Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you make of yourself is your gift to God. ~Jewish Proverb
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Do not fall before you are pushed. ~English Proverb
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Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~Corey Ford
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Anger can be an expensive luxury. ~Italian Proverb
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there is a better "Oklahoma!" someplace, a better "West Side Story." And I would like to be mixed up in it. ~Richard Rodgers
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If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you do not wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. ~Swedish Proverb
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From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb
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I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
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Anger without power is folly. ~German Proverb
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts. ~Soren Kierkegaard
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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Advice should be viewed from behind. ~Swedish Proverb
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Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverbs
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Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. ~George E. Allen
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. ~Chinese Proverb
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Democracy is the best chance for the best people. ~Robert Frost
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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