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If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
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Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
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There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You're standing on the threshold of success.
Don't look down, it'll make you dizzy.
- the character Timothy Q. Mouse in the Walt Disney movie Dumbo
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
You don't get to choose how you're going to die,
only how you're going to live.
- Joan Baez
Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
- Joseph P. Kennedy
Don't live down to expectations.
Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
You cannot soar with eagles when you are running with ducks.
- Anonymous
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau
We can never get enough of what we don't really need.
- Matthew Kelly
Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock
He is able who thinks he is able.
- The Buddha
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill
If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
Take charge of your life!
You are responsible to yourself - not to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush.
Don't race around.
Sure and steady gets you there every time.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus
Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day;
live life to the fullest;
make the most of what you have.
It is later than you think.
- Horace
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
- Ovid
Providence has its appointed hour for everything.
We cannot command results, we can only strive.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
You can do anything you put your mind to.
- Anonymous
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Most of the shadows of life are caused
by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus
It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates
How you respond to the challenge in the second half
will determine what you become after the game,
whether you are a winner or a loser.
- Lou Holtz
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't Limit Your Challenges... Challenge Your Limits.
- Anonymous
A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab
An idea that is developed and put into action
is more important than
an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha
A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs
Don't Wait!
Start on your dreams, your impulses,
your longings, your special occasions today.
Because this is your moment.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new
continents and worlds within you,
opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
- Henry David Thoreau
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