"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
ARISTOTLE

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

LAO TZU


“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
 ARISTOTLE

                                         
“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
                                             

“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
C. S. LEWIS


"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
ALBERT EINSTEIN


"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
ALBERT EINSTEIN


"The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
SOCRATES


"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
MARK TWAIN


“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”
 BIL KEANE

 

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"You may delay, but time will not."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
GRACE HOPPER

 

"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
SENECA

 

"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
Benjamin Franklin

 

 

"People react more to the messenger than to the message."
"It is more important how you say than what you say it."
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"There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems."
 HENRY FORD


"Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits."
 ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE


"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
CICERO


"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
 EPICTETUS


"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."
 ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

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"Good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil; if the reward is not forthcoming, it is because the time has not yet come; when the time comes, one will get one's due reward."

Old Chinese Saying

 

"Everyone lives by selling something,"

Louis Stevenson

 

"It is not the employer who pays the salaries, it's the client."

Henry Ford

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"A customer is the most important person ever in this company - in person or by mail."
"A customer is a person who brings us his wants. It is our job to handle them profitably to him and to ourselves."

L.L. Bean, Inc.  Freeport Maine

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"To your customers, you should treat them as your partners as well as your food & clothing parents, and you really should act as their consultant."
"You can shear a sheep again and again, but you can only skin it once."
"Losers are people who think they have lost.  Winners are people who think they have won."

Benjamin Liu

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"Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong."

CALVIN COOLIDGE

 

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 "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
 ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

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"Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed."

PETER DRUCKER

 

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"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

 SENECA

 

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."

 C. S. LEWIS

 

 

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

MAIMONIDES

 

        "Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."

 LEO TOLSTOY

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"The only journey is the one within."

 RAINER MARIA RILKE

 

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"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."

HENRY FORD

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"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

PLATO

 

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

 

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"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." 

LEWIS CARROLL

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 " I think a lot, but I don't say much."

ANNE FRANK

 

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 "Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood, nothing else is under your control."

MARCUS AURELIUS

 

 

 "You are who you were, you are who you are, also you are who you will be"

Benjamin Liu

 

 

  “What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create”.

BUDDHA

 

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"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

CONFUCIUS

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  " Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

LEO TOLSTOY

 

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  "I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep."

LEONARDO DA VINCI

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"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."

CARL JUNG

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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."

ANDREW CARNE

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 "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." 
ROBERT FROST

 

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
CARL JUNG

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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
 C.S. LEWIS

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"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
CONFUCIUS

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self."

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
TACITUS

 

"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
 THOMAS PAINE

 

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

ROBERT FROST

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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

EPICTETUS

 

"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy."
 ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

 

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

 SENECA

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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
MAYA ANGELOU

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"I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies."
WINSTON CHURCHILL"

MAYA ANGELOU

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"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility."
PETER DRUCKER


“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.”
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER


“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
ARISTOTLE


“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN


“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
THOMAS JEFFERSON


“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL

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“Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.”
MARGARET THATCHER

 
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
GEORGE ELIOT


"Always treat yourself with softness even when things are hard"
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“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL


“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”
   WINSTON  CHURCHILL

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"We do our best and God will do the rest.
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"What can be done today will not leave anything tomorrow.
Abraham Lincoln
 

 

"If you always do what you always do, you will always get your
Always get. Henry Ford
 

"Prefer knowledge to wealth, because one is short-lived and the other is eternal
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"Real men smile in difficult situations, gather strength from pain, and become brave through reflection.
Thomas Payne

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"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting."
            NAPOLEON HILL


"A man's character is his fate."
HERACLITUS


“The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficulty.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL


“Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.”
NAPOLEAN HILL


"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."
NAPOLEAN HILL


"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
MAYA ANGELOU


"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."                                   

HENRY FORD
 

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

NAPOLEAN HILL
 

"A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week."
GENERAL GEORGE PATTON


"Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men."
JOHN F. KENNEDY
 

“A goal is a dream with a deadline ”
  NAPOLEAN HILL

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“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.”
SENECA
 

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
NAPOLEAN HILL
 

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."
ANNE FRANK
 

"I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near."
MARGARET THATCHER
 

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
  WALTER ELLIOTT

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“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.”
JIM ROHN
 

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
WALT WHITMAN
 

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
 

"When every day is one for the history books, you need journalism you can trust."
The Washington Post
 

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
ROY T. BENNETT
 

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
 

“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
MAYA ANGELOU
 

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
FLAVIA WEEDN
 

"Happiness depands more upon the internal frmae of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world."
George Washingtom
 

"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill og creacive effort."
Franklin D. Rooseveit
 

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
Charles Spurgeon
 

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

"It is better for us to act than to talk; It's better for us to choose action over inacttion; the future over the past."
Barack Obama
 

"There are risks and costs to action.  But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy
 

"Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned.  Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich, Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
Benjamin Franklin
 

"Success always demands a greater effort."
Winston Churchill
 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step."
Confucius

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 "Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

“Play by the rules, but be ferocious.”

Phil Knight

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“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

Richard Branson
 

“Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow.”

 Anthony Robbins
 

“You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”

Warren Buffett


 “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

Henry David Thoreau
 

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

 Anaïs Nin
 

 “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.”

Seth Godin
 

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”

G.K. Chesterton
 

 “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.”

Susan Butcher
 

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Theodore Roosevelt
 

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

Steve Jobs
 

“Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying into space.”

 Chris Hadfield
 

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

Will Rodgers
 

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

Barack Obama
 

“Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.”

