If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to put up with a few blisters.

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"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good and how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail van Buren

Compassion

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."

- Abigail van Buren

Wisdom

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

- Abigail van Buren

Family

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money"

- Abigail van Buren

Family

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

- Abigail van Buren

Morality

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"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"

- President Boyd K. Packer

Ambition

"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."

- Mark Twain

Ambition

"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

Ambition

"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."

- Billie Jean King

Ambition

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

Ambition