Inspirational Quotes Collection

The achievement of your goal is

assured the moment you commit

yourself to it!

- Mark R. Douglas

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Nothing stops a man who

desires to achieve. Every obstacle

is simply a course to develop his

achievement muscles. It's a

strengthening of his powers

toward accomplishment.

- Eric Butterworth

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Great things are completed by talented people who believe

they will accomplish them.

- Warren G. Bennis

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The reason most people never reach their goals is because they do not

define them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along

the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

- Denis Waitley

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There is no finer sensation in

life than that which comes with

victory over one's self. Go forward

to a goal of inward

achievement, brushing aside

all of your old internal enemies

as you advance.

- Vash Young

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If you want to reach a goal,

you must see yourself reaching it

in your own mind before you

actually arrive at your goal.

- Zig Ziglar

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You can have anything you N

want if you want it badly enough.

You can be anything you want to

be, do anything you set out to

accomplish if you hold to that

desire with singleness of purpose.

- William Adams

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Optimism is essential to achievement

and it is also the foundation

of courage and true progress.

- Lloyd Alexander

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For a man to achieve all that is

demanded of him, he must regard

himself as greater than he is.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who labors diligently

need never despair, for all

things are accomplished by

diligence and labor.

- Menander

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Lord, grant that I might always

desire more than I can accomplish.

- Michelangelo

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The game of life is to come up a

winner, to be a success, and to

achieve what you set out to do.

- Richard Nixon

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If you want to be successful,

find someone who has achieved

the results you want, and copy

what they do, and you'll achieve

similar results.

- Anthony Robbins

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To achieve the impossible, it is

precisely the unthinkable that

must be thought.

- Tom Robbins

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Every achiever that I have ever

met says, "My life turned around

when I began to believe in me."

- Robert H. Schuller

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There are two things to aim at

in life: first, to get what you

want and second is to enjoy it.

Only the wisest of mankind

achieve the second.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

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Success is achievean

maintained by those who try, and

keep trying, for there is nothing to

lose by trying and a great deal to

gain if successful. By all means

TRY! Do it NOW!!!

- W. Clement Stone

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The roots of true achievement lie

in the will to become the best that

you can become.

- Harold Taylor

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Use failures as stepping-stones to

deeper understanding and greater

achievement.

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Outstanding leaders go out of

their way to boost the self-esteem

of their personnel. If people

believe in themselves, it is amazing

at what they can accomplish.

 - Sam Walton

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If you can imagine it, you can

achieve it; if you can dream it,

you can become it.

- William Arthur Ward

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One can choose to go back toward

safety or forward toward growth.

Growth must be chosen again and

again; fear must be overcome

again and again.

- Abraham Maslow

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The real risk is doing nothing.

- Denis Waitley

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Your current situation is

no indication of your

ultimate potential!

- Anthony Robbins

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What you can do, or dream you

can, begin it. Boldness has genius,

power, and magic in it.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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What a man thinks of himself

is what determines, or rather

indicates his fate.

- Henry David Thoreau

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If we don't change, we don't

grow. If we don't grow, we aren't

really living.

- Gail Sheehy

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No life ever grows great until

it is focused, dedicated,

and disciplined.

- Henry Emerson Forsdick

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Dream pass into the reality of

action. From this action comes the

dream again, and this produces

the highest form of living.

- Anais Nin

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In adversity keep motivated,

because often the best results come

from difficulties.

It's always too soon to quit.

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 First thing every morning before

you arise out of bed, say out loud

three times "I believe I can."

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The belief that becomes truth for

me... is that which allows me the

best use of my strength, the best

means of putting my virtues into

action.

- Andre Gide

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Never use the word "impossible".

Throw it into the verbal waste

bucket.

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When you expect the best, you

release a force in your mind that

tends to bring out the best in you.

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Our real problem is not our

strength today; it is rather the

vital necessity of action today to

ensure our strength tomorrow.

- Calvin Coolidge

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If you think you can win, you can

win. Faith is necessary for victory.

- William Hazlitt

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Time is our most valuable asset,

yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and

spend it rather than invest it.

- Jim Rohn

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Set too many goals and keep

adding more goals. Goals have a

tendency to be realized all at once.

- Mark Victor Hansen

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Success is directly proportional

to effort.

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Nothing is so contagious as

enthusiasm; it is the genius

of sincerity, and the truth

accomplishes

nothing without it.

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Opportunities are multiplied

as they are seized.

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Plan to succeed or you have

panned to fail.

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There are risks and costs to a

plan of action, but they are far

less than the long-term risks

and costs of comfortable

inactions.

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Dreams come true for those

who work while they dream.

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There are those who see an

opportunity, and those who

SEIZE an opportunity.

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The future belongs to those

who see possibilities before

they become obvious.

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When facing a difficult task,

act as if you cannot fail.

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Great people are created by great

mistakes that are learned from,

not from great successes that are

gloated upon.

- Elmer Clark

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Motivation is what gets you

started; habit is what keeps

you going.

- Jim Ryun

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Those who want to succeed will

find a way; those who don't will

find an excuse.

- Leo Aguila

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It's amazing what ordinary people

can do if they set out with

preconceived notions.

- Charles F. Kettering

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If you mess up and learn nothing,

it's a mistake. If you mess up and

learn something, it's an

experience.

- Mark McFadden

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No matter how small,

acknowledge the achievement.

- Greg Henry Quinn

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People who are afraid to fail can

never experience the joys of

success.

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Procrastination is the seed of

self-destruction.

- Matthew Burton

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Except and expect positive things,

and that is what you will receive.

- Lori Hard

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Thoughts are like a flame: small

thoughts produce small heat, and

big thoughts make an inferno.

- Jim Lu

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Success is not all about money.

It's about having the resources

and the ability to live the life that

you have personally dreamed of.

- Pete Zafra

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If you don't think everyday is a

great day, try going without one.

- Jim Evans

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The body achieves what the

mind believes.

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To learn, you have to listen.

To improve, you have to try.

- Thomas Jefferson

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Even if something has just a one

percent chance of success, success

boils down to how fast you exhaust

your ninety-nine failures.

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One of the most important principles

of success is developing the

habit of going the extra mile.

- Napoleon Hill

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The meeting of preparation

with opportunity generates the

offspring we call luck.

- Anthony Robbins

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The philosophy of the rich versus

the poor is this: The rich invest

their money and spends what is

left; the poor spends their money

and invest what is left.

- Jim Rohn

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Perfection is our goal;

excellence will be tolerated.

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Vision plus desire equals reality.

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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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We must have courage to bet on

our ideas, take the calculated risk,

and take action!

- Martin Brown

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Impossibility is an opinion, not

a fact.

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A winner never stops trying.

- Tom Landry

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Life is a state of mind; imagine

the one that you want, and

then create it.

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The secret to success is to do

common things uncommonly well.

- John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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The surest way not to fail is to be

determined to succeed.

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Winners must have two things:

definite goals, and a burning

desire to achieve them.

- Brad Burden

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I don't know what my future

holds, but I do know who holds

my future.

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The three P's of success: Passion,

Persistence, and Patience.

- Doug Bronson

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Better is not something you wish,

it is something you become.

- Jim Rohn

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He has achieved success if he

has lived well, laughed often,

and loved much.

- Bessie Stanley

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True success is overcoming the

fear of being unsuccessful.

- Paul Sweeney

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If you are successful, you may win

false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

- Mother Theresa

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What is success? I think it is

a mixture of having a flair for the

thing that you are doing; knowing

that it is not enough, that you must

have hard work and a certain

sense of purpose.

- Margaret Thatcher

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Some of the best lessons we ever

learn are learned from past

mistakes. The error of the past is

the wisdom and success of

the future.

- Dr. Dale Turner

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No one lives long enough to

learn everything they need to

learn starting from scratch. To

be successful, we absolutely,

positively have to find people

who have already paid the price

to learn the things that we need

to learn to achieve our

goals.

- Brian Tracy

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If you can't find the key to

success, pick the lock.

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Yesterday's failures are today's

seeds that must be diligently

planted to be able to abundantly

harvest tomorrow's success.

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Some people succeed because they

are destined to, but most people

succeed because they are

determined to.

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Forget about the consequences of

failure. Failure is only a temporary

change in direction to set you

straight for your next success.

- Denis Waitley

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You don't pay the price for

success. You enjoy the price

for success.

- Zig Ziglar

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It takes a person who is

wide-awake to make his

dream come true.

- Roger Ward Babson

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You gotta have a dream! If you

don't have a dream how are you

gonna make a dream come true?

- Oscar Hammerstein, II

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What distinguishes us from one

another is our dreams, and what

we do to make them come about.

- Joseph Epstein

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Within our dreams and

aspirations we find our

opportunities.

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You must see your goals clearly

and specifically before you can

set out for them. Hold them in

your mind until they become

second nature.

- Les Brown

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Set your goals high and don't

stop until you get there.

- Bo Jackson

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Work like you don't need the

money, love like you've never

been hurt, and dance like

nobody is watching.

- Mark Twain

Great customer service is still

the best way to beat the pants

off the competition.

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Our destiny is shaped by our

thoughts and our actions. We

cannot direct the wind, but we

can adjust the sails.

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Success is the person who year

after year, reaches the highest

limits in his field.

- Sparky Anderson

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Out of respect of things

was never destined to do, I have

learned that my strengths are a

result of my weaknesses, my success

is due to my failures, and my

style is directly related to my

limitations.

- Billy Joel

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The most absurd and reckless

aspirations have sometimes led to

extraordinary success.

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You must think of failure and

defeat as the spring boards to new

achievements, and to the next level

of accomplishment.

- Les Brown

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Even a mistake may turn out to be

the one thing necessary to a

worthwhile achievement.

- Henry Ford

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Cherish your visions and your

dreams, as they are the children of

your soul, and the blueprints of

your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

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Hope is not a dream, but a way of

making dreams become reality.

- Cardinal Sueneus

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So many or our dreams at first

seem impossible, then they seem

improbable, and then, when we

summon the will, they soon

become inevitable.

- Christopher Reeve

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America is the greatest country in

the world. You can be anything you

want to be within the laws of God

and man. You can make your dreams

come true if you work hard, stay focused

on your goal, and give back to

the community that supports you.

- R. David Thomas

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Dreams do come true if we only

wish hard enough. You can have

anything in life if you will sacrifice

everything else for it.

- Sir James M. Barrie

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Action, to be effective, must be

directed to clearly conceived ends.

- J. Nehru

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The moment of enlightenment is

when a person's dreams of

possibilities become images of

probabilities.

- Vic Bruden

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Don't let failure get you down.

Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times.

- Lou Holtz

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When defeat comes, accept it as a

signal that your plans are not

sound. Rebuild those plans and

set sail once more toward your

coveted goal.

- Napoleon Hill

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Ideas are the beginning of all

achievement.

- Bruce Lee

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You can do what you what

to do, accomplish what you

want to accomplish, attain

any reasonable objective you

may have in mind, not all of a

sudden, perhaps not in one swift

and sweeping act of achievement,

but you can do it gradually, day

by day, and play by play, if you

want to do it, if you work to

do it, over a sufficiently

long period of time.

- William E. Holler

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Success has always been easy to

measure. It's the distance between

one's origins and one's final

achievement.

- Michael Korda

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May your future be worthy of

your dreams.

- Barbara Bush

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I have had dreams and I have had nightmares.

I overcame my nightmares because of

my dreams.

- Jonas Salk

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I have learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, but we

must not let our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from

our past failures, disappointments, and painful experiences.

Reset our goals and priorities and move forward. Start today by

untying the knots that are limiting you.

- Ty Howard

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Leaders are not born; they are

made. And they are made just like

anything else - through hard work.

and that is the price we'll have to

pay to achieve any goal.

- Vince Lomnbardi

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Never give up. If you want to

be something, be conceited about it.

Give yourself a chance. Never say

that you are not good for that will

never get you anywhere. Set high

goals. That is what life is all about.

- Mike McLaren

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Success is the progressive

realization of predetermined,

worthwhile, personal goals.

- Paul Meyer

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Let me tell you the secret that has

led me to my goal: my strength lies

solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur

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Discipline is the bridge between

goals and accomplishment.

