Subject:
Education
Children
Books
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Happiness
Life
Nature
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