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MotivQuotes Volume 2 365 Positive, Motivational Quotes one for each day or study ahead
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MotivQuotesVolume 2

365 Positive, Motivational Quotes one for each day or study ahead

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“Success is largely a matter of holding on when all others have let go.”

~ Anonymous

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“Effective people are not problem-minded, they are opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”

~ Stephen Covey

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“Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live for them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

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“It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.”

~ Orison Swett Marden

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"The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't."

~ Zig Ziglar

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“It’s enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they read them. If it is good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.”

~ Ernest Hemingway

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“High expectations are the key to everything.”

~Sam Walton

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"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

~ Thomas Jefferson

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“Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.”

~ Grenville Kleiser

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“Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, being all we can be.”

~ Zig Ziglar

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“There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it is what we do with them that’s important.”

~ Ruth Ross

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“If you expect nothing, you’re apt to be surprised. You’ll get it.”

~Malcom S. Forbes

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“Only as high as I reach, can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.”

~ Karen Ravn

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“In the long run men hit only at what they aim.”

~Henry David Thoreau

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“You can’t put a price tag on the American Dream. That dream is the heart and soul of America; it is the promise that keeps our nation forever good and generous, a model and hope to the world.”

~ President Ronald ReaganOctober 22, 1986

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“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will break our hearts…”

~ Robert Fulghum

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“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

~ Anthony Robbins

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“It is simply a matter of what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.”

~ John R. Amos

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“Kindness is the life’s blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love … Kindness is good will. Kindness says, “I want you to be happy.” Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God.”

~ Randolph Ray

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“It is always your next move.”

~Napoleon Hill

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“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.”

~ Helen Keller

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“One of the most difficult things is to not to change society – but to change yourself.”

~ Nelson Mandela

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“In times of great stress or adversity, it is always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy in to something positive.”

~ Lee Iaccoca

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“When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things, define the moment or let the moment define you.”

~ Tin Cup

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“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.”

~ Jonathan Swift

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“Our lives improve only when we take chances…and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

~ Walter Anderson

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“In golf and in life, it doesn’t matter how far you hit the ball. It is how close do you come to the cup that counts.”

~ Tin Cup

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“It is you. YOU define your limits. And it is you who can expand them when you are ready. Now is the time to create goals high enough to ignite your spirit and inspire you to take action.”

~ E.R. Haas

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"Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.“

~ Christiane Northrup, M.D.

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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 Iaccoca

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“Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.”

~ John Wooden

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“This is a prescription for successful achievement. No, it does not come easy. You have to work it hard… work it smart… and stay in the game long enough to win. When you do, you will not only be successful, but happy as well.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.”

~ Helen Keller

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"Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. "

~ Leo Buscaglia

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“Twenty years from now you will become more disappointed by the things 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.”

~Mark Twain

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“Unless a man undertakes more than he can do, he will never do all than he can.”

~ Henry Drummond

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“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.”

~ Edward R. Murrow

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“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but that life itself would become different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.”

~ Katherine Mansfield

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“The true greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom is a happy mind.”

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.”

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

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“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

~ Andrew Carnegie

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“The discipline of writing something down is the first step for making it happen.”

~ Lee Iaccoca

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

~ Coco Chanel

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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

~Lao Tzu

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“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

~ Agnes Repplier

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“Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.”

~ Randolph S. Bourne

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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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“One should count each day a separate life.”

~ Seneca

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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 and get him to inspire his people.”

~ Lee Iaccoca

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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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“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than any other under the sun.”

~ John D. Rockefeller

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“There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.”

~ Hugh Prather

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“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them, and reward them. If you do these things effectively, you can’t miss.”

~ Lee Iaccoca

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“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take gets us to the wrong place faster.”

~ Stephen Covey

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“The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”

~ Frederico Fellini

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“Rule number 1 is, “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”

Rule number 2 is, “It is all small stuff.”

~ Robert Eliot

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"It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude."

