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“If you tolerate fear, you yourself will become distrustful. If you tolerate hate, you yourself will become dispiteful. If you tolerate arrogance, you yourself will become concietful. If you tolerate ignorance, you yourself will become disgraceful. If you promote tolerance, you yourself will become peaceful. If you promote harmony, you yourself will become joyful. If you promote love, you yourself will become powerful. If you promote world peace, you yourself will become impactful.”

“You are the author of your own destiny; write yourself into history books.”

“None want to know the ignorant. Some want to know the simple. Many want to know the profound. Countless want to know the mysterious. Draw people with you mind, and they are yours temporarily. Draw people with your heart, and they are yours enduringly. Draw people with you soul, and they are yours permanently.”

“If people like you, you're worth much to them. If people desire you, you're worth more to them. If people need you, you're worth everything to them. Make people like you, and they will go ten extra miles for you. Make them admire you, and they will go a hundred extra miles for you. Make them love you, and they will go a thousand extra miles for you. Make them adore you, and they will even go a million extra miles for you.”

“If people like you, you're worth much to them. If people desire you, you're worth more to them. If people need you, you're worth everything to them. Make people like you, and they will go ten extra steps for you. Make them admire you, and they will go a hundred steps for you. Make them love you, and they will go a thousand extra steps for you. Make them adore you, and they will go a million extra steps for you.”

“The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.”

“The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.”

“First, fear will mock you, then fear will taunt you, then fear will oppose you, and if you ignore it, only then will it flee from you.”

“Rise above your fears and you rise above your world.”

“A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.”

“At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.”

“You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.”

“One note does not make a symphony; one artist does not make an orchestra.”