A dozing ox

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

~ Lao Tzu

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The keys to life

The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that talks to you and says, “Oh I’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way I can possibly continue.” You want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re running, you will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have–with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book.

~ Will Smith

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The energy of her citizens

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

~ Dwight Eisenhower

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Mastery

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

~ Leonardo da Vinci

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Only virtuous people

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

~ Ben Franklin

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One heel nailed in

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

~ Lao Tzu

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Things worth the writing

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

~ Ben Franklin

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If you must

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away

~ Will Smith

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Words not deeds

A man of words and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.

~ Ben Franklin

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Someone else holding the remote

Living life without a plan is like watching televisions with someone else holding the remote control.

~ Peter Turla

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