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"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

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best." - St. Jerome

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

"Action is the foundational key to success." - Pablo Picasso

"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

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

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

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

"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

"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

"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

"Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion." - Deepak Chopra

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." - Mahatma Gandhi

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

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford

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

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on." - Robert Frost

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

"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

"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

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

"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

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

"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

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford

"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

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

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchhill

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family." - Barbara Bush

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

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

"Without forgiveness, there's no future." - Desmond Tutu

"The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

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

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchhill

"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family." - Barbara Bush

"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

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself makes you fearless." - Lao Tzu

"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

"I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came." - Abe Lincoln

"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

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

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

"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

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." - Eleanor Roosevelt from her 1960 Preface to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1961. P.xix.

"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

"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

"Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men." - Pythagoras

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

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

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

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon

"We become what we think about." - Earl Nightingale

"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

"Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." - Vince Lombardi

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

"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

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"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." - Anne 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

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on." - Sheryl Sandberg

"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

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." - Jamie Paolinetti

"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

"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe." - Oprah Winfrey

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money." - Abigail Van Buren

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." - Farrah Gray

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance." - Sir Claus Moser

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

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

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." - Vincent van Gogh

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. " - Ziad K. Abdelnour

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance." - Sir Claus Moser

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop" - Confucius

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." - Oprah Winfrey

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." - Maya Angelou

"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

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

"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be." - Grandma Moses

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world." - Vincent Peale

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible!" - Audrey Hepburn

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it." - Zig Ziglar

"I love coffee. It gives me the illusion that I might be awake" - Lewis Black

"The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our powerlessness, stupefy us." - Theodor W. Adorno
from Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life., 1974, p57.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and everyone and make that Best a part of my life." - Helen Keller

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." - J. K. Rowling

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship." - Benjamin Franklin

"Life is just what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - Allen Saunders and John Lennon

"It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance." - Albert Einstein

"To know what life is worth, you have to risk it once in a while." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and, even his life for the welfare of others." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller from The open Door, 1957, p.17.

"Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times." - Edward Coke

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales

"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." - Marie Curie

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity. ... Don't stop to marvel." - Albert Einstein from Life May 2, 1955, p.64.

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done." - Arnold Palmer

"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." - Charles Darwin

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay from a 1971 meeting at PARC

"There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James Baldwin

"A minute's success pays the failure of years." - Robert Browning

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." - Nikola Tesla

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

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that 'Price is what you pay; value is what you get.' Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." - Warren Buffett

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." - Miguel de Cervantes

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."

"As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard work." - Anna Pavlova

"It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime." - Babe Ruth

"All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others." - Robert Baden-Powell

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." - Simone de Beauvoir

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." - Douglas William Jerrold

"Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little." - Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

"True happiness
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth and choice." - Ben Jonson

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." - George Sand

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power." - René Descartes

"The oldest, shortest words— "yes" and "no"— are those which require the most thought." - Pythagoras

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln

"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. That intellectuality is more vigorous that has attained its strength gradually. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind." - Abdus Salam

"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!" - Lawrence Lovasik

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle." - Kahlil Gibran

"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales

"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that 'Price is what you pay; value is what you get.' Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down." - Warren Buffett

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."