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“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence”
Abraham Lincoln

“I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.”
Thomas Jefferson

“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”
Napoleon Hill

“He felt himself, and did not want to be anyone else. All he wanted now was to be better than before.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!”
Leo Tolstoy

“She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.”
Leo Tolstoy

“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character”
Thomas Jefferson

“To claim that the supernatural and irrational form the basic characteristics of religion is much the same as noticing only the rotten apples and then claiming that the basic features of the fruit named apple are a flaccid bitterness and a harmful effect produced in the stomach.”
Leo Tolstoy

“When you do well, you think it’s worth it. When you sacrifice so much and you finally do well, it feels really good.”
John C. Maxwell

“You cannot enjoy others until you  enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”
John C. Maxwell

“We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are.
John C. Maxwell

“What I know for sure: There is no need to struggle with your body when you can make a loving and grateful peace with it.”
Oprah Winfrey

“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.”
C.S. Lewis

“No one ever said, “This isn’t the way normal people live.” Again, I think it was the sense of family unity, strengthened by the Averys, that kept me from being too concerned about the quality of our life in Boston.”
Ben Carson

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