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1016 quotesYour persistence is your measure of faith in yourself.
Perseverance
Source Unknown
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
Perfection
John Updike
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
Innocence
John Updike
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Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
Virtue
Sir John Vanbrugh
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Failure
Marquis De Vauvenargues
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Anything done for another is done for oneself.
Service
Pope Boniface VIII
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Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times.
Hope
Virgil
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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
Affirmation
David Viscott
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
Reform
Voltaire
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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Self-love
Voltaire
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May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
Friends and Friendship
Voltaire
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Self-love
Voltaire
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Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
Idleness
Voltaire
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
Surprises
Voltaire
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Change
Denis Waitley
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One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Winners and Winning
Denis Waitley
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Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
Self-image
Denis Waitley
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
Leaders and Leadership
J. Donald Walters
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Adversity
Sam Walton
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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Responsibility
Andy Warhol
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Service
Booker T. Washington
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Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Identity
Alan W. Watts
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Purity
Simone Weil
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Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Impossibility
Weiler
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I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
Motivation
John Wesley
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun