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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Suffering
Claudius

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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
Pessimism
Bill Clinton

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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Song and Singing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves.
Environment
Robert Collier

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What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others.
Superiority
Confucius

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The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
Reason
Cyril Connolly

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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Conrad

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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Honor
Calvin Coolidge

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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
Property
Calvin Coolidge

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There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Quality
Bill Cosby

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Not the one who has many ideas, but the one who has a single conviction may become a great person.
Ideas
Cotvos

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Success
Walter Cronkite

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The personal appropriation of clich?s is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
Travel and Tourism
Serge Daney

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A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
Greatness
Benjamin Disraeli

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A person's fate is their own temper.
Temperament
Benjamin Disraeli

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Agreement
Benjamin Disraeli

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Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
Politicians and Politics
Benjamin Disraeli

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Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
Mission
Mourning Dove

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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
Right and Rightness
Peter F. Drucker

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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Loneliness
Wayne Dyer

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There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
Charm
Henry Van Dyke

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No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Dreams
Marian Wright Edelman

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Mistakes
Albert Einstein

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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Praise
Albert Einstein

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Arts and Artists
T. S. Eliot

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun