NEW BOOK: TREASURE: PERSONAL GUIDE TO AN INSPIRED LIFE
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"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali
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"Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed." - Eileen Caddy
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"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer." – Nolan Bushnell
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"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!" - Paul J. Meyer
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"Keep away from small 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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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service." - John Burroughs
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"To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it." - Bunker Hunt
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"You just can't beat the person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth
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"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through." - F.W. Nichol
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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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"If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them." - Yogi Berra
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"Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude." – W. Clement Stone
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"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters
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"What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson
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"We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'" - Blackhawk
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"Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine." - Napoleon Hill
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"The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do." - Dennis Waitley
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"Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others." - Danny Thomas
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale
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"One man with courage is a majority." - Andrew Jackson
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"Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces." – Joseph Sugarman
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"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'" - Robert Schuller
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"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - George Patton
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"One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything." - Scott Reed
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"Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success." - Stephen Covey
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"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." - Albert Schweitzer
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"Success is the child of audacity." - Benjamin Disraeli
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"Teamwork is the long word for success." - Jacquelinemae A. Rudd
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"Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive." - Lori Hard
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"You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals." - Booker T. Washington
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"In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time." – Anthony J. D'Angelo
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"Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there." - Marcus Washling
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"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!" - Jim Ryun
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." – Albert Einstein
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"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." – T.S. Eliot
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"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions." - Charles F. Kettering
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"People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success." - Pete Zafra
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"No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement." - Greg Henry Quinn
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"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win." - Shelley Long
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"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda
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"The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." - Cecil B. DeMille
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"One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'" - Margaret Thatcher
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"It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny." – Anthony Robbins
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"Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive." - Og Mandino
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"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves." - Marie Curie
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"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley
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"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems." - Stephen Covey
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"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it." - Alistair Cooke
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"Whatever your grade or position, if you know how and when to speak, and when to remain silent, your chances of real success are proportionately increased." – Ralph C. Smedley
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"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature." - John D. Rockefeller
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"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." - Bertrand Russel
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"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." - Joseph Sugarman
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"Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation." - Napoleon Hill
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"Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control." - Booker T. Washington
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"Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit." - Plato
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"You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is. It's how we use it that makes things possible." - Henry Ford
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"I don't have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be." - Muhammad Ali
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"The highest reward for one's toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it." - John Ruskin
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"I studied the lives of great men and women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." - Harry S. Truman
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"The seat of freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work, does what he wants to do." - George Robin Collingwood
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"Success is measured in terms of reaching your goals, dreams, and expectations. Your success is determined by hard work, persistence, and determination. If you are going to be a success in life, it is up to you... it is your responsibility." - Will Horton
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"The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think." - Dean Francis
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." – Les Brown
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"What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help." - Donald Keough
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"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong." - Warren Buffett
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"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." – Roger Babson
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"Success is a journey, not a destination." - Ben Sweetland
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"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothea Brande
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"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." – Al Bernstein
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"You can do it if you believe you can." - Napoleon Hill
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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
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"I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind." - George Bernard Shaw
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"You must do the very thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse-sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success." - Dale Carnegie
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"It's 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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"The biggest temptation is to settle for too little." - Thomas Merton
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"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." - Oscar Wilde
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"Don't dream it. Be it!" - Richard O'brian
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"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." - Bessie Anderson Stanley
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"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts
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"Henry Ford could get anything out of men because he just talked and would tell them stories. He'd never say, 'I want this done!' He'd say, 'I wonder if we can do it.'" - George Brown
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allen Poe
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"The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true." - James Allen
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"Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them." – Rick Warren
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"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." – Orison Swett Marden
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"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn
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"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader
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"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets." - Michael Korda
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"Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work." – Booker T. Washington
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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you." - Brian Tracy
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"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't you won't." - Bruce Jenner
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"Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top." - J.C. Penny
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"Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds." - Charles Lindbergh
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"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure." - David Ambrose
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn
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"Your success and happiness lie in you." - Helen Keller
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"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." - John Maxwell
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"The only difference between a success and a failure is that the successful person is willing to do what the failure is not willing to do." - J.R. Ridinger
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"The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones." - Chinese Proverb
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"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." - Vincent Lombardi
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." - Albert Einstein
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Successful leaders recognize that great innovation comes from observing the same ideas as everyone else and seeing something different." - Reed Markham
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"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Anthony Robbins
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"Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success and achievements want to make you proud." - Bishop Leonard Umunna
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"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way." - Dale Carnegie
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"Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing there is a solution paves the way to a solution." - Dr. David Schwartz
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"All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." - Brian Tracy
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"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes." – Benjamin Disraeli
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"We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond." – Marcel Proust
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"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." - Charles Kendall Adams
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"I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody." – Andrew Jackson
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"You don't become enormously successful without encountering some really interesting problems." - Mark Victor Hansen
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"I've always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up." - Beverly Sills
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"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him." - Booker T. Washington
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"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back." - Babe Ruth
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell
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"Success is every minute you live. It's the process of living. It's stopping for the moments of beauty, of pleasure; the moments of peace. Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of the journey." – Jennifer James
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"I praise loudly; I blame softly." - Queen Catherine II
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"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable." - Francis Bacon
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"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed." - Napoleon Hill
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"You've got to win in your mind before you win in your life." - John Addison
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"Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow is wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps." - Eileen Caddy
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"Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom." - George Patton
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"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge." - Henry Charles Bukowski
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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." - Publilius Syrus
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"The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end." - Genghis Khan
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"To move the world we must first move ourselves." - Socrates
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"Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly." - Cecil B. De Mille
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"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed." – Henry Ford
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"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be." – Harvey Mackay
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"Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements." - Walt Disney
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"Winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts." – Sylvester Stallone
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"When you miss a shot, never think of what you did wrong. Take the next shot thinking of what you must do right." - Tony Alfonso
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"Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event." - Brian Tracy
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"A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy." - Robert J. Lumsden
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"The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves." – Swami Vivekananda
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"Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there." – William Blake
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"Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals." – Paul J. Meyer
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." – Booker T. Washington
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"The secret of success is consistency of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
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"It's not that I'm so smart; it's just that I stay with problems longer." – Albert Einstein
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
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"Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required." – Sir Winston Churchill
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"The path to success is to take massive, determined action." - Anthony Robbins
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"Live out of your imagination, not your history." - Stephen Covey
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"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." - Colin Powell
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"Forget yourself and start to work." - Gordon B. Hinckley
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"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves." - Zig Ziglar
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"Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln
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"One must have strategies to execute dreams." - Azim Premji
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"Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us." - Sidney Powell
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"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
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"Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Rene Descartes
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"Success equals goals... all else is commentary." - Brian Tracy
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"If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe." - John Maxwell
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." – Bill Cosby
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"The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work." – Arthur Brisbane
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"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted." - David Bly
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"As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big." - Donald Trump
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"Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out." – Robert Collier
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"No man is ever whipped until he quits - in his own mind." - Napoleon Hill
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"Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy. You might know how to read, but more importantly, what's your plan to read?" - Jim Rohn
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -