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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
To respond is positive, to react is negative.
While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great
You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them.
Smile to the future and it will smile back to you
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