William Durant
 

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”

Albert Einstein

“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

 

 “The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell.”

​ Andrew Carnegie
 

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

Walt Disney
 

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!”

Henry Ford
 

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

Colin Powell
 

“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
 

“Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

Coco Chanel
 

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas Edison
 

“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”

Oprah Winfrey
 

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

Estée Lauder
 

“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”

Babe Ruth


“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

Vidal Sassoon
 

“The only way around is through.”

 Robert Frost

 

Bonus Quote: “The best investment is in the tools of one’s own trade.”

Benjamin Franklin

 

"A light heart lives longer."
Western Proverb


"Care killed a cat."
Western Proverb


"Diseases of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body."
Cicero


""Don't burn the candle at both ends."
Western Proverb


"Eat at pleasure, drink by measure."
Italian Proverb


"Health and intellect are the two blessings of life."
Walter Scott


"Prevention is better than cure."
Voltaire


"Time is the greatest healer."
Western Proverb


"The hide disease is fatal."
Western Proverb


"A contended man is always rich."
Chinese Proverb


"Debt is a bottomless sea."
Thomas Carlyle


"He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
Western Proverb


"Light come, light go."
Western Proverb

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"Actions speak louder than words."
Western Proverb


"Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image."
Goethe


"Be slow in tongue and quick of eye."
Cervantes


"Be swift in action and cautious in speach."
"Slow in speach, quick in action."
Confucius


"Easier said than done."
Chinese Proverb


"Good words cast nothing, but are worth much."
Thomas Fuller


"We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less."
Diogenes


"He knows most who speaks least."
George Herbert


"Nothing to excess."
Inscription on the Temple


"A bird in hand is worth two in the bush."
Western Proverb


"Beggars must not be choosers."
Western Proverb


"Every advantage has its disadvantage."
Western Proverb


"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
Aldous Huxley


"Far water does not put out near fire."
Chinese Proverb


"Half a loaf is better than no bread."
Western Proverb


"It is no use crying over split milk."
Western Proverb


"Lost time is never found again."
Benjamin Franklin


"Old wood is best to burnm old wine to drink, and old friends to trust."
Francis Bacon


"Though the wound is healed, yet a scar remains."
Western Proverb


"Whenever a man commits a crime, Heaven finds a witness."
Henry Bulwer


"People who live in glass houses should never throw stone."
Western Proverb


"Speaking without thinking is shooting without aiming."
Spanish Proverb


"Still waters run deep."
Chinese Proverb


"Strong reasons make strong actions."
William Shakespeare


"Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities."
Anonymous


"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
Linus Pauling


"Success is that old ABC - ABULITY, BREAKS, AND COURAGE."
Charles Luckman


"Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want."
Anonymous


"Thr man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years if his life."
Muhammad Ali


"Don't go through lifr; grow through life."
Eric Butterworth


"Thr business of life is to go forward,"
Samuel Johnson


"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
Wulson Wizner


"Knowledge is the power of the mind, wisdom is the power of the soul."
Julie Samahan Emily Dickinson


"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
JAMES JOYCE

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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

 

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”
 MAYA ANGELOU


“If you want to fly, you have to give up everything that weighs you down.”
TONI MORRISON


“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
JOHN WOODEN

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
BIL KEANE

“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
 RALPH WALDO EMERSON
     

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought."
MATSUO BASHO

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“Excuses are the rocks where our dreams are crushed.”

TIM FARGO

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"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

”SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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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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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

 ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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“I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.”

 LOU HOLTZ

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“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”

DEAN ACHESON

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“It is not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.”

LOU HOLTZ

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

DALE CARNEGIE

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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

HENRY FORD

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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”

JOHN STEINBECK

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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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"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

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“What you do has greater impact than what you say.”

STEPHEN COVEY

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"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

MARK TWAIN

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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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"I have had lots of troubles in my life, most of which never happened."

MARK TWAIN

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“You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted.”

RUTH E. RENKEL

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“There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one’s self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.”

VASH YOUNG

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"Our greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

WILLIAM JAMES

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“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”

MATTHEW ARNOLD

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“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

JIM ROHN

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 "Build a dream and the dream will build you."

ROBERT H. SCHULLER

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"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN

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“Most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”

HENRY FORD

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“One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.”

HENRY FORD

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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

NAPOLEON HILL

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"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality."

EARL NIGHTINGALE

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"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

HENRY VAN DYKE

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“Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.”

ROGER LESTRANGE

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"My creed is this: Happiness is the only good.
The place to be happy is here.
The time to be happy is now.
The way to be happy is to make others so."

ROBERT INGERSOLL

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"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."

BRIAN TRACY

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“God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey.”

MELANIE KLEIN

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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

SAMUEL JOHNSON

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"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'"

BRIAN TRACY

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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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"There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance."

VASH YOUNG

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"Never underestimate the ability of a small group of dedicated people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

MARAGRET MEAD

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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 EDISON

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"Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

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“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”

CHARLES F. KETTERING

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“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

ROBERT BRAULT

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“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. ”

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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“Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will.”

DR. ROBERT ANTHONY

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“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

SYDNEY J/ HARRIS

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“Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.”

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

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“May the stars carry your sadness away, May the flowers fill your heart with beauty, May hope forever wipe away your tears, And, above all, may silence make you strong.”

DAN GEORGE

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“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

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“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word, excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

PEARL S. BUCK

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“Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace, and power in it.”

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”

SOREN KIERKEGAARD

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“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”

CARL SCHURZ

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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

JAMES BALDWIN

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