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Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha

Work, Others, Salvation

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Time, Adversity, Defeat

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

Life, Live, Nothing

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom, Human, Person

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
Thomas Merton

Love, Find, Themselves

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Truth, Person, Him

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Until, Knows

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Marcus Garvey

Nature, Great, God

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

Life, Best, Mother

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

End, Patient, Provided

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
Viktor E. Frankl

Attitude, Human, Everything

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

Gratitude, Deep, Person

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda

Teacher, Spiritual, Soul

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

Ability, Potential, Build

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

Peace, Powerful, Heart

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Happy, Wife, Two

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Good, Men, Alone

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Abraham Lincoln

Matter, Growing, Tall

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell

Knowledge, Ignorance, Realize

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, Humility, Enough

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Liberty, Around

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Approval

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
Abraham Lincoln

Earth, Military, Drink

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

Others, Rather, Tolerance

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

Life, Work, Anger

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
Abraham Lincoln

Decisions, Themselves, Reverse

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
Bob Marley

Destiny, Decide, Gotta

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Reason, Rest, Individual

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music, Everybody, Possession

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

Wise, Father, Child

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