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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
— George Bernard Shaw

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"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
— Maya Angelou

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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
— Isaac Newton

tags: diplomacy
16 people liked it

"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
— Mark Twain

tags: blush
106 people liked it

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
41 people liked it

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: generosity
20 people liked it

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
— Henry David Thoreau

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"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
— George S. Patton Jr.

tags: leadership
25 people liked it

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
— Mark Twain

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"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: determination, inspirational, patience
126 people liked it

"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
— William Blake

tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
90 people liked it

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
— Thomas A. Edison

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"The doors of wisdom are never shut."
— Benjamin Franklin

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"Whatever you are, be a good one."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: prize, work
30 people liked it

"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: tact, wit
85 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
880 people liked it

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
— George Washington

tags: confession, excuses, honesty, lies, lying, truth
189 people liked it

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
— Francis Bacon

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"The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none."
— Thomas Carlyle

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"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or you self-confidence."
— Robert Frost

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"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
— Henry Ford

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"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
— Henry Ford

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"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
— William Faulkner

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"When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived."
— Henry David Thoreau

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"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. "
— Walt Disney

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"Wise man talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. "
— Plato

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