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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