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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. - Charles Buxton
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton
Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying. - Harry Anderson, "Night Court"
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb
Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. - Michelangelo
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. - Amy Grant
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach. - Hillel
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. - Indira Gandhi
Bad habits are like chains that are too light to feel until they are too heavy to carry. - Warren Buffet
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. - Og Mandino
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. - Honore De Balzac
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. - Diana Rankin
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. - Kahlil Gibran
In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed. - Clare Booth Luce
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. - Alexander Graham Bell
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - Galbraith's Law
"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be." - Socrates
"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." - Les Brown
Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear. - Mark Twain
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. - Jim Rohn
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other - Brian Tracy
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior. - Mark Victor Hansen
"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great." - Mark Twain
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." - Abraham Lincoln
"Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you." - William Arthur
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. - Norman Vincent Peale
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular . . . It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. - Uta Hagen
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour. - Jim Rohn
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away. - Charles Schwab
The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. - H. L. Mencken
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. - Og Mandino
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. - Walter Linn
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. - Hubert Humphrey
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. - Zig Ziglar
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games. - Paul "Bear" Bryant
Every man dies. Not every man lives. - Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today. - Les Brown
A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser. - Emmett Fox
No one's head aches when he is comforting another - Indian Proverb
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of- Benjamin Franklin.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. - Yogi Berri
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. - Mortimer B. Zuckerman
A certain amount of opposition is of great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. - John Neal
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. - Lady Blessington
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin
In business, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate. - Chester L. Karrass
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Buxton
I am always willing to learn, however I do not always like to be taught. - Winston Churchill
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have. - Harry S Truman
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift-- which is why they call it the present. - Bill Keane
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill