Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. - Andrew Carnegie
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The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
- Og Mandino
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. - Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle
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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. - Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. - Aristotle
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. - Aristotle
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Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy. - Aristotle
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them. - Viktor Frankl
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. - Viktor Frankl
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. - Anthony Robbins
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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. - Edwin Markham
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
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