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Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
-
Herbert Kaufman
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
- not going all the way and not starting.
- The Buddha
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
-
Helen Keller
True courage is taking another small step each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence in
creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-
Napoleon Hill
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and then starting on the first one.
-
Mark Twain
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
-
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake
Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Saying
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
- Satchel Paige
Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St.
Francis of Assisi
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
Success depends upon previous preparation,
and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
-
Napoleon Hill
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
-
Bill Gates
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Failure does not exist.
Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed.
Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way,
then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer
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
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran
Visualize your end result as having already been accomplished.
Let the image of your success play on the giant screen
in full color with surround sound - so real you can smell and taste it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The difference between school and life?
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
- Tom Bodett
The success of a project is best predicted by the enthusiasm of its participants.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-
Helen Keller
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-
Thomas A. Edison
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
-
Ross Perot
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
-
Louisa May Alcott
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction,
or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
-
Lee Iacocca
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-
Peter Drucker
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