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Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
Helen Hayes

Through, Problem, Everybody

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert Schweitzer

Truth, True, Simple

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
Elizabeth Edwards

Time, Positive, Attitude

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
Carroll O'Connor

Sad, Job, Playing

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Him, Try, Rather

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
Louisa May Alcott

Life, Power, True

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.
Andy Rooney

Life, Living, Old

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.
Dido Armstrong

Time, End, Single

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Mother, Terrible

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung

Life, Trouble, Nobody

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell

Good, Best, Together

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Care, Enough, Lived

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind, Learned, Difficulty

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Short, Patterns, Follows

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Good, Great, Power

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Reason, Since

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
William Arthur Ward

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats

Heart, May, Sacrifice

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

Time, Today, Someone

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem

Women, Men, Emotional

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle

May, Winter, Summer

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.
Richard J. Codey

Problems, Away, Illness

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
Steven Biko

Life, Time, Positive

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Live, Forget, Around

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.
Robert Brault

Thought, Dead, Optimism

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters

Happiness, Happy, Struggle

I've never been one to look up the ladder. I've always looked down the ladder. As long as there's one guy down there, I'm fine.
Ron White

Down, Guy, Fine

I meet with people all day long.
Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Society, Husband

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