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GET INSPIRED! 525 nuggets of inspiration, wisdom and truth.

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Dedication This book is undoubtedly dedicated to YOU. Special appreciation goes to all my readers. You make the vision possible.

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Table Contents

Introduction ....................................................... 7 Dreams ............................................................... 8 Ability ............................................................... 19 Ambition .......................................................... 26 Passion ............................................................. 30 Planning ........................................................... 33 Action ............................................................... 41 Perseverance.................................................... 50 Determination .................................................. 56 Hope ................................................................. 60 Vision................................................................ 66 Leadership ........................................................ 75 Goals ................................................................ 85 Success ............................................................. 95 Love ................................................................ 104 ARISTOTLE ...................................................... 115 SOCRATES....................................................... 119 PLATO ............................................................. 123 5|GET INSPIRED

GHANDHI........................................................ 127 EINSTEIN......................................................... 131 CONFUCIOUS.................................................. 135 CICERO ........................................................... 141 Winston Churchill ........................................... 145

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Introduction Inspiration is a catalyst. It facilitates the transformation of thoughts, dreams and ideas into reality and makes it easier to develop the ability to sustain productivity. People who inspire others are able to communicate and capture, direct and sustain the attention of anyone they come into contact with. Words of advice, snippets of wisdom, timeless principles and wise sayings from people of repute, movers and shakers of history, living or dead serves as the perfect and timely doses of inspiration for extraordinary success. These thought provoking quotes and comments also provide color, variety and depth for any speech, article, book, sermon or any other form of literary work. This e book provides over 500 quotes on very relevant subjects like Dreams, Ability, Love, Success, Passion, Determination etc. from world famous industrialists, politicians, priests, actors, authors and thought leaders and it is intended to serve as a pocket guide, reference document or quotation treasury. Read them, get inspired and inspire others.

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Dreams Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh'')

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success --the earliest spark in the dreaming youth -is this; dream a great dream. John A. Appleman

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. Richard Bach (1936-, American Author)

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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore (1882-1942, American Actor)

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. Vic Braden (American Tennis Coach)

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams. Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality)

You have the courage and power to live your dreams. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

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There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American Writer)

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. Tom Clancy (1947-, American Author, ''The Hunt for Red October'')

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. Jiminy Cricket (Cartoon Character)

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. James Dean (1931-1955, American Actor)

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Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams. Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality)

You have the courage and power to live your dreams. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. William S. Burroughs (1914-1997, American Writer)

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Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. Tom Clancy (1947-, American Author, ''The Hunt for Red October'')

When your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme. Jiminy Cricket (Cartoon Character)

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. James Dean (1931-1955, American Actor)

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. Belva Davis

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To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. Bernard Edmonds (American Writer)

It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot (1819-1880, British Novelist)

When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman)

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -your own. Mark Victor Hansen (American Motivational Speaker, Author)

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'')

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes (1902-1967, American Poet, Short-story Writer, Playwright)

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We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams. Jesse Jackson (1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader)

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it. Earvin ''Magic'' Johnson (1959-, American Basketball Player)

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not. Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968, American Attorney General, Senator)

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King Jr. 15 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: --we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

The more you can dream, the more you can do. Michael Korda (1919-, American publisher)

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality. Thomas E. Lawrence (1888-1935, British Soldier, Arabist, Writer) 16 | G E T I N S P I R E D

It may be those who do most, dream most. Stephen B. Leacock 91869-1944, Canadian Humorist, Economist)

You will achieve grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day --not long and difficult projects, but chores that will take you, step by step, toward your rainbow. Write them down, if you must, but limit your list so that you won't have to drag today's undone matters into tomorrow. Remember that you cannot build your pyramid in twenty-four hours. Be patient. Never allow your day to become so cluttered that you neglect your most important goal --to do the best you can, enjoy this day, and rest satisfied with what you have accomplished. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker)

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! Alfred A. Montapert (American Author)

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Everything starts as somebody's day dream. Larry Niven

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows --and has always known --that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian)

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Ability Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman)

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains Ken Carey

Ability is of little account without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French General, Emperor)

The king is the man who can. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author)

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.'' Oswald Chambers (1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author)

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

Ability without honor is useless. Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer)

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary. Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Founder of GE)

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)

Others have done it before me. I can, too. Corporal John Faunce (American soldier)

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman)

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right! Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company)

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. Henry Ford (1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company)

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 22 | G E T I N S P I R E D

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. Robert Half (American Businessman, Founder of Robert Half & Associates)

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. John Andrew Holmes

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French Classical Writer)

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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680, French Classical Writer)

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin (1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist)

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist) God does not ask about our ability, but our availability. Source Unknown

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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. Stevie Wonder (1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer)

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. Zig Ziglar (American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker)

Ability is a poor man's wealth. M. Wren

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Ambition Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative suggestions --you can't do this; you can't do that; be careful; look for security, and so on. Year by year, he experiences the ''realities'' of life, and his ambitions fade away. Figuratively speaking, most children die by the time they reach their adulthood. Shall Sinha

