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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,

if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,

so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.

If, in short, I am an optimist,

my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.

- Helen Keller

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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind

to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist

for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.

Be true to thyself.

- William Shakespeare

(paraphrase of Shakespeare's famous quote)

Real friendships among men are so rare

that when they occur they are famous.

- Clarence Day

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

- Isaac Newton

(discoverer of the laws of gravitation and motion,

famous mathematician, and perhaps the greatest scientist ever)

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt

Talent is God-given; be humble.

Fame is man-given; be thankful.

Conceit is self-given; be careful.

- John Wooden

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

- Henry David Thoreau

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort

when all we really need to be happy

is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Whatever your work and whatever its worth,

No matter how strong or clever,

Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,

And scoff at your best endeavor.

For the target art has a broad expanse,

And wherever you chance to hit it,

Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,

There are those who will never admit it.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I honor you, Hero, for you do not play to the crowd.

You play to your own soul.

An audience of one fills the house with its appreciation and applause.

Others follow you, and may attempt to emulate you,

but that is not why you are a hero.

Fame may smile upon you, or it may not.

The world may cheer your name, or you may be the unknown warrior

who rescued comrades in battle,

or taught a young girl how to shed tears of joy.

Whatever you did, you did not do for fame.

If you had, you would not be a Hero.

You are a Hero for your bold courageous inspired action.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Fame is morally neutral.

- Edward R. Murrow

The martyr cannot be dishonored.

Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;

every prison a more illustrious abode.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The postman wants an autograph.

The cab driver wants a picture.

The waitress wants a handshake.

Everyone wants a piece of you.

- John Lennon

The woman who can create her own job

is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

- Amelia Earhart

Great men, unknown to their generation,

have their fame among the great who have preceded them,

and all true worldly fame subsides

from their high estimate beyond the stars.

- Henry David Thoreau

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

- Billy Sunday

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had

because they didn't have the talent

or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

- Nelson Mandela

When I examine myself and my methods of thought,

I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy

has meant more to me than

any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,

and no matter how great your natural talent,

there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.

- Jack Nicklaus

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me

than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have,

instead of what you don't have.

- Woody Allen

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not;

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not;

unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Education will not;

the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

- Calvin Coolidge

Your talent is God's gift to you.

- Leo Buscaglia

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy

between the genius and his human qualities

that one has to ask oneself whether

a little less talent might not have been better.

- Carl Jung

We believe that if men have the talent

to invent new machines that put men out of work,

they have the talent to put those men back to work.

- John F. Kennedy

I have no special talent.

I am only passionately curious.

- Albert Einstein

I think this is the most extraordinary

collection of talent, of human knowledge,

that has ever been gathered at the White House -

with the possible exception of

when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

- John F. Kennedy

On His Blindness:

When I consider how my light is spent

Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,

And that one Talent which is death to hide

Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent

To serve therewith my Maker, and present

My true account, lest He returning chide,

"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"

I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent

That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need

Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best

Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state

Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed,

And post o'er land and ocean without rest;

They also serve who only stand and wait.

- John Milton (1608-1674)

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph

is for enough good men to do nothing.

- Edmund Burke

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nearly all men can stand adversity,

but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

Tolerance is the first principle of community;

it is the spirit which conserves

the best that all men think.

- Helen Keller

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men

who walked through the huts comforting others,

giving away their last piece of bread...

They offer sufficient proof that everything

can be taken from a man but one thing:

to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,

to choose one's own way.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation

and go to the grave with the song still in them.

- Henry David Thoreau

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery

as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are,

the more they are frightened.

- George S. Patton

The revelation of thought takes men

out of servitude into freedom.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking.

There is an almost universal quest

for easy answers and half-baked solutions.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.

Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

- Henry David Thoreau

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood

between sincere men of all denominations.

- Helen Keller

Who never walks save where he sees

men's tracks, makes no discoveries.

- J. G. Holland

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil.

If they would only expend the same

amount of energy loving their fellow men,

the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

- Helen Keller

The only good luck many great men ever had was

being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

- Channing Pollock

Great men or men of great gifts

you shall easily find,

but symmetrical men never.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,

but most of them pick themselves up

and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

- Winston Churchill

There are times, sir, when men of good conscience

cannot blindly follow orders.

- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Men are not prisoners of fate,

but only prisoners of their own minds.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I do not believe in a fate that

falls on men however they act;

but I do believe in a fate

that falls on them unless they act.

- The Buddha

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,

for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,

but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,

so that the injury done to a man

ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

Women must try to do things as men have tried.

When they fail their failure must be

but a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

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

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

- Robert E. Lee

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

- Chinese proverb

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men

is primarily based on mutual trust

and only secondarily on institutions

such as courts of justice and police.

- Albert Einstein

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,

but only prisoners of their own minds.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Habits age men before their time.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I look only to the good qualities of men.

Not being faultless myself,

I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste

that they hurry past it.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man becomes great exactly in the degree

in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

- Henry David Thoreau

Truth is the property of no individual

but is the treasure of all men.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many men go fishing all of their lives

without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau

Little do men perceive what solitude is,

and how far it extendeth.

For a crowd is not company,

and faces are but a gallery of pictures,

and talk but a tinkling cymbal,

where there is no love.

- Francis Bacon

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him,

that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,

and when he devotes himself helpfully

to all life that is in need of help.

- Albert Schweitzer

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.

No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

- Elbert Hubbard

How could man rejoice in victory

and delight in the slaughter of men?

- Lao Tzu

When men are easy in their circumstances,

they are naturally enemies to innovations.

- Joseph Addison

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.

Men will believe what they see.

- Henry David Thoreau

Wise men put their trust in ideas

and not in circumstances

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are disturbed not by things,

but by the view which they take of them.

- Epictetus

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