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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
Napoleon Hill
Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.
William Van Horne
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
Edward W. Howe
If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
Krystal Ann Kraus
Those great spiritual efforts, which the soul sometimes assays, are things on which it does not lay hold. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, for ever, but merely for an instant.
Blaise Pascal
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Pat Riley
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
Mignon McLaughlin
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Albert Einstein
There ain't no rules around here, we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Alva Edison
Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
Friedrich von Schiller
Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others.
Robert C. Edwards
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
Daisetz T. Suzuki
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved.
Reggie Miller
We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.
Curtis Strange