~Wallace D. Wattles

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“Practice the presence of God just as you would practice music.”

~ Emilie Cady

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“Three things in human life are important:  The first is to be kind. The 2nd is to be kind.  The third is to be kind.”

~William James

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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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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step on the way.”

~ Dr. Wayne Dyer

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“Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focus on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what’s really important.”

~ Stephen Covey

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"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and expect only the best.

~ Christian D. Larson

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“The grass is not, in fact, greener on the other side of the fence.. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”

~ Robert Fulghum

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“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

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"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.“

~ Thomas Alva Edison

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"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.”

~ Doris Lessing

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"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action."

~ Napoleon Hill

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“A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”

~ David Gergen

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“Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"

~ Lawrence G. Lovasik

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“I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.”

~ Stephen Covey

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“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”

~ Patricia Neal

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“One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.”

~Deepak Chopra

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“Think you can’t change the world? Too late you already have. It was changed for the better the minute you were born. There are more people than you can imagine who will never be the same because they came in contact with you, if for only a fleeting moment.”

~ Gail Pursell Elliott

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“Truly greater is the power within you than any other power on earth.”

~ William Arthur Ward

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"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

~ Jonathan Kozol

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“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

~ Dale Carnegie

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“You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."

~ Ernie Banks

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“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

~Tallulah Bankhead

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“It is the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”

~ Claude M. Bristol

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“It has 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.”

~ Elinor Smith

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“Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.”

~ Christopher Reeve

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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 started.”

~ David Allen

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“Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

~ Charles Caleb Cotton

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“The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.”

~ John Scully

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“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

~ Coco Chanel

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“People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.”

~ Harvey Mackay

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“Success isn’t permanent and failure isn’t fatal.”

~ Mike Ditka

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“Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.”

~ Mark Twain

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“Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going to fast- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”

~ Eddie Cantor

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“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised that it comes off in his hand, and that it is only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything , but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.”

~ Helen Keller

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“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”

~ Helen Keller

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“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”

~ Sir Winston Churchill

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“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one at a time.”

~ Sydney Smiles

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“Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.“

~ Brian Tracy

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“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.”

~Sir Winston Churchill

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"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

~ Dale Carnegie

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“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight."

~ Jim Rohn

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“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy or troubled we feel, we can be find something to be thankful for.”

~ Terry Lynn Taylor

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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

~Maria Robinson

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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune….

We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.”

~ Oprah Winfrey

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"How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

-Trina Paulus

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“Be not simply good, be good for something.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.”

~ Denis Waitley

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“Learn everything you can , anytime you can, from anyone you can- there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.”

~ Sarah Caldwell

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“Power is the ability to do good things for others.”

~ Brooke Astor

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“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.”

~ James Allen 

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“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”

~ Josh Billings

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“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.”

~ John Holt

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“If there are a hundred steps In thy path to success

And you have not reached it In ninety-nine of them

Do not conclude That the journey is a failure.”

~ Sir Lancelot

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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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“The most important words we'll ever utter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we're by ourselves.”

~ Al Walker

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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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“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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.”

~ Herman Cain

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“Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that things that work well and are worthily done make life truly worth living.”

~ Grenville Kleiser

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“It is the ‘follow-through’ that makes the difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.”

~ Charles F. Kettering

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“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”

~ Louise Hay

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“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”

~ Coleman Hawkings

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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

~ Pablo Picasso

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“To insist on one’s place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.

To empower others in their reaching for someplace in the scheme of things.

To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.”

~ Robert Fulghum

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“Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

~ Harvey Fierstein

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“At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.”

~ Christopher Reeve

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“Experience tells you what to do, confidence allows you to do it.”

~ Stan Smith

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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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“No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.”

~ Channing Pollock

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“Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.”

~Marcia Weider

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“Never think of God’s delays as God’s denials. Hold on, hold fast, hold out. Patience is genius.”

~ Comte de Buffon

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“When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.”

