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There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost

Two, Move, Behind

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.
Will Smith

Work, Good, Job

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Thomas Paine

Long, Thinking, Wrong

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

Work, May, Laziness

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Tony Robbins

Become, Lives, Meaning

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton

Life, Friendship, True

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

Life, Change, Power

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir

Sad, Parents, Child

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Will Rogers

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard

Though, Meet, Answers

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.
George Washington

Nothing, Another, Service

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard

Work, Good, God

Labor gives birth to ideas.
Jim Rohn

Ideas, Labor, Birth

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Cesar Chavez

Life, Time, God

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar

Power, Morning, After

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
Joel Osteen

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

Nature, Face, Fifty

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine

Everything, Value, Cheap

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono

Life, Great, Hope

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.
Xun Zi

Faith, Good, Hate

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.
Plato

Silence, Shall, Assume

Your silence gives consent.
Plato

Silence, Consent

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

Before, Keep, Spite

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Everything, Before, Soul

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Rabindranath Tagore

Love, Freedom, Claim

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Night, Friends, Light

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, God, Children

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin Luther

Nothing, Else, Lord

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

God, Food, Soul

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

Pleasure, Necessary, Mankind

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