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“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
Og Mandino
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
Andrew Carnegie
“The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.”
Ben Okri
“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
Albert Camus
“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.”
Edward Phelps
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
Socrates
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Walt Whitman
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
Albert Einstein
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson