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FEAR
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
     - Edmund Burke

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There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
     - Buck Rodgers

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The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.
     - Colin Powell

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He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
     - Philip Massinger

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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;  Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
     - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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.
     - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
     - Mother Teresa

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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
     - William Makepeace Thackeray

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
     - Harry S Truman

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Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
     -J.C. Penny 

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Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. 
     - Charles Lindbergh

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To bring one's self to a frame of mind and to the proper energy to accomplish things that require plain hard work continuously is the one big battle that everyone has. When this battle is won for all time, then everything is easy. 
     - Thomas A. Buckner

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Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work. 
     - Booker T. Washington

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Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
      - George Eliot

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You must do the very thing you think you cannot do. 
     - Eleanor Roosevelt  

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A competitive world has two possibilities for you: you can lose or, if you want to win, you can change.
     - Lester C. Thurow 

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True success is obeying God. 
     - John Maxwell

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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
     - Frank Scully

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There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself, employ someone or forbid your children to do it. 
     - Monta Crane

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Success is to be measured not so much by the  position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying  to succeed.
     - Booker T. Washington

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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
     - James Russell  Lowell

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I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: try to please everybody.
     - Mr. Herbert Bayard Swope

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The secret of success is consistency of purpose.
     - Benjamin Disraeli

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Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.
     - St. Francis De Sales

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Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.
     - Sir Winston Churchill

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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
     - Abraham Lincoln

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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. 
     - John Wooden 

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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
      - Benjamin Disraeli

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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
     - Michael Korda

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What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
     - HP Liddon

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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
     - Michael Korda

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What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
     - HP Liddon

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I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I  rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones;  and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived.
     - B. D. Gulledge

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The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritations get into the shell... And when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl - And it takes faith and love to do it.
     - Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Far better it is to dare mighty  things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
     - Theodore Roosevelt