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To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy. He who knows these three things, knows how to cultivate his own character. – Confucius	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Challenges cultivate ingenuity – Sindiswa Matyobeni	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Idleness is a great enemy to mankind. There is no friend like energy, for, if you cultivate that, it will never fail. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. – Lawana Blackwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. – William Powell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completion. Third, make the law of averages work for you. By budgeting your time more carefully than most people you can make more time available. Does the combination of curiosity, enthusiasm, and the law of averages guarantee success Indeed it does not ... Success in the final analysis always involves luck or the element of chance. Louis Pasteur grasped this well when he said that chance favors the prepared mind. – John W. Hanley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. – Charlotte Bronte	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. – Stephen Covey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. – Bill Cosby	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. – Rainer Maria Rilke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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