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| It always seems impossible until it’s done. | Nelson Mandela |
| 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 |
| If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. | H. G. Wells |
| With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. | Walter Elliot |
| A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. | George S. Patton |
| When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. | Alfred A. Montapert |
| Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. | Charles R. Swindoll |
| If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. | John D. Rockefeller |
| Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best. | St. Jerome |
| When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. | Elon Musk |
| I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything… at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. | Dan Millman |
| Quality is not an act, it is a habit. | Aristotle |
| Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. | Sam Levenson |
| If you can dream it, you can do it. | Walt Disney |
| Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. | Arthur Ashe |
| Every exit is an entry somewhere else. | Tom Stoppard |
| I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be. | Ken Venturi |
| The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare. | Bobby Knight |
| Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. | Og Mandino |
| Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. | Victor Kiam |
| Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. | Samuel Beckett |
| Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. | Bo Jackson |
| There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. | Aldous Huxley |
| In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can. | Nikos Kazantzakis |
| Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. | Simone de Beauvoir |
| The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. | Mark Caine |
| Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. | Robert H. Schuller |
| No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. | William Blake |
| Either I will find a way, or I will make one. | Philip Sidney |
| Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. | W. Clement Stone |
| Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. | Dalai Lama |
| Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. | Carol Burnett |
| You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. | George Lucas |
| Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. | H. L. Hunt |
| I am not afraid… I was born to do this. | Joan of Arc |
| You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. | Babe Ruth |
| You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. | Ted Turner |
| I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. | Dean Koontz |
| Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. | Kyle Chandler |
| Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds. | Gordon B. Hinckley |
| I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse. | Florence Nightingale |
| I can, therefore I am. | Simone Weil |
| Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. | Pauline Kael |
| You will never win if you never begin. | Helen Rowland |
| Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. | Benjamin Jowett |
| Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. | Bradley Whitford |
| Leap, and the net will appear. | John Burroughs |
| Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. | Julie Andrews |
| I am not a has-been. I am a will be. | Lauren Bacall |
| The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. | Muhammad Iqbal |
| The secret of getting ahead is getting started. | Mark Twain |
| If you’re going through hell, keep going. | Winston Churchill |
| Well done is better than well said. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do. | Pope John XXIII |
| Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice. | Wayne Dyer |
| Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. | Stephen Hawking |
| By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. | Benjamin Franklin |
| It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. | Confucius |
| Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. | William James |
| Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose? | Eliza Dushku |
| You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. | Woodrow Wilson |
| One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. | Michael Korda |
| 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 |
| Don’t think, just do. | Horace |
| Never complain and never explain. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| The people who influence you are the people who believe in you. | Henry Drummond |
| If you think you can do it, you can. | John Burroughs |
| Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. | Lao Tzu |
| Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. | Tony Robbins |
| The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. | Confucius |
| No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one. | Jessica Savitch |
| You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. | Les Brown |
| Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle. | Sasha Cohen |
| Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. | Helen Keller |
| Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. | Norman Ralph Augustine |
| I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. | Robert H. Schuller |
| Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. | George S. Patton |
| Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. | George Herbert |
| The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. | Philip Emeagwali |
| There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move! | Edgar Cayce |
| The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. | Walt Disney |
| To begin, begin. | William Wordsworth |
| 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 |
| Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. | Og Mandino |
| Step by step and the thing is done. | Charles Atlas |
| Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. | Thomas A. Edison |
| Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. | Allen Ginsberg |
| There is always room at the top. | Daniel Webster |
| They can conquer who believe they can. | Virgil |
| Either you run the day or the day runs you. | Jim Rohn |
| You never know what motivates you. | Cicely Tyson |
| Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. | Wayne Dyer |
| Always desire to learn something useful. | Sophocles |
| He conquers who endures. | Persius |
| When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder. | Natalie Gulbis |
| A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. | Ayn Rand |
| Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way. | Eileen Caddy |
| Things do not happen. Things are made to happen. | John F. Kennedy |
| You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. | Flip Wilson |
| Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. | Peter Marshall |
| The most effective way to do it, is to do it. | Amelia Earhart |
| What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. | Zig Ziglar |
| We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. | Maya Angelou |
| Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. | William Butler Yeats |
| Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. | Leo Buscaglia |
| There’s a way to do it better – find it. | Thomas A. Edison |
| If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. | Dale Carnegie |
| You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. | Rabindranath Tagore |
| We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. | Orison Swett Marden |
| It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are. | Malala Yousafzai |
| The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. | Epictetus |
| Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. | George Whitefield |
| If you don’t ask, you don’t get. | Stevie Wonder |
| There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. | Richard Rorty |
| If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. | Emile Zola |
| Never, never, never give up. | Winston Churchill |
| You create your opportunities by asking for them. | Shakti Gawain |
| It’s always too early to quit. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. | Henry Ford |
| One finds limits by pushing them. | Herbert A. Simon |
| Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. | Og Mandino |
| Deserve your dream. | Octavio Paz |
| The more we do, the more we can do. | William Hazlitt |
| Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. | Saint Teresa of Avila |
| Don’t fight the problem, decide it. | George C. Marshall |
| Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. | John Dewey |
| Wherever you are – be all there. | Jim Elliot |
| I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world. | Judy Collins |
| What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. | Ralph Marston |
| We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. | Thomas Paine |
| I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. | Muhammad Ali |
| After a storm comes a calm. | Matthew Henry |
| If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. | Jim Rohn |
| In motivating people, you’ve got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example – and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved. | Rupert Murdoch |
| Never give in and never give up. | Hubert H. Humphrey |
| A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did. | John Burroughs |
| The more things you do, the more you can do. | Lucille Ball |
| Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. | Albert Schweitzer |
| Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. | Christopher Morley |
| We aim above the mark to hit the mark. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition. | Elbert Hubbard |