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Quote 3170
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3168
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3139
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3137
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3136
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3128
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3114
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3093
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3090
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successfulShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3068
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surfaceShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3060
The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much, the companies never; it is the units, the single individuals, that are the power and the might.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3036
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure headShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3005
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 3002
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2990
If I’d listened to my consumers, I’d have given them a faster horseShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2987
Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2981
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hivesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2935
Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no usesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2876
Those who never have time do leastShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2857
To be content with life, or to live merrily, rather, all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we growShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2814
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myselfShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2591
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2590
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2587
In science, we must be interested in things, not in personsShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2586
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easyShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2585
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be doneShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2582
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2506
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practiceShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2491
It is better to plan less and do moreShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2490
Do anything rather than give yourself to reverieShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2484
Difficulty is the element, and resistance the true work of a manShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2482
Practice makes perfect, so be careful what you practiceShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2427
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinatelyShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2421
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2419
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitledShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2418
I believe that the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that lineShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2415
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted somethingShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2412
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2411
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basketShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2409
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2408
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itselfShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2407
And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every departmentShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2403
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shellShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2398
All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common goodShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2395
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishmentsShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2375
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2361
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at allShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2345
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocksShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2335
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonablyShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2306
One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2243
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy itShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2117
To create a little flower is the labour of agesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2110
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really doesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2098
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of geniusShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2091
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2090
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposterShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2083
Active evil is better than passive goodShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2081
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoyShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2080
Great things are done when men and mountains meetShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 2075
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wingsShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1951
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1799
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audienceShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1747
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivableShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1737
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1703
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrongShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1647
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you outShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1646
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the betterShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1535
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.Showing Quotes on performance
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The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1510
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1490
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.Showing Quotes on performance
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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and motherShowing Quotes on performance
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain itShowing Quotes on performance
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the greatShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1193
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree doesShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1162
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1089
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 1044
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goalsShowing Quotes on performance
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The wise does at once what the fool does at lastShowing Quotes on performance
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Quality is not an act, it is a habitShowing Quotes on performance
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That's the way the cookie crumblesShowing Quotes on performance
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It's not the size of the boat, it's the motion in the ocean.Showing Quotes on performance
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Bad weeds grow tallShowing Quotes on performance
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A new broom sweeps cleanShowing Quotes on performance
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Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.Showing Quotes on performance
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Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done wellShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 522
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everythingShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 508
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 490
That government is best which governs leastShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 477
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we giveShowing Quotes on performance
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The price of greatness is responsibilityShowing Quotes on performance
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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing wellShowing Quotes on performance
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All experience is an arch to build uponShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 445
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasmShowing Quotes on performance
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courageShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 435
The sweetest of all sounds is praiseShowing Quotes on performance
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Quote 419
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.Showing Quotes on performance
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Quote 418
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.Showing Quotes on performance
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