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Jinger Heath: Success doesn't necessarily...

Jinger Heath: Success doesn't necessarily...

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person. . . . but without the confidence and security that comes from...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: I ran the...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I ran the...

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Source: Quoted by...

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Isadora Duncan: The first essential...

Isadora Duncan: The first essential...

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the...

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Leontyne Price: You should always...

Leontyne Price: You should always...

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave...

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Barbra Streisand: Why does a...

Barbra Streisand: Why does a...

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she...

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Nina Simone: How do you...

Nina Simone: How do you...

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and...

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Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

Source: In Words of...

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Alice Duer Miller: And now too...

Alice Duer Miller: And now too...

And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must...

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Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

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Martina Navratilova: The image of...

Martina Navratilova: The image of...

The image of women is changing now. You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same...

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Martina Navratilova: Just go out...

Martina Navratilova: Just go out...

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

Source:
-- Martina Navratilova,...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: A muscle is...

Florence Griffith Joyner: A muscle is...

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it...

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Amelia Earhart: Courage is the...

Amelia Earhart: Courage is the...

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not, knows no release
From...

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Simone Weil: Who were the...

Simone Weil: Who were the...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead...

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Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation,...

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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Peace Pilgrim: Before the tongue...

Peace Pilgrim: Before the tongue...

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Source: In The...

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Peace Pilgrim: Humanity has only...

Peace Pilgrim: Humanity has only...

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Source: In The...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! -- What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and...

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