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• Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Prayer

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• Men and women have strengths that complement each other.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Men And Women, Having Strength

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• Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Atheist, Heart, Men

  "Opus Maximum".

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• To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

  Pierre Corneille

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

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• When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Home, Character

  "Our Children and the Crisis in Education" by Stephen R. Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

  Charles Dickens

  Encouraging, Dark, Light

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.648, Pan Macmillan

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  Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Patience, Able, Being Human

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer". www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Chains That Bind, Broken, Spiders

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

  Elizabeth I

  Reality, Hands, Ambitious

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• Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Success, Being Strong

  "The American Scholar". Ralph Waldo Emerson's Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, emersoncentral.com. August 31, 1837.

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• I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Strong, Heart, Diversity

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• I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Courage, Umpires, Tests

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Leadership, Men, Ideas

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• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Death, Spiritual, Atheist

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Leadership, Guitar, Design

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• A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

  Indira Gandhi

  Freedom, Debt, Republic

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Indira Gandhiʾs Legacy to the Indian Nation: Economic Development and the Public Sector”

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• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Inspirational, Leadership, Strong

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 30 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Happiness, Natural Talent

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• As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Meaningful, Heart, Character

  Letter to Theo, from Amsterdam, on May 30, 1877. "Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh" by Irving Stone and Jean Stone, p. 26, 1995.

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• The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Law, Curves, Soul

  The Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 1964.

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  To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Heart, Real Friends

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.29, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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