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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Time, Everything, Give

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

Success, Money, Morning

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Great, Men, Live

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics, Mean, Sometimes

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate

Time, Year, Resolution

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan

Life, Work, Mind

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter, Laugh, Less

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.
Che Guevara

Care, Long, Someone

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
James Russell Lowell

God, Morning, Done

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison

Work, Good, End

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller

Good, Great, Give

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington

Yourself, Someone, Else

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

Life, Home, Nice

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

Small, Makes, Himself

I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Failure, Trying, Challenge

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

Book, Thinking, Through

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
Tupac Shakur

Bad, Rather, Cold

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rain, Down, Rather

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

Nice, Down, Meet

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Great, Men

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Education, Personal

It's not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali

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

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare

Help, Enough, After

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Thomas Paine

Power, Human, Christian

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men, History, Die

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

Others, Wonderful, Whole

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