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My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs

Life, Time, Money

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther

God, Lost, Whatever

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy

Men, Cannot, Problems

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Fear, Care, Done

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

War, Different, Rest

Facts are stubborn things.
Ronald Reagan

Stubborn, Facts

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

Done, Joy, Soul

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond

Life, Love, Done

Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin

Energy, Conquer

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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Hippocrates

Help, Two, Habit

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Change, Nothing, Mean

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Morality, Substance

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde

Others, Away, Afraid

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Long, Idea

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Dead, Write

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.
Ray Bradbury

Enemy, Thinking, Try

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Able, Lives

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis

Time, Women, Men

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Men, Power, Government

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Great, Makes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde

Prison, Lessons, Learns

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi

Change, Live, Simple

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Why, Knowing, Admire

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

Before, Difficult, Easy

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin

Self, Hard, Three

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus

Remember, Once, Among

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Before, Expect

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

Try, Worst, Equal

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