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. Susan Sontag (1933-, American Essayist)

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. Publilius Syrus (1st Century BC, Roman Writer)

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to

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surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous] A. W. Tozer (?-1963, American Preacher)

Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain (1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon)

Hasty climbers have sudden falls. Italian Proverb (Sayings of Italian Origin)

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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. William Penn (1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania)

If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now. Mildred Mcafee

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. The man who knows how will always have a job. The man who also knows why will always be his boss. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man, who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. Ralph Waldo Emerson 28 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. C. Archie Danielson

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821, French General, Emperor)

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Passion Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic)

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. Honore De Balzac (1799-1850, French Novelist)

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. Christian Nevell Bovee (1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer)

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George Burns (1896-1996, American Comedy Actor)

It is the passions that do and undo everything. Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle (1657-1757, Scientist, Man of Letter)

Every man without passion has within him no principle of action, nor motive of act. Claude A. Helvétius (1715-1771, French Philosopher)

Passion is the genesis of genius. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant)

Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her.

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Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost. Saying

Chase your passion, not your pension. Denis Waitley (1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)

Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, ''Why am I doing this?'' It comes down to passion. Lyn St. James (American Race Car Driver)

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Planning The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor. Christian Nevell Bovee (1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer)

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous. Mark Caine

To be prepared is half the victory. Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet)

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister)

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister)

Before beginning, plan carefully. Marcus T. Cicero (106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician)

A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher)

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past. Jo Coudert (American Author)

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister)

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. Richard C. Cushing (1895-1970, American Roman Catholic Cardinal)

Always plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. Richard C. Cushing (1895-1970, American Roman Catholic Cardinal)

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. John Wooden (1910-, American Basketball Coach)

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Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. William A. Ward (1921-,)

The person who doesn't know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn't know where his last dollar went. Source Unknown

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. Source Unknown For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned. Source Unknown

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Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once. Source Unknown

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny. W. Clement Stone (1902-, American Businessman, Author)

Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher)

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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 (American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher)

With a definite, step-by-step plan --ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track… Scott Reed

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author)

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Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. George L. Morrisey

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913, American Banker, Financier, Art Collector)

Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, dayby-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Paul J. Meyer (American Businessman, Author, Motivator)

Strategic planning will help you fully uncover your available options, set priorities for them, and define the methods to achieve them. Robert J. Mckain 39 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. Alan Lakein (American Time Management Expert, Author, Trainer)

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. Chuck Knox (American Football Coach)

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Action You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. Leo Aikman

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place. Louis A. Allen

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed. John Anster

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

Do every act of your life as if it were your last. Marcus Aurelius (121-80 AD, Roman Emperor, Philosopher)

Begin --to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished. Decimus Magnus Ausonius (310-10395, Latin Poet, Man of Letters)

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action. Al Batt

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. Sally Berger

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. Henri L. Bergson (1859-1941, French Philosopher)

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

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You can't aim a duck to death. Gael Boardman (American Politician)

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British Novelist)

Take action in order to move toward your goals. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett (1930-, American Investment Entrepreneur)

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. Nolan Bushnell (American Businessman, Founder of Atari Computer)

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. Eileen Caddy (American Spiritual Writer) 45 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved. Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'')

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. Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'')

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. John H. Holcomb

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet)

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. William Dean Howells (1837-1920, American Novelist, Critic)

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca (1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler)

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. Lee Iacocca (1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler)

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist)

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough. Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant)

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith (1923-, American Journalist, Gossip Columnist)

You have to ''be'' before you can ''do,'' and do before you can ''have.'' Zig Ziglar (American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker)

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet. Source Unknown

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Perseverance Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. Julie Andrews (1935-, British Singer, Actress)

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. [James 1:4] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author)

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. Walter Elliott

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich (American Statesman)

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist) 51 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars. Samuel G. Goodrich (1793-1860, American Publisher, Writer)

Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. Sidney J. Harris (1917-, American Journalist)

Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance. Lee Iacocca (1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler) 52 | G E T I N S P I R E D

You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance. Lee Iacocca (1924-, American Businessman, Former CEO of Chrysler)

Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British Author)

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American Poet)

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little. Plutarch 53 | G E T I N S P I R E D

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher)

Don't worry about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: ''Don't grumble. Plug on!'' Sir Thomas Treves

Perseverance and audacity generally win! Madame Dorothé Deluzy (1747-1830, French Actress)

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The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit. Mark Twain (1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again. Source Unknown

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister)

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Determination The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy --invincible determination --a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men. B. C. Forbes (1880-1954, American Publisher)

Determination that just won't quit --that's what it takes. A. J. Foyt (American Race Car Driver)

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author)

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British Author)

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination. Tommy Lasorda (1927-, American Baseball Manager)

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert) 57 | G E T I N S P I R E D

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi (1913-1970, American Football Coach)

Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack. Paul J. Meyer (American Businessman, Author, Motivator)

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. Jesse Owens (1913-1980, American Olympic Track Athlete)

