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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing
Self-Confidence
Like
Self-Esteem
Builds
Accomplishment
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Solitude
Made
Rightly
More
Perfect
Fellowship
Understood
Than
Quiet
Which
Even
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Wine
Poetry
Bottled
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Thankful
Man
Eyes
Be Thankful
Open
Mercies
Fallen
Forgets
Asleep
Your
Who
Keep
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles
Life
Success
Struggle
Battle
Win
Honor
Nothing
Difficulties
Would
Would-Be
Cases
Perhaps
Most
Without
Were
Uphill
Achieved
Fought
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.
Jimmy Reid
Government
Good
Family
Democracy
Abuse Of Power
Old
Power
Practice
Good Jobs
Jobs
Kind
Corridor
Entire
Network
Through
Abuse
Also
Around
Access
Boy
Up
Dictators
Privileged
Families
Fix
Often
Frowned
Deemed
Connections
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
Andrew Carnegie
You
Brainy
Ladder
Unless
Willing
Push
He
Himself
Climb
Up
Any
Cannot
Little
Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.
Paolo Nutini
You
Change
Racism
Worst
Torture
Something
Directed
Never
Because
Forms
Asked
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith
Great
Science
Enthusiasm
Poison
Superstition
Antidote
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Today
Kindness
Daily
You
Change
Yourself
World
Kind
Make
Been
Ask
Your
The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
Saint Patrick
Enough
Greater
Said
Lord
Than
Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.
William Barclay
Love
Christ
Responsibility
Face
Sacrifice
Unless
Easter
Cross
Take
Involves
Always
His
Up
Task
Love Always
Really
Prepared
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
Happiness
Giving
Others
Consists
Serving
Serving Others
Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
Oswald Chambers
Happiness
Man
End
Chief
Holiness
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Adam Smith
Happy
Miserable
Society
Members
Part
Greater
Surely
Which
Poor
Far
Flourishing
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott
Build
Melt
Out
Statues
See
Weep
Snow
Them
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers
God
Faith
Time
Character
You
Confidence
Ways
Deliberate
Understand
May
Whose
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love
You
Giving
Give
Never
Without
Loving
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Become
Rich
Way
Put
Eggs
Then
Your
Watch
Basket
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
Thomas Campbell
Freedom
Patriotism
Tree
Seed
Blood
Patriot
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Achievement
Man
Achieve
Nothing
Every
Develop
Simply
Obstacle
Powers
Course
His
Accomplishment
Stops
Who
Strengthening
Muscle
Desires
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Nature
Human Nature
Others
Our
Benevolent
Ourselves
Constitute
Restrain
Perfection
Feel
Exercise
Affections
Selfishness
Human
Little
Much
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B. C. Forbes
Christmas
Thoughts
Giving
Think
Others
Our
Ourselves
Rather
Souls
Than
Moves
Us
Tonic
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
Mind
Beauty
Exists
Which
Them
Things
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
Gordon Ramsay
Work
Great
You
Become
Exactly
Exactly What
Chef
Chefs
Did
Want
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall
God
Great
Blessing
Will
Difficulty
Unless
Out
Troubles
He
Come
Permit
Any
Which
Plan
Us
Specific
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