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"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get." – Scott Alexander

 

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"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom." - James Allen

 

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"The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

 

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"The road to success is always under construction." - Lily Tomlin

 

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"Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality." - L.J. Cardina Suenens

 

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"They can because they think they can." - Virgil

 

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"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." - Tobias Wolff

 

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"Success 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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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail." - Henry David Thoreau

 

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"It's no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill

 

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"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life." - Alex Noble

 

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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go." - T.S. Eliot

 

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"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." - Charles Schwab

 

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"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication." - Michael Gerber

 

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"One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success." - Napoleon Hill

 

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"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough." - Helen Keller

 

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"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather

 

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"Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price." - Vince Lombardi

 

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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

 

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"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success." - Malcolm Forbes

 

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"In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

 

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"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you are doing, love what you are doing, and believe in what you are doing." - Will Rogers

 

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"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." – William James

 

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"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk." - J.C. Penney

 

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"The successful man is one who had the chance and took it." - Roger Babson

 

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"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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"If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances." - Julia Soul

 

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"Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." - Aristotle

 

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"The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it." - Sir William Osler

 

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"Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise." - Ayn Rand

 

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"The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right." - Peter Drucker

 

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"I have failed over and over again - that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

 

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"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - Thomas Henry Huxley

 

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"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success." - B.C. Forbes

 

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"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden

 

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"Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life ... live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." - Joe Knapp

 

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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

 

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"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspired the power and energy to get it done." - Ralph Lauren

 

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"What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve." - Napoleon Hill

 

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"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford

 

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"Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can." - Richard Bach

 

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"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale

 

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"Spectacular achievements are always preceded by painstaking preparation." - Roger Staubach

 

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"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." - Thomas Edison

 

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"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step." - Lao-Tse

 

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"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have." - Zig Ziglar

 

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"The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow." - William Boetcker

 

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"Do what you can with what you have where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

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"Failure is the tuition you pay for success." - Walter Brunell

 

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"Real wealth equals ideas plus energy." - Buckminster Fuller

 

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"We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers." - Woodrow Wilson

 

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"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - Lee Iococca

 

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"Private victories precede public victories." - Stephen R. Covey

 

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"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes." - Washington Irving

 

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"The common denominator of success is in forming the habit of doing the things that failures don't like to do." - Albert Gray

 

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"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." - John D. Rockefeller

 

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"I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better." - Frank Hughes

 

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"Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were, and say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw

 

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"Perseverance is a great element of success." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

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"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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"A person's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things." – Wallace D. Wattles

 

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"Success demands singleness of purpose." - Vince Lombardi

 

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"A man is but of product of his thought, What he thinks he becomes." – Mahatma Gandhi

 

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"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." - Anthony Robbins

 

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"First, say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do." - Epictetus

 

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"If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself." – Brian Tracy

 

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"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." - Duke Ellington

 

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"Nature gave men two ends... one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most." - George R. Kilpatrick

 

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"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do." - James Allen

 

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"It is observed that successful people get ahead in the time that other people waste." – Henry Ford

 

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"You see things and say, 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw

 

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

 

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"You must have long range goals to keep from being frustrated by short-term failures." – Bob Bales

 

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"I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed." - Robert Schuller

 

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"What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe

 

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"Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson

 

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"Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it." - Ovid

 

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"I don't dream at night, I dream all day. I dream for a living." - Steven Spielberg

 

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"Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success. For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles." - Sydney Bremer

 

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"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." – Confucius

 

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"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere." – Henry Kissinger

 

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"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov

 

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"Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill." - Zig Ziglar

 

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"Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently." - William A. Ward

 

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"I never waste time looking back." - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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"Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?" - Napoleon Hill

 

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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men." - Goethe

 

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"I am a slow walker ... but I never walk backwards." - Abraham Lincoln

 

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"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding, and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself." - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

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"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision." - Peter F. Drucker

 

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"The road to success runs uphill." - Willie Davis

 

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"Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort." - Charles Givens

 

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"The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential." - Paul J. Meyer

 

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"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." - Norman Vincent Peale

 

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"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Al Batt

 

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"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." – Dale Carnegie

 

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"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work." - Sister Mary Lauretta

 

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"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill

 

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"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments." - Henry Ward Beecher

 

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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The phrase 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - Calvin Coolidge

 

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If you work real hard and are kind, amazing things will happen.

