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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

- Michel de Montaigne | Cheerfulness Quotes

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

- Michel de Montaigne | Acceptance Quotes

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne | Acceptance Quotes

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

- Michel de Montaigne | Forgiveness Quotes

Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best, and he answered, "Somebody else's."

- Michel de Montaigne | Other Side Quotes

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

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If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

- Michel de Montaigne | Friendship Quotes

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."

- Michel de Montaigne | Prayer Quotes

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

- Michel de Montaigne | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

- Michel de Montaigne | Self-Acceptance Quotes

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

- Michel de Montaigne | Self-Control Quotes

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm, "O God, you will save me if you wish, but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."

- Michel de Montaigne | Self-Reliance Quotes

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

- Michel de Montaigne | One Day Quotes

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

- Michel de Montaigne | Difficult Days Quotes

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

- Michel de Montaigne | Positive Quotes

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope.

- Michel de Montaigne | Hope Quotes

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure, so immovable, so disdainful, so contemplative, so solemn and serious as an ass?

- Michel de Montaigne | Creating Positive Change Quotes

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

- Michel de Montaigne | Right Quotes

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.

- Michel de Montaigne | Motivation Quotes

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

- Michel de Montaigne | Realistic Expectations Quotes

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

- Michel de Montaigne | Goals Quotes

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

- Michel de Montaigne | Goals Quotes

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

- Michel de Montaigne | Goals Quotes

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

- Michel de Montaigne | Goals Quotes

The thing I fear most is fear.

- Michel de Montaigne | Fear Quotes

He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.

- Michel de Montaigne | Anxiety about the Future Quotes

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.

- Michel de Montaigne | Worry Quotes

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

- Michel de Montaigne | Courage Quotes

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

- Michel de Montaigne | Courage Quotes

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.

- Michel de Montaigne | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

- Michel de Montaigne | Failures and Mistakes Quotes

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

- Michel de Montaigne | Worthy Victories Quotes

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

- Michel de Montaigne | Events Quotes

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

- Michel de Montaigne | Events Quotes

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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