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The future belongs to the risk takers, not the security seekers. Life is perverse in the sense that the more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Anonymous
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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”
Audrey Hepburn
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Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be
Grandma Moses
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It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
Ann Landers
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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
Vincent van Gogh
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You become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey
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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
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Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
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Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Aristotle
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You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus
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The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
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If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
Tony Robbins
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Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
John Maxwell
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We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon Suenens
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Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
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As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.
Donald Trump
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Greats minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Hugh C Cameron
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Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.
Warren Buffett
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High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Sometimes our candle goes out, but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.
Albert Schweitzer
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If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
Edward Butler
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Don’t play for safety. It’s the most dangerous thing in the world.
Hugh Walpole
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To get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
Mark Twain
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The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural resources- though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because the average person goes to his grave with his music still in him.
Oliver Wendell Homes
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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet
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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
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The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
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The great use of life is to spend it doing something that will outlast it.
William James
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People die of fright and confidence.
Henry David Thoreau
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In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
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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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Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.
Jerry Rice
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When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
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Nobodygrows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur
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A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
Thomas Scott
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You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
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The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorties.
Stephen Covey
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When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg
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As I grow Older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
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Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
Oprah Winfrey
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Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody things of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Shulz
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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You’ve got to get to the state in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing
Arthur Ashe
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
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Go out on a limb- that’s where the fruit is.
Will Rogers
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There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
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The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner
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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.
Booker T. Washington
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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
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Do not fear going slowly; fear only to stand still.
Chinese Proverb
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A woman with ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
Donald Kircher
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
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The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who you are, is a great thing.
Bobby Bonilla
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Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change- from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
Edwin Louis Cole
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I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
Martha Beck
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton
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Without a compelling cause, our employees are just putting in time. Their minds might be engaged, but their hearts are not. Meaning precedes motivation.
Lee J. Colan
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I don’t believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
Ronald Reagan
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The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
Oprah Winfrey
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha
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I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.
Herbie Hancock
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My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
William Rosenberg
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they will soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve
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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, lecturer
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You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox, writer
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success, but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Madeleine Albright, secretary of state
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left in your character.
Vince Gill, Musician
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Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson Sr, executive
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Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter.
Dan Reeves, Football Coach
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne, Actor
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela, Civil Rights Leader
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President
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Your company’s most valuable asset is how it is knows to its customers.
Brian Tracy, Author
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Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.
Woodrow Wilson, 28th U S President
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do then 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, Author
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You are accountable for what you do, and no one else is accountable.
Edith Martin
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States
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Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
Albert Einstein, scientist
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Success is merely the process of fulfilling your own hopes and dreams- not the standards set by society, but the standards set by you.
George Pataki, New York Governor
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It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
Jacki Joyner-Kersee, Athlete
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Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson, Essayist, Lexicographer
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The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.
Confucius, philosopher
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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill, Pioneer of Personal Achievement Philosophy
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver, Botanist
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There are risks and costs to a plan of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
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Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men’s souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal, Writer
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In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Max Dupree, Author
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
Tyron Edwards, American Theologian
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Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host
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A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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