 

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One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

 

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Wisdom is not an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.

 

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Fall down seven times | Stand up eight

 

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We all have scars. We all have stories.

 

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Some days you’re the bug, some days you are the windshield.

 

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The best ideas can hit you when you least expect. Keep a pen handy

 

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Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t deal with drugs.

 

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I don’t hate people (i just feel better when they’re not around)

 

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Now comes the mystery – Henry Ward Beecher

 

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Caution: Exposure to banned books may lead to unexpected enjoyment.

 

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Goals are dreams with deadlines

 

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Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

 

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It’s never too late to see the light in the distance

 

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Inspiration exists but it has to find you working.

 

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Not all those who wander are lost

 

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

 

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You are who you are when no one is looking.

 

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Swagger is something you earn.

 

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Nothing in life is fixed or set in stone, so get the hell outta there and CARPE the HELL out of the diem.

 

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Never regret! if it’s good, It’s wonderful. If it’s Bad, it’s experience

 

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Don’t Die Wondering!

 

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

 

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Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever

 

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The world is cruel and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.

 

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You’d be surprised how often “What if” works.

 

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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch

 

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Imagination is more important than knowledge

 

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Every Accomplishment begins with the decision to try.

 

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Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare.

 

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A Good Traveler has no fixed plans & is not intent on arriving

 

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour & catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain.

 

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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

 

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Behind everything beautiful, there has been some kind of pain.

 

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A new day will dawn, for those who stand long.

 

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All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it yet.

 

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When we have lost everything, including hope; life becomes a disgrace & death a duty.

 

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Take a deep breath, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, & start all over again.

 

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Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere. – Albert Einstein Quote

 

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Listen to the sound of silence

 

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Like all great travelers, i have seen more than i remember, and remember more than i have seen. Benjamin Disraeti

 

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Choose to chance the rapids & dare to dance the tides.

 

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I don’t have the courage to face reality so i get lost in my dreams

 

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Look back. Laugh, cry, remember a common man to get inspiration from.

 

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Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful

 

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It is time now to let go of the past and embrace all that awaits you

 

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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

 

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Life is a constant exchange of beauty and wisdom

 

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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music

 

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Never miss an opportunity to see something beautiful.

 

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That was all a man needed: HOPE It was lack of hope that discouraged a man

 

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All glory comes from daring to begin

 

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If you never try, you’ll never know

 

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore

 

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Be brave take risks. Nothing can substitute experience

 

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Bad Decisions make great stories

 

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The power of imagination makes us infinite

 

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Great hopes make great men

 

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There is nothing impossible to him who will try

 

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Always desire to learn something useful

 

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The best way to get something done is to begin

 

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That’s the thing about books: They let you travel without moving your feet

 

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Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places

 

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Anthony Robbins once said, “Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment.”

 

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“Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.” – JIM ROHN

I strongly believe in the principle of giving and receiving. When you give, you find out that your hands and heart are open and that openness of hands and heart allows you to receive much more in abundance. On the other hand, when we withhold from selfless contribution, that closed hands and heart hinders us from receiving life’s abundance. The sure to create abundance, is through selfless contribution.

 

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“Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.” – SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL

Selfless contribution literally puts you in a state of self-awareness to know how blessed you are. It lets you take cognizance of the abundance that have been freely given you and helps you develop an attitude of gratitude.

The beauty of selfless contribution is that by giving away a portion of what you have, you are teaching your brain that you have more than enough and through a conscious commitment to give each day, you’ll be beyond scarcity, and that belief system alone will change your life.

Through selfless contribution, we allow ourselves the privilege to connect at a deeper with other people. We experience the joy that comes from interconnectedness in a society that encourages independence, where a lot of people take a selfish outlook on life forgetting to think about everyone around them.

 

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“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.”

 

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Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

 

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

 

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Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

 

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

 

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Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

 

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

 

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Either you run the day or the day runs you.

 

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“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”

 

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

 

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

 

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

 

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 “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

 

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“Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”

 

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

 

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“The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.”

 

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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you.

Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

 

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Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

 

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Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

 

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You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

 

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Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

 

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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

 

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Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

 

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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

 

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Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

 

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“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

 

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“Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs”

 

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“When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.”

 

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“Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”

 

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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

 

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“Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.”

 

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“Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.”

 

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