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Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.
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The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by…
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he…
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No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him,…
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps…
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We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted…
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We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is…
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The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the…
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Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.
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Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a…
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of…
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I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for…
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized…
— George Henry Borrow
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The life of discipleship is not the hero-worship we would pay to a good master, but obedience to the Son of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I'm a sucker for hero worship.
— Ronald Reagan
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Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero;…
— Irwin Edman
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If you want to know what a man's character is really like... ask him to tell you the living person he most…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.
— Napoleon Hill
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Society is founded on hero-worship.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,…
— Keri Russell
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