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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Success, Fear, Failure

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Work, Power, Whatever

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington

Happy, May, Find

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Nothing, Person, Poverty

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Friendship, Sunshine

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein

Worry, Mine, Assure

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art, Someone, Acceptance

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Society, Born, White

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Happiness, Jealousy

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou

Story, Inside, Agony

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
George MacDonald

Loved, Compliment, Trusted

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Control, Laws, Conduct

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson

Power, Hope, Wisdom

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Failure, Adversity, Heartache

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Less, Won, General

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

Short, High, Lies

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill

Thought, Europe, Bore

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge, Ignorance, Increases

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley

Best, Positive, Attitude

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

Men, Live, Country

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin

Learned, Ignorant, Blockhead

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

Small, Return, Favors

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan

Today, Country, After

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Life, Power, Through

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Beauty, Personal, Letter

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

Through, Eyes, Place

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Hate, Long, Value

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu

Cannot, Sun, Less

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Living, Getting

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Women, Men

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