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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.
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If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha 
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Curiosity takes courage.
The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself.
Pay Attention.
Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW.
- Mary C. Crowley
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Believe you can - and then make it happen.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill
You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
The trick is in what one emphasizes.
We either make ourselves miserable,
or we make ourselves happy.
The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.
- Mark Twain
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Things turn out best for the people
who make the best of the way things turn out.
- Art Linkletter
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make,
both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control
the process of choosing, you can take control
of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom
that comes from being in charge of yourself.
- Robert Foster Bennett
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it.
- Anonymous
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting.
- The Buddha
I make friends with my fear. I am unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
To be yourself in a world that
is constantly trying to make you something else
is the greatest accomplishment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every decision you make ...
is a decision about Who You Are.
- Neale Donald Walsch
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
What we call the beginning is often the end.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
The end is where we start from.
- T. S. Eliot
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The best way to destroy an enemy
is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage
to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
It's your life - live your own goals,
your own values, your own life.
Be of service to others,
but make your own decisions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
Make Today count. Today - each Today -
is the most important day of your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Exercise free-will.
CHOOSE each and every action you make,
every thought you think,
and every emotion you feel.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
I Make Free-Will Choices.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
The most central ingredient in the recipe
for living Simply An Inspired Life
is to Make Joyful CHOICES.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.
- Carlos Castaneda
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
People hardly ever make use of the freedom which they have,
for example, freedom of thought;
instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We act as though comfort and luxury
were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
Words make you think a thought.
Music makes you feel a feeling.
A song makes you feel a thought.
- E. Y. Harburg
When you make the sacrifice in marriage,
you're sacrificing not to each other
but to unity in a relationship.
- Joseph Campbell
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
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