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• The real mark of your character comes from not how you react to your successes, of which I know there will be many. How you react to your failures, of which there will be, if you are bold, a number in your lifetime.

  Daniel Goldin

  Real, Failure, Character

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• When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

  Sam Levenson

  Mother, Home, Assessment

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• Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Moving, Let It Go, Done

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

  Joan Collins

  Hollywood, Body, Today

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• It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

  Moses Finley

  Men, History, Tradition

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• [Airline food] is the tiniest food I've ever seen in my entire life. Any kind of meat that you get - chicken, steak, anything - has grill marks on each side, like somehow we'll actually believe there's an open-flame grill in the front of the plane.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Travel, Believe, Flames

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• The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

  Samuel Parris

  Golf, Differences, Oblivion

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• It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

  Aristotle

  Failure, Missing, Way

  Nichomachean Ethics (c. 330 b.c.).

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• Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Mind, Haste

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.174

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• Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Integrity, Real, Truthfulness

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.28, Jaico Publishing House

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• Of all insults, the temporary condescension of a master to a slave is the most outrageous and galling. That potentate who most condescends, mark him well; for that potentate, if occasion come, will prove your uttermost tyrant.

  Herman Melville

  Tyrants, Insult, Slave

  Herman Melville (1970). “White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war”, p.276, Northwestern University Press

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• The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Creativity, Saint

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.58, Discovery House

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• The mark of an honest man... is that he means what he says and knows what he means.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Honest

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.218, Penguin

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• There is no grace more excellent than faith; no sin more execrable and abominable then unbelief. Faith is the saving grace and unbelief the damning sin. (Mark 16:16) ... Before Christ can be received, the heart must be emptied and opened: but men's heart's are full of self-righteousn ess and vain confidence (Rom 10:3).

  John Flavel

  Heart, Men, Self

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• There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

  Max Lucado

  Maturity, Differences, Excellence

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white paper. These marks are my thoughts, and although I do not know who you are reading this...the lines of our lives have intersected. For the length of these few sentences, we meet here.
  
  It is no accident that you are reading this. This moment has been waiting for you, I have been waiting for you. Remember me.

  Duane Michals

  Reading, White, Waiting

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• The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

  James A. Garfield

  College, Students, Ends

  Remark at Alumni Dinner in Delmonico's Restaurant, New York, December 28, 1871.

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• Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

  Kinky Friedman

  Tests, Students, Knows

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• It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.

  George Jean Nathan

  Memories, Philosophy, Self Esteem

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• To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Passion, Forgiving, Unshakable

  Eknath Easwaran (2016). “Passage Meditation – A Complete Spiritual Practice: Train Your Mind and Find a Life that Fulfills”, p.125, Nilgiri Press

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• Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Four, Repentance, Acknowledgement

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• Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Integrity, Successful, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.147, Vivekananda Kendra

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• The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Fall, Tree

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.108, Psychology Press

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• I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

  Thierry Henry

  Ideas, Paradise, Obsessed

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• But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

  Banksy

  Artist, Self, Views

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