Elevated levels of confidence are omnipresent among history’s greatest overachievers. Benjamin Franklin, one of the most famous men in the world even before he signed the Declaration of Independence once lamented about humility, “I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue.”

~ John Eliot, Ph.D. Quotes from Overachievement: The New Model for Exceptional Performance

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You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

~ Wallace D. Wattles Quotes from The Science of Being Great

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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

~ Rollo May Quotes from The Courage to Create

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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Heroism

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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be a friend.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

~ Aristotle Quotes

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