Best Quotes About Motivational (Top 100)
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Be yourself, because others are already taken.
Oscar Wilde
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.. think of it, always.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
Marilyn Monroe
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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
John Lennon
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
William Faulkner
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audrey Hepburn
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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Dr. Seuss
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
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Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear
Aung San Suu Kyi
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.
Maya Angelou
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
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If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
John Green
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
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It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley
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I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
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And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
Libba Bray
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If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
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Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Aristotle
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours
Alan Bennett
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In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Roald Dahl
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Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran
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Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Sigmund Freud
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What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.
Terry Pratchett
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
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Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
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You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
Maya Angelou
Even More Motivational Quotes
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Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
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Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Anais Nin
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There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.
Judith McNaught
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
George Bernard Shaw
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
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The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort
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It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
Babe Ruth
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
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It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
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You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
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[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
Jim Henson
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
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Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Adolf Hitler
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking
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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison
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Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
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Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?
Che Guevara
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The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
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A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.
Malcolm X
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
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Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Socrates
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
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Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
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Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
Jim Rohn
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Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Laozi
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If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
Steve Jobs
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
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You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
Bob Marley
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
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If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers
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you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Rosa Parks
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
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You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Lou Holtz
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Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie
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If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
Jon Stewart
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A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
Nelson Mandela
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
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I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
Stephen Hawking
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Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
Brad Paisley
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
Alexander the Great
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Immanuel Kant
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
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You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno
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Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein
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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.
Betty Friedan
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
Maya Angelou
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
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Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B. Hinckley
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
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Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
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Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
Earl Nightingale
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
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Don't count the days, make the days count.
Muhammad Ali
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget
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Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
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When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Edward Teller
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
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No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.
Margaret Sanger
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Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
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The chief beauty about timeis that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplieda single moment in all your life.You can turn over a new leaf every hourif you choose.
Arnold Bennett
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford
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Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
Greg Behrendt
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
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We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are
John C. Maxwell
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
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To be a man you've gotta beat the man.
Ric Flair
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I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William S. Burroughs
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers
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You should never read just for "enjoyment." Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own. Pick "hard books." Ones you have to concentrate on while reading. And for god's sake, don't let me ever hear you say, "I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth." Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of "literature"? That means fiction, too, stupid.
John Waters
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Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley
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But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.
Rachel Carson
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
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Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
James Patterson
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham Maslow
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Jorge Luis Borges
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson
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Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
Winston Churchill
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash
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He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
Jack Welch
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You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Buxton
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Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyi
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I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Gene Roddenberry
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Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
Robert Collier
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I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne
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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward
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The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra
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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
Swami Vivekananda
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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
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Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
William James
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance
George Balanchine
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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
Marianne Williamson
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In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer
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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
Karl Marx
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When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
Colin Powell
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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?
Rachel Carson
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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill
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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Jim Rohn
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I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
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What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
Colin Powell
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A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.
Napoleon Hill
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Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.
Jack Canfield
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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
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Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
Dean Karnazes
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I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
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When I Asked God for Strength He Gave Me Difficult Situations to Face When I Asked God for Brain & Brawn He Gave Me Puzzles in Life to Solve When I Asked God for Happiness He Showed Me Some Unhappy People When I Asked God for Wealth He Showed Me How to Work Hard When I Asked God for Favors He Showed Me Opportunities to Work Hard When I Asked God for Peace He Showed Me How to Help Others God Gave Me Nothing I Wanted He Gave Me Everything I Needed.
Swami Vivekananda
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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. Swindoll
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.
Charles Dickens
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Stephen King
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I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
John Dryden
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By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
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If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
Sheryl Sandberg
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Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
Gloria Steinem
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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.
Mark Twain
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What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?
Antonin Scalia
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
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Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.
Avril Lavigne
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey
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I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
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A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear,
who has you see what you don't want to see,
so you can be who you have always known you could be
Tom Landry
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller
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Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
James Dean
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.
Leigh Hunt
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino
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Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey
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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
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Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.
Brigham Young
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Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Horace
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The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.
Dan Gable
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
M. Scott Peck
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
Adrienne Rich
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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole
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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming."
Alice Walker
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barry
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
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Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.
Chad Michael Murray
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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
George S. Patton
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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
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Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
David McCullough
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir
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All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
Harvey Milk
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Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown
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If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!
Richard Branson
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
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Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Hunter S. Thompson
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.
Heraclitus
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
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Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
William Arthur Ward
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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Louis Pasteur
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An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi Wolf
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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati Roy
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The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you'd be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don't let life randomly kick you into the adult you don't want to become.
Chris Hadfield
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The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Paula Poundstone
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Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it.
Jesse Owens
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It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.
Eartha Kitt
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
Wilma Rudolph
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Tough times never last. Tough people do
Robert H. Schuller
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Failure is success in progress
Albert Einstein
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Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
John Lennon
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
Mary Kay Ash
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The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances E. Willard
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
W. H. Auden
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
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I am not concerned that you have fallen — I am concerned that you arise.
Abraham Lincoln
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
John Wooden
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.
Eckhart Tolle
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus
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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
Corrie Ten Boom
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton
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I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Jim Rohn
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry
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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Jackie Robinson
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Eric Hoffer
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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
John Ruskin
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.
Theodore Roosevelt
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People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
Karl Lagerfeld
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You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things—-to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
Edmund Hillary
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Earl Nightingale
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
Janis Joplin
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The best protection any woman can have... is courage.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
Voltaire
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Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Muhammad Ali
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
John D. Rockefeller
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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
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Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
Jane Goodall
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The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda
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Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings
Arthur Rubinstein
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
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You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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There's no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
Bill Bowerman
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
Will Rogers
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Great ideas come from everywhere if you just listen and look for them. You never know who's going to have a great idea.
Sam Walton
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If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Hippocrates
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Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.
Henri Bergson
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Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
Sylvester Stallone
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When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
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Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.
Tori Amos
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We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong
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Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.
Avril Lavigne
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C. S. Lewis
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John Ruskin
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Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.
Jerry Rice
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Gautama Buddha
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
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The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo
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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.
Cherie Carter-Scott
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
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Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank A. Clark
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I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
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The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
Harold S. Kushner
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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Failure is not an option.
Gene Kranz
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When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
Grantland Rice
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom Landry
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Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
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The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
Linus Pauling
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Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning
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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.
LeBron James
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
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In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
Jerry Garcia
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg
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I always loved running... it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
Jesse Owens
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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
John Wooden
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You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda
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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.
Jim Lovell
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Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
James Cook
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman
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Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.
Marva Collins
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When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing
Bo Schembechler
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It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
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You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.
Emmet Fox
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Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley
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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.
Anna Pavlova
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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill
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Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
Kathleen Norris
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
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Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out
John Wooden
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown Jr
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will Rogers
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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.
Plato
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.
Melanie Griffith
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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
Honore de Balzac
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Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.
Richard Carlson
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There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide
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If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
Arsene Wenger
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
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Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
Napoleon Hill
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
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Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Abbie Hoffman
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
Diana Ross
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky
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One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair," we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be.
Richard Carlson
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
Wayne Gretzky
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
E. e. cummings
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Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? — and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.
Anna Sewell
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The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
Gordon Parks
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Glenn Turner
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Anatole France
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If you never change your mind, why have one?
Edward de Bono
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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Ted Turner
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It is better to have done something than to have been someone.
Claude Monet
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When you live your life by poor standards, you inflict damage on everyone who crosses your path, especially those you love.
Jordan Belfort
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We must travel in the direction of our fear.
John Berryman
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Evan Esar
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Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.
Charlie Parker
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
Emile Zola
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It takes two men to make one brother.
Israel Zangwill
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Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Euripides
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
John Dalton
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
James Cameron
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One chance is all you need.
Jesse Owens
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
Stephen Levine
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Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
David O. McKay
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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
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Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Jim Rohn
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
Bill Bowerman
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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
Jack Dixon
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
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Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
Johnny Carson
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A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay
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If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
Carl Lewis
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
Cecil Beaton
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid
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Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.
Diane Arbus
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The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
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Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Bruce Lee
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If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job.