~ Arland Gilbert

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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

~Zig Ziglar

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“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence- is the key to unlocking our potential.”

~ Sir Winston Churchill

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"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are."

~ Calvin & Hobbes

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“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.”

~ Ben Franklin

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“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.”

~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

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"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle, The other is as though everything is a miracle. I believe in the latter."

~ Albert Einstein

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"One ship drives east and another drives west with the selfsame winds that blow.'Tis the set of sails and not the gales which tells us the way to go. “

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

~ Rene Descartes

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“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and has made the Lord his hope and confidence.”

~ Jeremiah 17:7

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“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”

~ Albert Einstein

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: ‘Leave no stone unturned.’”

~ Edward Bulwer Lytton

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“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

~ Leon J. Suenes

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“We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.”

~ Cicero

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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

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“To every problem there is already a solution, whether you know it or not. To every sum in mathematics there is already a correct answer, whether the mathematicians has found it or not.”

~ Grenville Kleiser

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“Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. A person who follows in another's track leaves no footprints. Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

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“The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

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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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“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

~ General George S. Patton

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”

~ Aristotle

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“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

~ Albert Einstein

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“Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.”

~Mary Kay Ash

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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing cam be done without hope and confidence.”

~ Helen Keller

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“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”

~ William James

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“The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid.”

~ Confucius

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‘Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”

~ Vince Lombardi

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“Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”

~ Robert F. Kennedy

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“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.”

~ Aldous Huxley

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“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

~ Andrew Carnegie

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

~ Epictetus

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“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”

~ John Muir

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“Far away 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.”

~ Louise May Alcott

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“All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.”

~ T.E. Lawrence

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“Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.”

~ Nitin Nohria

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“It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.”

~ Sir Winston Churchill

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“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man.”

~ William Shakespeare

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“The only time we should look back to yesterday is to look at the positive things that were accomplished to encourage us to do better things today and tomorrow.”

~ Stevie Wonder

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“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

~ Solon

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“A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.”

~ Basil

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“Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.”

~ Jean Paul Richter

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“We were born to succeed, not to fail.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

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“We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would get an entirely different view.”

~ Mao Tse-Tung

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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few people engage in it.”

~ Henry Ford

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“People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.”

~ Robert Half

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“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping stone in the path of the strong.”

~ Thomas Carlyle

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“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.”

~ B. R. Haydon

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“Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

~ Henry Ward Beecher

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“Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in what ever condition you may find yourself.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“The fact is, that to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”

~ Robert Cushing

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“Our ideas, like orange plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.”

~ Edward Bulwer Lytton

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“What does the Lord require of you? To act justly and love mercy and walk humbly with your God.”

~ Micah 6:8Holy Bible

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“A real decision is measured by the fact that you have taken a new action. If there is no action, you haven’t truly decided.”

~ Tony Robbins

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“Courage is resistance to fear, Mastery of fear- not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.”

~ Mark Twain

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“Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.”

~ Anonymous

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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.

No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

~ Elbert Hubbard

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“Mistakes are part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it is a fatal mistake, which, of course, others can learn from.”

~ Al Franken

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“The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day… I am convinced life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…. We are in charge of our attitudes.”

~ Charles Swindoll

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“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

~ John C. Maxwell

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“The only job where you start at the top is digging a hole.”

~ Anonymous

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“A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”

~ Anonymous

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“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

~ Joshua J. Marine

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“We are like tea bags- we don’t know our own strength until we get in hot water.”

~ Sister Busche

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“Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right.”

~ I Peter

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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

~ Mark Twain

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“Smooth seas do not a good ship’s Captain make.”

~ Wayne C. Church

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“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to be needed.”

~ Storm Jameson

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“You are here to enable the Divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!”

~ Wayne C. Church

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“It may not be your fault that you are down, but it’s got to be your fault for not getting up.”

~ Steve Davis

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

~ Ambrose Redmoon

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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”

~ Keshavan Nair

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“If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what is important and then give it all you got.”