- Jim Rohn

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Happiness is not in the mere

possession of money. It lies in

the joy of achievement and in

the thrill of creative effort.

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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The goal of every married couple

indeed and every Christian home

should be to make Christ the head,

the Counselor, and the Guide.

- Paul Sadler

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Think little goals and expect little

achievements. Think big goals and

win big success.

- David Joseph Schwartz

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Dream no small dreams, for

they have no power to stir

the souls of men.

- Victor Hugo

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When we are motivated by goals

that have deep meaning, by

dreams that need completion, by

pure love that needs expressing, it

is then when we truly live.

- Greg Anderson

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Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought

into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often comes

apparent and temporary failure and discouragement just before the

big achievement.

- Florence Scovel Shinn

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All successful men and

women are big dreamers. They

imagine what their future could

be, ideal in every respect, and then

they work everyday toward their

distant vision, goal, and purpose!

- Brian Tracy

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The man who gives up

accomplishes nothing and is only a

hindrance. The man who does not

give up can move mountains.

- Ernest Hello

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Some of my fondest memories

in sports were a result of failure,

injuries, setbacks, and mistakes. I

learned far more about myself and

gained more character in those

difficult times than I ever did when

success came early.

- Peter Vidmar

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In the marathon of life, success
calls for dedication to the goal,
perseverance, compassion for my
fellow man, and faith in God.
- John A. Kelley

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

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Courage is daring to take the
first step, or a different path.
It is the decision to place your
dreams above your fears.

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The currents that determine
our dreams and shape our lives,
flow from the attitudes that
we nurture everyday.

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Happiness, wealth, and success
are the byproducts of goal setting;
they cannot be the goals
themselves.
- Denis Waitley

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Triumph is just a little
"umph" added to try.

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This is the beginning of a new
day. You have been given this
day to use as you will. You can
waste it, or use it for good.
What you do today is important
because you are exchanging a
day of your life for it.

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The happiness of your life
depends on the quality
of your thoughts.

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Its kind of fun to do the
impossible.
- Walt Disney

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Put your goals in writing.
If you can't put it on a sheet of
paper, you probably can't do
what it takes to achieve
the goal.

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Failure is the path of least
PERSISTENCE.

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Hard work is the yeast that
raises the dough.

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Goals are like the stars:
they are always there.
Adversity is like the clouds:
they are temporary and will
move on. Keep your eyes
on the stars.

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If you want your dreams
to come true,
don't oversleep.

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God's retirement plan is
out of this world.

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Our lives are not determined by what
happens to us, but how we react to what
happens; not what life brings to us, but
the attitude that we bring to life. A positive
attitude causes a chain reaction of
positive thoughts, events and outcomes.
It is a catalyst... a spark that creates
extraordinary results.

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Past failures are guideposts
for future success.

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We cannot change yesterday, we
can only make the most of today
and look with hope toward
tomorrow.

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A positive attitude is a powerful
force.. .it can't be stopped.

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The one who lacks the courage to
start has already finished.

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We are what and where we are
because we have first imagined it.
- Donald Curtis

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The highest courage is to dare
to be yourself in the face of
adversity. Choosing right over
wrong, ethics over convenience,
and truth over popularity.
These are the choices that
measure your life. Travel the
path of integrity without
looking back, for there will
never be a wrong time to do
the right thing.

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A quitter never wins and
a winner never quits.

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The reward for work well done is
the opportunity to do more.

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There are two ways to live your 

life. One is believing that nothing
is a miracle, and the other is
believing that everything is a
miracle.

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If you aren't fired up with
enthusiasm, you'll be fired with
enthusiasm.

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Most of us are just as happy as we
make up our minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

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The darkest hour of any man's life
is when he sits down to plan how
to get money without earning it.
- Horace Greeley

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It takes a single idea and a single
action to move the world.

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You can do it if you put
your mind to it.

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A leader's job is to look into the
future and see the organization not
as it is, but as it can become.

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Our life is what our thoughts make
it. Do the best that
you can, where you are,
with what you have.
- Marcus Aurelius

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Happiness doesn't depend on what
we have, but it does depend on
how we feel toward what we have.
We can be happy with little and
miserable with much.
- William Dempster Hoard

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Attitude is a little thing

that makes a big difference

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 A bump in the road is either
an obstacle to be fought, or an
opportunity to be enjoyed...
it's all up to you.

