It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. ― Robert Lipsyte

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A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. – Henry David Thoreau

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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.- Oscar Wilde

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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today. ― Robert Greene

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No man is free who is not master of himself. ― Epictetus

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Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

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My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength. — Jeremiah Denton

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One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

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