The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWithout ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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