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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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"There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best." |
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Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), American Politician |
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Robert Kennedy was one of the four Kennedy brothers who shaped American politics during the mid 20th century. He was appointed attorney general by John F. Kennedy in 1960 and led the fight against organized crime, despite that fact that organized crime bosses had helped his brother win the union vote, and the presidency. He was also active in protecting those who fought for civil rights. Following his brother’s assassination Robert resigned from the cabinet and won election in 1964 as a United States senator from New York. He established himself as a leading liberal and criticized President Johnson’s conduct of the war in Vietnam. He had won five of six primaries in his campaign for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination when he was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant who was upset by Kennedy’s pro-Israel position.
Kennedy interrupted his college years at Harvard to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After graduating from Harvard he studied law at the University of Virginia. Robert began his career by helping his brother John win a Senate seat in 1952. He served on a number of Senate committees, including Joseph McCarthy’s infamous committee investigating communists, before serving as John Kennedy’s campaign manager in a successful bid for the presidency in 1960.
His eldest brother, Joseph Jr., was killed in World War II. One of his sisters, Cathleen, was killed in a plane crash in 1948; another sister was institutionalized due to mental retardation.
In 1950 Robert married Ethel Shakel. After Robert’s death the sole surviving brother was Senator Edward Kennedy, who was responsible for commuting the sentence of his brother’s assassin from death to life in prison, where he remains. Robert and Ethel had 11 children, of whom 9 survive. One, Michael, died in a skiing accident, and another, David Anthony, died of a drug overdose.
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