Tom Landry
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Jesse Jackson
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
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Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson
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Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
Andre Agassi
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Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
Richard Baxter
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Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Richard M. Nixon
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There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Tommy Lasorda
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Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
William Hazlitt
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The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
Howard Cosell
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In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.
James Cameron
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
Bobby Knight
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If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Namath
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Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.
Johan Cruijff
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.
Susan B. Anthony
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin
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The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere
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Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
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A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
Jack Dempsey
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If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope
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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
David Viscott
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The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.
Ann Richards
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No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.
Tiger Woods
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall
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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale
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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens
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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.
John McPhee
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Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi Hendrix
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird
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I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
Tom Landry
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
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If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted
Francis Bacon
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. e. cummings
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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
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I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
John Wycliffe
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What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
John Ruskin
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
John Lubbock
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestley
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Samuel Butler
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Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley
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To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
Janeane Garofalo
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. Morgan
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
Jack Nicklaus
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Robert Hughes
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The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison
Ann Wigmore
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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca
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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
Michael Korda
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child
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Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.
Joe Frazier
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Robert Collier
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If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
Carl Linnaeus
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When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
John D. Rockefeller
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Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.
Thomas J. Watson
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim Valvano
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
Casey Stengel
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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
Aldo Leopold
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
Ingrid Bergman
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Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation
Zig Ziglar
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If not you, who? If not now, when?
Hillel the Elder
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When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck
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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan
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If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Jonathan Winters
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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.
Alice Walker
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Abigail Van Buren
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
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Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
Richard Carlson
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
William Cowper
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Denis Waitley
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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford
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You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
David Viscott
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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.
Michael J. Gelb
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer
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It doesn't get any easier; you just get faster.
Greg LeMond
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
William Saroyan
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The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
Knute Rockne
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
Carl Lewis
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
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The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.
Livy
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Henry Van Dyke
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris
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Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
Daniel Burnham
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Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.
Hyman Rickover
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In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays
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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka
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Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.
Mark Jenkins
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One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
George Washington Carver
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
Frank Sinatra
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Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
Lance Armstrong
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy Thompson
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.
Wilma Rudolph
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
Oprah Winfrey
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A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Bruce Springsteen
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
Ben Stein
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The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.
Hugh Hefner
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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Evander Holyfield
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Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci
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The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
Denis Waitley
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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
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I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Frank Capra
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
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Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Jeannette Walls
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
W. Clement Stone
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson
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Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
John D. Rockefeller
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You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Horace Lorimer
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We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
Maxwell Maltz
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You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.
John Ford
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I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
Ruth Benedict
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
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Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Bruce Lee
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The only thing you deserve is what you earn
Tom Brands
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You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.
Jim Rohn
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Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Alexander Graham Bell
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos
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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda
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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd
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Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
Eric Thomas
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Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana
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You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.
Dale Earnhardt
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The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Henry Ford
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Joe DiMaggio
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
James Whitcomb Riley
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
Frederick Salomon Perls
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A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.
Ewan McGregor
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
David Allen
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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence Nightingale
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
Ruth Gordon
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Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
Rudolf Nureyev
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
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Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
Matthew Kelly
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Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.
John Welwood
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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
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The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Alexander Woollcott
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You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
Jerry West
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
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Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl Streep
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
Henry Moore
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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Claudius
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You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output - how much you produce - not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.
Larry Eisenberg
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The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
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I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
John Daly
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey
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You will go one on one with the Great One!
Dwayne Johnson
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You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
Satchel Paige
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Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W. C. Fields
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You always pass failure on your way to success.
Mickey Rooney
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
Boris Yeltsin
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When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
Armand Hammer
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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone
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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
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Those things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
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I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.
Steve Kerr
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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
Tori Amos
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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W. Clement Stone
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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
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The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
Joseph de Maistre
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I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
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"ツ燦e only have so many faces in our pockets
Marlon Brando
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It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving.
Henrietta Mears
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Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?
Sean Covey
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Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.
Hamilton Holt
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A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
John Foster Dulles
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Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.
Mike Ditka
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No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.
Althea Gibson
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If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.
Julius Erving
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He can run, but he can't hide.
Joe Louis
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Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.
