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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

William Arthur Ward

Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
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Deep Friendship Respect Truth Voice Word
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Feeling Gift Gratitude Health Light Morning Night
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
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Spring Winter
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
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Achievement Limitation Possible Thinking
A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
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Faith Fear Feeling Freedom Friendship Possible Spirit Strength True Weakness
The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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Failure Greatness Try
A friend is one with whom you are comfortable, to whom you are loyal, through whom you are blessed, and for whom you are grateful.
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Blessing Comfortable Friendship Gratitude Loyalty
A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
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Encouragement Kindness Praise
The winner asks, “May I help?” The loser asks, “Do you expect me to do that?”
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Expectation Help Myself Winner
Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.
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Answer Blessing Need Person Recognition Responsibility See
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Break Hard Time Man
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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Human Laugh Mistake Wisdom
The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
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Care Generosity Life
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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Learning Wisdom Word
Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
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Achievement Light
We are more than what we do much more than what we accomplish far more than what we possess.
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Accomplishment Worth
Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.
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Character Determination Sincere
Will someone else’s life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
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Bright Life Yourself
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’
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Gift God Gratitude Thankful Yourself
Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
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Difference Dream People Preparation
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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Achievement Dream Imagination Yourself
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
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Day Live
A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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Gratitude Heart Reveal Talk
‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner.
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Failure Lose Winner
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Faith Ocean See
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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Prayer Purpose Success Weakness World
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
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Difference Perspective Thinking

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