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"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Orpah Winfrey

"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." - Jim Rohn

"The will to succed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." - Bobby Knight

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness." - Margaret Thatcher

"Perhaps a man's character is like a tree and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances." - Napoléon Bonaparte

"Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems." (Aug 2007)" - Neil Armstrong

"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially." - Socrates

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." - Helen Keller

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." - Les Brown

"It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving." - Mother Teresa

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive." - Dale Carnegie

"In matters of style, swim wiith the current; in matter of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - Dale Carnegie

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucious

"The art of conversation lies in listening." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate." - Jon Bon Jovi

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it." - Emily Dickinson

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

"True forgiveness is when you can say, thank you for that experience." - Oprah Winfrey

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancements, you should include all things in your gratitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness." - Mother Teresa

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - C.S.Lewis

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become" - Oprah Winfrey

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger." - Harriet Tubman

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Only life lived for others is worth while (sic)." - Albert Einstein

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step, you enhance immensely the value of your first." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [source]

"Decisions are easy when values are clear." - Roy Disney

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it." - Diane Sawyer

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

"You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream." - C.S.Lewis

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go." - Carol Burnett

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income." - Kevin Kruse

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." - Bobby Knight

"By Failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." - Wayne Gretzky

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." - W. Clement Stone

"Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being." - Kevin Kruse

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love." - Oscar Wilde

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker

"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"An unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." - Stephen Covey

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Christopher Columbus

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." - Jim Rohn

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." - Henry Ford

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." - Mark Twain

"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anais Nin

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart." - Ancient Indian Proverb

"Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon

"Fall seven times and stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see." - Confucius

"How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Ann Frank

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Maya Angelou

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions." - Dalai Lama

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." - Aristotle

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin Proverb

"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." - Unknown

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." - Les Brown

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him" - Booker T. Washington

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life." - Steve Jobs

"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong." - Benjamin Franklin

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile." - Roger Staubach

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot