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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

- John Dalberg

Commitment ... is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

- James M. Paramore

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking.

- Ralph Marston

How many of us are waiting for the opportunity to do some great thing for the betterment of our community, forgetting that the solution of the problem requires only the active intelligent, fulfillment of individual civic duty. The only things which are wrong about our Government are the things which are wrong with you and me. Democracy is never a thing done; it is and always will be a goal to be achieved. It means action, not passive acquiescence in things as they are; it requires alertness to duty, a dynamic faith, a willingness to give for the good of all. It can live only as a result of loyalty and devotion to its principles expressed by daily deeds.

- Douglas L. Edmonds

The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions.

- Andre Godin

Your life will be no better than the plans you make, and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, and destiny.

- Alfred Armand Montapert

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

- Don Herold

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

- Paul Johnson

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

- Jan Ignace Paderewski

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind ... The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

- Vernon Howard