Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
Francois De La RochefoucauldRead
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.
We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.
How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.
Entrepreneurial business favours the open mind. It favours people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so.
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