The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
     -Vince Lambardi

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
     -Abraham Lincoln

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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
     -Albert Pike

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence.  To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
     -Pearl S. Buck

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Successful: coming about, taking place or turning out as hoped for.
     -Webster's

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
     -Winston Churchill

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Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
     - General George Patton

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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
     - Seneca

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The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
     - Robert L. Schwartz

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According to aerodynamic laws,  the bumblebee cannot fly.  Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan.  Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.
     - M. Sainte-Lague

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
     - Helen Keller

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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
     - Henry Ford

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Hard work spotlights the character of people:  some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
     - Sam Ewig

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The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men.
     - Captain J.A. Hatfield

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Success will not lower its standard to us.  We must raise our standard to success.
     - Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

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It's never too late to be who you might have been.
     - George Elliot

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Talk does not cook rice.
     - Chinese Proverb

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Rule your mind or it will rule you.
     - Horace

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It is when the well is dry that we know the price of water.
     - Ben Franklin

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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
     - George Halas

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Attach yourself to your passion, but not to your pain.  Adversity is your best friend on the path to success.
     - unknown

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
     - Sidney Greenberg

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As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
     - Paul Shane Spear

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To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen.
     - unknown

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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
     - Richard Nixon

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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
     - Colin Powell

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I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
     - Talleyrand

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The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open.
     - Unknown

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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I can not do everything, but I can do something.  I must not fail to do the something that I can do.
     - Helen Keller