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Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.

Failure Teacher Make Undertaker
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FEAR has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.

Forget Fear Everything Rise
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

When Infinitely Tough Easier
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“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

Best Saying Necessary Doing
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“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”

Shape Dwelling Afterwards Our
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Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

Realize Catastrophy Between Know
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For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.
Easy Break Spirit Lifetime
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To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.

Spend Manner Waste Forever
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.

Know Study Action Process
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Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Life Your State Constant
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.

Fear Better Great Know
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Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Set Form Adapt Grow
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Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely – lay your life before him!

Pride Pain Graze Smash
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The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Mistake Outcome Victory Nature
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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“In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

War Often Life Fail
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Allow Negative Weed Mind
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Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged
Man Defeat Discourage Remember
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Most journeys in all of the world start not with bright expectations, a sense of adventure or a bucket and spade, but an empty stomach.

Journey World Bucket Stomach
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

First Human Quality Other
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Accident Result Intention Destiny
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happy Depend Upon
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Success Failure Fatal Courage
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“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
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“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
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“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
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“It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”

Best Enough Require Sometime
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Success Courage Failure Final
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“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”

Simple Freedom Honour Mercy
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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

Courage Quality Human Right
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

Advance Thinking Worrying Planning
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

Important Yourself Hole Digging
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong

Life Things Right Wrong
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It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Associate Behave People Direction
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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Widespread fear is your friend as an investor because it serves up bargain purchases.
Fear Investor Bargain Friend
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We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Neither Coward Rash Courage
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You will never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

World Courage Quality Honor
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When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

Portions Business Outstanding Management
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