The average estimate ...

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
 Friedrich Schiller

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
 Friedrich Schiller
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
 Friedrich Schiller
Art is the daughter of freedom.
 Friedrich Schiller
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
 Friedrich Schiller
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
 Friedrich Schiller