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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Lonely, Struggle

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein

Destiny, Rather, Individual

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, Measure, Bottom

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Him, Heels

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

Past, Act, Quiet

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

Head, Hold, Eye

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Path, Choose

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss

Try, Left, Thinks

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

Morning, School, True

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, Lies, Aim

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

Life, God, Help

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
Eileen Caddy

Good, Future, Nothing

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

School, After, Secret

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

Peace, May, Price

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Bryant H. McGill

Selfish, Liars, Often

Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Path, Present

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Person, Young, Afraid

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

Time, Try, Cannot

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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
Wilma Rudolph

Sun, Difficult, Trouble

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Live, Standards

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
Aristotle Onassis

Hope, Free, Learn

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
William Bartram

Great, Gratitude, Blessings

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson

Stop, Goals, Till

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.
Paul Bryant

Yourself, Victory, Pride

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success, Top, Test

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn Monroe

School, Remember, Friends

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