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“Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” – Oscar Wilde

“As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,
so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.” – Marian Anderson

“Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them,
or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.” – Jesse Herman Holmes

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” – Phillips Brooks

“Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.” – Brendan Francis

“No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power,
no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes,
for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.” – Minot Simons

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose —
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley

“Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” – Ralph Blum

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.
In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” – Oscar Wilde

“Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.” – Julie Andrews

“Perseverance is a great element of success.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many”
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

“The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are;
first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.” – Thomas Edison

“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery,
guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson