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I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifet...

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I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all type...

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There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace....Mortals will some day assert the...

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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know...

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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The yout...

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Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.

If we can cease envisaging ourselves as metaphorical foetuses, and substitute the image of a newborn...

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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

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We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable...

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The relentless act of invention and innovation and initiative is the best marketing asset.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on t...

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Sydney SmithDictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopaedia of Quotations

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape ...

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I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But ...

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Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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Andy WarholThe Philosophy of Andy Warhol

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happe...

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The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman ...

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing...

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You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and th...

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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Adv...

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