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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

Friendship, School, Learned

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

Happiness, Future, Design

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

Change, Attitude

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Happiness, Made, Ready

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill

Life, Good, Means

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Morning

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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Thomas Merton

Life, Soul, Moment

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Helen Keller

Everything, Cannot, Refuse

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon

God, Jesus, Old

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
Michael Jordan

Strength, Attitude, Turn

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Family

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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Men, Wise, Speak

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yourself, Greatest, Trying

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama

Saying, Sometimes, Silent

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs

Life, Trust, Future

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

Failure, Trying, Everyone

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

Learn, Cat, Tail

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius

Country, Poverty, Wealth

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Life, Through, Learned

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

Music, Lie, Happen

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy

Attitude, Forward, Gratitude

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama

Life, Yourself, True

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee

Goal, Often, Simply

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

Pain, May, Place

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

Put, Ending, Sentence

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel

Music, Humanity, Healing

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

Love, Success, Failure

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