"It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens."
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"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words."
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"When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others."
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
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"Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back."
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"Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh."
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"Our attitude towards immigration reflects our faith in the American ideal. We have always believed it possible for men and women who start at the bottom to rise as far as the talent and energy allow. Neither race nor place of birth should affect their chances."
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"What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements."
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"I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot."
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"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
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"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."
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"For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It's meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer."
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"Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness."
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"Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am."
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"Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope."
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"Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude."
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"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."
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"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."
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"To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure."
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