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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

Good, Money, Friends

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Found, Ways

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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone

Happiness, Happy, Both

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain

Person, Read, Advantage

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Change, Mind, Subject

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Muhammad Ali

Fight, Long, Lost

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Art, Training, Rather

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill

Less, General, Greater

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

War, Country, Die

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Nothing, Reality, Others

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill

Peace, Good, War

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
Lao Tzu

Winning, Done, Try

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin

Men, Wise, Advice

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Men, Others

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

Change, Lonely, Control

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

Done, Joy, Soul

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

Fire, Light, Tell

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Long, Idea

Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
Michael Jordan

Love, Game, Play

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West

May, Dangerous, Curves

He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin

Helped, Counseled

Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin Franklin

Helped, Counseled

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar

Money, Happy, Find

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra

Yours, Otherwise, Funerals

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Laugh, Kids, Beginning

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan

Happiness, Money, Study

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