~ Lee Iacocca

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“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

~ Pablo Picasso

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“How ever mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault –finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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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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“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

~ John Quincy Adams

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“The willow knows what the storm does not; that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.”

~ Blood of the Martyr

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“ To reach the port we must sometimes sail with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.”

~ Irving Berlin

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“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.”

~ St. Francis De Sales

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“The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.”

~ Anonymous

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“There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.”

~ Anonymous

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“Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it… we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.”

~ Aristotle

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“It is easier to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent.”

~ Wayne Church

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“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”

~ Helen Keller

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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

~Ann Landers

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“Honest measures and weights are the Lord’s delight.”

Proverbs 16:11~The Bible

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“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

~ Charles H. Spurgeon

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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.”

~ George Washington

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“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

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“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it is holy ground. There is no greater investment.”

~ Stephen Covey

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“The starting point of achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires produce weak results, just as a small amount of fire produces a small amount of heat.”

~ Napoleon Hill

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“I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.”

~ Wayne Dyer

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“The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.”

~ John Pierpont Morgan

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“The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you are wasting. It’s up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.”

~ Derek Jeter

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"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

~ Richard Bach

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“ A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

~ George S. Patton

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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of Wisdom.”

~ Thomas Jefferson

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“He gives strength and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; They will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint.”

~ Isaiah 40: 29-31

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“It is important that you strive for humility, but not humiliation, for a cool-headed confidence, not a stiff, delusional arrogance.”

~ Michael Johnson

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“It is easier 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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“Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. Not something to wish for but to attain.”

~ Williams Jennings Bryan

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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a great deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”

~ Leo Tolstoy

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“The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. We need to be careful, upon achieving happiness, not to lose the virtues which have produced it.”

~ Harry Harrison

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“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.”

~ Jonathan Winters

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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”

~ Winston Churchill

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“A ship is safe in a harbor, but that is not what a ship is for.”

~ William Shedd

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“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.”

~ Hermann Hesse

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“Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.”

~ Christy Borgeld

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

~ Frederick Douglass

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“What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.”

~ Winston Churchill

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“Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.”

~ Henry Steele Commager

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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”

~ Nicholas Murray Butler

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“There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

~ John Andrew Holmes, Jr.

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“You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.”

~ Jim Rohn

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“ Live in your imagination today, for tomorrow it can become your reality.”

~ Kevin Eiken Berry

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.“

~ Anais Nin

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“ If you want to knock off two birds with one stone, arrange for them to be in the same spot at the same time.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.”

~ Tom Clancy

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“It’s nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.”

~ Rodney Dangerfield

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“When you finally go for it today, act as if it were impossible to fail. The confidence and enthusiasm you generate will ensure the best possible result.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, ‘What happened?’…

~ Anonymous

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“ If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."

~ Frank Outlaw

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"The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate."

~ John Ruskin

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“The 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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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night.”

~ Edgar Allen Poe

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“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness , and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to today.

~ Anonymous

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“Many of the things you count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.”

~ Albert Einstein

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“In order to do what really matters to you, you have to, first of all, know what really matters to you.”

~ Dr. Edward Hallowell

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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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"It's never too late to be who you might have been.“

~ George Eliot

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“Follow your heart first. Then lead with your goals.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“It is 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 Toynbee

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“The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes.”

~ Benjamin Disreali

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“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”

~ Helen Keller

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“When you find yourself spinning your wheels, change the terrain.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing you have received– only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.”

~ St. Francis of Assisi

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“Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.”

~ A.E. Hotchner

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“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever you goal, you can bet there if you are willing to work.”

~ Ophra Winfrey

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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

~ Michel de Montaigne

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“There are no limitations to your visions, except those which you impose on them. Never limit yourself by limiting your visions.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. there are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.”

~ Darwin P. Kingsley

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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

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“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

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

~ John Wooden

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“The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.”

~ Nelson Boswell

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"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are."

