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Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Grantland Rice

Good, Yourself, Daily

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill

Success, Mind, Person

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

Children, After, Sick

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix

Saying, Call, Heavy

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.
Barack Obama

Home, Care, Fight

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
Aldous Huxley

Between, Perception, Unknown

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix

Call, Heavy, Gas

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.
Charlie Sheen

Work, Try, Else

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Time, Great

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

Good, Depression, Artist

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal

Human, Loved, Divine

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

Trust, Men, Bad

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
e. e. cummings

Rain, Long, Away

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

Capable, Reasoning, Hardly

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
B. R. Ambedkar

History, Victory, Themselves

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Plato

Great, Wealth, Comforter

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers

Money, Women, Two

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

Great, Successful, Words

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

Live, Him, Learned

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire

God, Whether, Pleasure

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein

Food, Science, Him

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, Health, True

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
Thomas Merton

Time, Give, Seek

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
W. Clement Stone

Success, Time, Great

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
Oliver Herford

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.
Black Elk

Peace, Men, True

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

Heart, Past, Book

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
William James

Means, Simply, Conscious

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell

Opinion, Progress, Whether

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
Richard Bach

Truth, True, Stop

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