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“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill

“Building up a dream is like building a room; the foundation must be deep, strong, firm and dependable.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Life is a linear equation in which you can't cross multiply! If you think you can do it, you can do it. If you think you can't do it, you can't do it. It's a simple formula!”
Israelmore Ayivor

"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior”
C.S. Lewis

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
John C. Maxwell

“Do your allotted work but renounce its fruit—be detached and work—have no desire for reward and work.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.”
C.S. Lewis

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”
Frank Herbert

“A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.”
Billy Graham

“I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible....except by getting off his back.”
Leo Tolstoy

“When they told him this, Ransom at last understood why mythology was what it was -- gleams of celestial strength and beauty falling on a jungle of filth and imbecility.”
C.S. Lewis

“You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.”
Zig Ziglar

“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
C.S. Lewis

“...there was apparent in all a sort of anxiety, a softening of the heart, and a consciousness of some great, unfathomable mystery being accomplished... the most solemn mystery in the world was being accomplished. Evening passed, night came on. And the feeling of suspenseand softening of the heart before the unfathomable did not wane, but grew more intense. No one slept.”
Leo Tolstoy

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