You are you

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.

Dr. Seuss

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A man of value

Try not to become a man of succees but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Care for opinions

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau

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It’s about character

Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.

Thomas A. Edison

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Integrity is everything

No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything.

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The good stuff

People call these things imperfections, but they’re not. Aw that’s the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.

Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting

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Believe in yourself

The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basics of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity.

Roy L. Smith

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Change

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.

Jim Rohn

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On Friendship

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be an influence

I don’t want to be a product of my environment; I want my environment to be a product of me.

Frank Costello in The Departed

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