Robert Penn Warren
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Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
Damon Hill
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At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
Lakshmi Mittal
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott
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You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert
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I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
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Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
Robert Altman
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth
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Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
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I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
Lynn Jennings
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar Sadat
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The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks
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The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
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I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.
Steve Kerr
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On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
Knute Rockne
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader
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Step by step and the thing is done.
Charles Atlas
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Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.
Claude M. Bristol
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
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There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.
Phyllis Bottome
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Ian Fleming
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Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.
Tim Noakes
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If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin
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It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken
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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
Billy Joel
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
Tommy Lasorda
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Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
Mike Ditka
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The only place you can win a football game is on the field, the only place you can lose it is in your hearts.
Darrell Royal
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Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Michael Korda
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Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
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Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
Bonnie Blair
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We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Sean Covey
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The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators.
William Feather
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To heal from the inside out is the key.
Wynonna Judd
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Russell Banks
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The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
Joe Girard
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
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Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock
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I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking.
Og Mandino
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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Luis Barragan
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I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.
Alberto Tomba
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If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?
Frans de Waal
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Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on time. The trick is to always keep the engine running.
Gary Sinise
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Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
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I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
Cassandra Wilson
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
Willie Mays
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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Susie Bright
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.
John Mayer
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Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Jakob Dylan
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What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.
John Mellencamp
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Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Liberace
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To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.
Avril Lavigne
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When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
Gene Kelly
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The more you can dream, the more you can do.
Michael Korda
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Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.
Bill Shankly
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Sylvester Stallone
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The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Swami Vivekananda
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If you can't outplay them, outwork them.
Ben Hogan
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams
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Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Robert H. Schuller
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
Sydney Smith
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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
Les Brown
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Casey Stengel
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My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.
Carl Lewis
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I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
Charles Fletcher Lummis
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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
Saul Bellow
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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
Robert Collier
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I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.
Fred Astaire
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Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life become more secure, more fraught with action, richer in experience and achievement.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems,but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening, opportunities to practice, and to learn.
Richard Carlson
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Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.
David Rockefeller
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All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
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You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
Pete Rose
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If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
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The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.
Bum Phillips
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We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.
James Van Praagh
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Richard DeVos
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To finish first, you must first finish.
Rick Mears
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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for the deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Hank Aaron
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Companies that solely focus on competition will ultimately die. Those that focus on value creation will thrive.
Edward de Bono
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought
Laurence J. Peter
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If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
Frank A. Clark
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A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Robert Hughes
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Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
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A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
Bill Shankly
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We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
Jewel
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Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Leonard Bernstein
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
Fernand Braudel
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Even when you have gone as far as you can, and everything hurts, and you are staring at the specter of self-doubt, you can find a bit more strength deep inside you, if you look closely enough.
Hal Higdon
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Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Swami Vivekananda
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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.
James Whitcomb Riley
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In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello
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If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
Edward Everett Hale
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Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.
Sean Covey
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The saddest day of the year is the day baseball season ends.
Tommy Lasorda
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First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Napoleon Hill
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Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Mario Andretti
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Accomplishments have no color
Leontyne Price
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If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker
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The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
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The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Nolan Bushnell
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The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
John Lithgow
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Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.
Joe Louis
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
Duke Snider
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Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
W. Clement Stone
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
Alexander Pope
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
B. C. Forbes
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Don't be told something is impossible. There's always a way.
Robert Rodriguez
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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison
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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.
Pierre Corneille
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I was made to work. If you are equally industrious, you will be equally successful.
Johann Sebastian Bach
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If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
Brooks Robinson
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We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.
Marcel Proust
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Questers of the truth, that's who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being's authentic core.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
Gordie Howe
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Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
Conrad Hilton
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Those who say 'you only live once' have never read a book.
John Hughes
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anais Nin
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Emile Zola
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
Robert Orben
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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
Ben Stein
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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.
Glenda Jackson
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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda
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Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
Arnold Palmer
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Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
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You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
Jim Carrey
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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
W. Clement Stone
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
Robert Collier
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past
John Hope Franklin
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Frederic Chopin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin
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You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
Roger Maris
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson