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Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.
- William James
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A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
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The greatest discovery of any generation
is that a human being
can alter his life by
altering his attitude
- William James
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
This overcoming of all the usual barriers
between the individual and the Absolute
is the great mystic achievement.
In mystic states we both become one with the Absolute
and we become aware of our oneness.
This is the everlasting and triumphant mystical tradition,
hardly altered by differences of clime or creed.
- William James
The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- William James
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
Success has a simple formula:
do your best, and people may like it.
- Sam Ewing
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason,
to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll 
(Alice in Wonderland)
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
- Tony Robbins
Success comes from knowing that
you did your best to become the best
that you are capable of becoming.
- John Wooden
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The only roadblock to success is limited thinking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The boldness of endurance is
the underline to almost every success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The key to happiness is having dreams.
The key to success is making your dreams come true.
- Anonymous
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
A person acting from a motivation
of contribution and service
rises to such a level of moral authority
that worldly success is a natural result.
- Marianne Williamson
Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready
for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby
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 touch down.
- Ross Perot
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins
Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda
To know even one life has
breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
- Milton Berle
Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
- B. C. Forbes
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
- Seneca
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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