People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
ANDREW CARNEGIEWhen fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
More Andrew Carnegie Quotes
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
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TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.
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Perhaps the most tragic thing about mankind is that we are all dreaming about some magical garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are right outside today.
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.
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Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it
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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
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A man’s reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot grow mentally.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich.
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A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
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There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
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When fate hands us a lemon, let’s try to make lemonade.
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The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.
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