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 Lambardi

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
-Abraham Lincoln

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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
     - Albert Pike

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence.  To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
-Pearl S. Buck

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Successful: coming about, taking place or turning out as hoped for.
-Webster's

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
     - General George Patton

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca

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The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
- Robert L. Schwartz

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According to aerodynamic laws,  the bumblebee cannot fly.  Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan.  Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
- M. Sainte-Lague

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
  - Helen Keller

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
     - Henry Ford

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Hard work spotlights the character of people:  some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
- Sam Ewig

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The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.
     - Captain J.A. Hatfield

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Success will not lower its standard to us.  We must raise our standard to success.
     - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

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It's never too late to be who you might have been.
     - George Elliot

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Talk does not cook rice.
     - Chinese Proverb

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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
     - Horace

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It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water.
     - Ben Franklin

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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
     - George Halas

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Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain.  Adversity is your best friend on the path to success.
     - unknown

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
     - Sidney Greenberg

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As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
     - Paul Shane Spear

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To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen.
     - unknown

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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
     - Richard Nixon

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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
     - Colin Powell

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
     - Talleyrand

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The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open.
     - Unknown

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I can not do everything, but I can do something.  I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
     - Helen Keller

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Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
     - Anonymous

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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing.  You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
     - Geoffrey Gaberino

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Success is never final. Failure is never fatal.  Courage is what counts.
     - Sir Winston Churchill

Try not to be a man of success, but rather to be a man of value.
     - Albert Einstein

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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
     - Norman R. Augustine

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Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
     - Henry Drummond

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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget  how you make them feel.
     - Carol Buchner

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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
     - Norman R. Augustine

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
     - unknown

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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
     - Henry Ward Beecher

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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
     - Arthur Golden

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
     - Samuel Johnson

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

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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
     - Francis Bacon

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation...The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
     - Jacob Bronowski

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It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
     -  Vince Lombardi

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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
     - Marie Currie

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Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
     - George Eliot

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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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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
     - John C. Maxwell

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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
     - William James

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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.               
     - Henry Ford

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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
     - Italian Proverb

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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
     - Abraham Lincoln

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What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
     - Robert Schuller

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We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow.
     - B.J. Palmer

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
     - Confucius

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What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you.
     - Wayne Dyer

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Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
     - Kenneth Blanchard

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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
       - Malcolm Forbes

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Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
     - Cherie Carter-Scott

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Not every successful man is a good father.  But every good father is a successful man.
- R. Duvall

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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
- Mario Cuomo

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The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.  The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
     - Benjamin Mays

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
     - Napoleon

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If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.  You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.
     - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity.  We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way.  We can never let up.
     - Ralph Bunche

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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
     - Christopher Reeve