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It is a fabulous country, the only

fabulous country; it is the only

place where miracles not only

happen, but they happen all of the

time.

- Thomas Wolf

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"I can't do it" never accomplished

anything; "I will try" has

performed miracles.

- George P. Burnham

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The great accomplishments of

man have resulted from the

transmission of ideas, into

enthusiasm, into actions.

- Thomas J. Watson

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Throughout the centuries there

have been men who took the first

steps down new roads armed with

nothing but their own vision.

- Ayn Rand

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Start by doing what is necessary,

then what is possible, and

suddenly you are doing the

impossible.

- Francis of Assisi

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Don't limit yourself. Many people

limit themselves to what they think

they can do. You can go as far as

your mind lets you. What you

believe, you can achieve!

- Mary Kay Ash

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The only thing ever achieved in

life without effort is failure.

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There are two ways of meeting

difficulties: you can alter the

difficulties, or you can alter

yourself to meet the difficulties.

- Phyllis Bottoms

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in

your abilities! Without a humble,

but reasonable confidence in your

own powers, you cannot be

successful or happy.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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Remove failure as an option.

- Joan Lunden

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Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even

though checkered with failure, than to make rank with those poor

spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in

the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt

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Men succeed when they realize

that their failures are the

preparation for their victories.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There isn't a person anywhere

that isn't capable of doing more

than he thinks he can.

- Henry Ford

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Never stand begging for

something that you have the

power to earn.

- Miguel de Cervantes

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To succeed it is necessary to

accept the world as it is and

rise above it.

- Michael Korda

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The individual activity of one

man with a backbone will do

more than a thousand men

with a mere wish bone.

- William Boetcke

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Failure is just an opportunity

to begin again.. .this time more

wisely.

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What would you attempt if you

knew you could not fail?

- Anthony Robbins

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If you are not going to think big,

don't bother thinking at all.

- Thomas J. Vilord

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There is real magic in enthusiasm.

It spells the difference between

mediocrity and accomplishment.

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In the end, the size of a man's

accomplishments can best be

measured by the size of their

heart.

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A mediocre idea that generates

enthusiasm will go farther than a

great idea that inspires no one.

- Mary Kay Ashe

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A man can succeed at almost

anything for which he has

unlimited enthusiasm.

- Charles Schwab

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A man's dreams are an index to

his greatness.

- Zadok Rabinowitz

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Nothing is hopeless; we must hope

for everything.

- Madeline L'Engle

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When you come to the edge of

all that you know, you must

believe on one of two things:

there will be earth upon which to

stand, or you will be given

wings to fly.

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What we must decide is how we

are valuable, rather than how

valuable we are.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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You can often measure a man

by the size of his dreams

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The uncommon man is merely

the common man thinking and

dreaming of success in larger

terms and in more

fruitful areas.

- Melvin Powers

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The poorest man in the world

is not a man without a cent

to his name, but it's the man

who does not have a dream.

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The recipe of success is to study

while others are sleeping, work

while others are loafing, prepare

while others are playing, and

dream while others are wishing.

- William A. Ward

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Success consists of getting up just

one more time than you fall.

- Oliver Goldsmith

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To have more than you've got,

become more than you are.

- Jim Rohn

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I sstIill say that I am a little

different because success to me is

not having the most money, or

having the biggest car or the

biggest house. Success is

just being happy.

- Herschel Walker

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The future is purchased by

what you do in the

present.

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Success is doing what you want

to do, when you want,

with whomever you want,

as much as you want.

- Anthony Robbins

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The only way to excellence is

to consistently improve yourself

every single day.

- Thomas J. Vilord

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Enthusiasm is the vital element

toward the individual success of

every man or woman.

- Conrad Hilton

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I want to seize fate by the throat.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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The very essence of leadership

is having vision.

- Father Theodore Hesburg

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The successful man will

profit from his mistakes and

try again in a different way.

- Dale Carnegie

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Success comes to those who

make it happen, not those who

let it happen.

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