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“In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.”

Way Life May Play Skills Cards Live Life

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.”

Life Poor Our Lives Skills Notes Tone Strings Shallow Symphony Great Music Harps

Book:Songs, Legends and Ballads

Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads

“Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.”

Life Life Is Turns Games Chance Air Skills Complicated Devices Defeated Liable Descent Thistles

Book:Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

Source: Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot

“How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!”

People Ifs Life Would Be Interesting Skills Interesting Life

Book:Prose Fancies

Source: Prose Fancies

“I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.”

People Knows Life Long Political Policy Inspire Confidence Skills Concern Combination Fairness Innate Long Life Personal Touch

Author:William J. Clinton

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”

“He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”

Life Inspirational Education Struggle Skills Anger Adversity Triumph Opposition Hardship Nerves Helpers Antagonist Sharpening Strength In Adversity

Author:Edmund Burke

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”

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Author:Ralph Marston

“No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.”

People Life Writing Different Done Joy Courses Activity Skills Following Enthusiasm Manuals

Author:Paulo Coelho

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

Ifs Knows Life Long Ideas Moving Education Learning Growing Skills Excellence Insight Long Life Learners Achiever Teaching Learning New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Denis Waitley

“Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.”

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man