~ Julia Cameron

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“All of our dreams can come true- if we have the courage to pursue them.”

~ Walt Disney

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Make this day count. "If one advances confidently in the direction of dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

~ Henry David Thoreau

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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

~ Babe Ruth

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"People talk about finding their lives. In reality, your life is not something you find - it's something you create."

~ David Phillips

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“There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

~ John F. Kennedy

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“ A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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“Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.”

~ Helen Gahagan Douglas

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“Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.”

~ William Feather

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"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger, the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of danger--but recognize the opportunity."

~ John F. Kennedy

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" Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -- and we will make the goal. "

~ Jerome P. Fleishman

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"It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference."

~ Jenny Craig

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“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”

~ Gordon Parks

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“I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion, -- the religion of well-doing and daring, men of sturdy truth, men of integrity and feeling for others.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.”

~ Les Giblin

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"Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."

~ Leroy "Satchel" Paige

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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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“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”

~ Les Brown

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“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

~ Charles M. Schwab

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“Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.”

~ Denis Waitley

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"Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.”

~ Ivern Ball

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“If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.”

~ George Matthew Adams

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"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur."

~ Vince Lombardi

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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

~ Stephen R. Covey

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“Without goals and a plan to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.”

~ Fitzhugh Dodson

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“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.”

~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities– always see them, for they are always there.”

~ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

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“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

~ Ken Hudgins

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“Planning is deciding. If you can’t decide which of your options to take, imagine that you don’t have to do it yourself. Plan it for someone else.”

~ E.R. Haas

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"If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.“

~ Marilyn vos Savant

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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

~ Winston Churchill

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“ Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings for a little time at least.”

~ Charley Willey

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“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.”

~ Alexander Graham Bell

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"There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire."

~ Andrew Carnegie

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“You’re the director– call for action and roll the cameras.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

~ Max DePree

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“Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle that requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.”

~Henry David Thoreau

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“The greatest accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas, into enthusiasm, into actions.”

~ Thomas J. Vilord

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“Do not not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

~ Harold R. McAlindon

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“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

~ Publilius Syrus

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“The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.”

~ Publilius Syrus

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“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

~ Walt Disney

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“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.”

~ Evan Esar

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“Nature and wisdom are never at strife.”

~ Plutarch

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“The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second is listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.”

~ Solomon ibn Gabriol

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"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love..."

~ Marcus Aurelius

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“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

~ Helen Keller

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“If you don’t know where you are going, you will end up someplace else.”

~ Yogi Berra

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“When you are making a success of something, it’s not work. It is a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.”

~Andrew Granatelli

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“Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."

~ Arthur Rubinstein

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“The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive."

~ Joe Batten

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“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.”

~ Stephen Covey

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“Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you expected.”

~ Robert Half

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“Live a balanced life—learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

~ Robert Fulghum

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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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“Don’t give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.”

~ Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant

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“Forcing yourself to continue a task, after your enthusiasm is gone, won't do you any favors. Switch to another type of task for a while -- give yourself a chance to recharge.”

~ E.R. Haas

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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

~ Helen Keller

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"Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others."

~ William Arthur Ward

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

~ Wayne Dyer

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"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

~ B. C. Forbes

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“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.”

~ Satchel Paige

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"The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.“

~ Dr. Mardy Grothe

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"Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.“

~ Erica Jong

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“If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself."

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

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"The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.“

~ Roger Birkman

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“True friends are those who, when you make a fool of yourself, don't believe that this condition is permanent.”

~ Erwin T. Randall

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This is the end of a year of good, positive, sometimes funny, certainly motivational quotes collected to make every day a great day.

Actually, that is not true. Volume 2 is the second of a collection of good, positive, sometimes funny, certainly motivational quotes put together to make every day a great day.

If you don’t have it , buy it now. There are no duplicates between any of the three collections. Contact [email protected] to order.

God Bless you!!!~ Wayne C. Church


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