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Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. Source Unknown

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you. Denis Waitley (1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker)

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Hope My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. Maya Angelou (1928-, African-American poet, Writer, Performer)

Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

Hope is the parent of faith. Cyrus A. Bartol

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln. Bruce Barton (1886-1967, American Author, Advertising Executive)

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Hope is the best part of our riches. Christian Nevell Bovee (1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer)

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning (1812-1889, British Poet)

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. George Washington Carver (1864-1943, American Scientist)

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British Author)

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul --and sings the tunes without the words --and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886, American Poet)

To live without Hope is to cease to live. Fyodor Dostoevski (1821-1881, Russian Novelist)

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. Erik H. Erikson (Austrian Developmental Psychologist)

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author)

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In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist)

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. William Hazlitt (1778-1830, British Essayist)

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Jesse Jackson (1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader)

Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope. John Johnson (American Businessman, Founder of Johnson Publishing)

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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British Author)

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr (1923-, American Author, Playwright)

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964)

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine)

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He who does not hope to win has already lost. Jose Joaquin Olmedo

He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. Arabian Proverb (Sayings of Arabian Origin)

Were it not for hope the heart would break. Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish Origin)

Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life. Source Unknown

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Vision Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Joel A. Barker (American Businessman, Consultant, Author)

Where there is no vision, the people perish. [Proverbs 29:18] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. James Broughton

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

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Vision --It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. Robert Collier (American Writer, Publisher)

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development. Joseph M. Dodge

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams --even if it takes a lifetime. Vijali Hamilton 67 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill (1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich'')

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung (1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist)

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision. Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist)

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. Orison Swett Marden 68 | G E T I N S P I R E D

We go where our vision is. Joseph Edward Murphy (1919-, American Surgeon)

Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese Origin)

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian Writer, Philosopher)

Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant) 69 | G E T I N S P I R E D

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. Charles M. Schwab (1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman)

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist)

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority. Charles Swindoll (American Pastor, Author)

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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist)

All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy (American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman)

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. Stephen S. Wise

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To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. Peter Nivio Zarlenga (American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos)

The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. Eileen Caddy (American Spiritual Writer) The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world. Betty Grable

Capital isn't scarce; vision is. Sam Walton (1918-1992, American Businessman, Founder of Wal-Mart Stores)

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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist)

No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. Harriet Du Autermont

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams --even if it takes a lifetime. Vijali Hamilton

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Character matters; leadership descends from character. Rush Limbaugh (1951-, American TV Personality)

The art of communication is the language of leadership. James Humes (American Lawyer, Speaker, Author)

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Leadership Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Warren Bennis (1925-, American Psychologist, Management Educator, and Consultant)

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players. Larry Bird (1956-, American Basketball Player, Coach)

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American Management Consultant, Author)

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet)

Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker (1909-, American Management Consultant, Author)

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirtyfourth President of the USA)

You do not lead by hitting people over the head --that's assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, Thirtyfourth President of the USA)

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-, American Economist)

Popularity is not leadership. Richard Marcinko (American Business Author) 77 | G E T I N S P I R E D

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader)

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. Edward Hennessy (American Business Executive, CEO of Allied Signal)

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. Theodore M. Hesburgh (1917-, American Clergyman, University President) Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. John Naisbitt (American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author)

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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers. James Humes (American Lawyer, Speaker, Author) It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA)

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control. Tom Landry (1924-, American Football Player, Coach)Leadership is action, not position. Donald H. Mcgannon

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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. Vance Packard (1914-, American Journalist, Writer)

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Thomas J. Peters (1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer)

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher)

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher) 80 | G E T I N S P I R E D

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. Jim Rohn (American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher)

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934-, American General of the Gulf War)

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow -to the end at all costs. Harold J. Seymour

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to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable. Claude Taylor

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul. Orway Tead

Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis. The EMS Manager Newsletter

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. Robert Townsend (American Businessman, President of Avis)

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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Stephen R. Covey (American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'')

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader)

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system. Stephen R. Covey (American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'')

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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. James Humes (American Lawyer, Speaker, Author)

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Goals The most important thing about goals is having one. Geoffrey F. Abert

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. Greg Anderson (American Author of ''The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness'')

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe,

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and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. Stephen A. Brennan (American Basketball Coach)

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Goals help you channel your energy into action. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

You may not accomplish every goal you set --no one does --but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey (1859-1952, American Philosopher, Educator)

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. Fitzhugh Dodson

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. Dan Dierdorf (American Football Player)

The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past. Charles J. Givens (American Businessman, Author, Trainer)

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things --to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-, New Zealand Mountaineer)

Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' --to work for and hope for. Maxwell Maltz (American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics'')

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There is no achievement without goals. Robert J. Mckain

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky. Ronald McNair

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into. Brian Tracy (American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman)

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. Zig Ziglar (Author, Motivational Speaker) 90 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bull’s-eye at 50 feet, and then split the first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life! Zig Ziglar (American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker)

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley (1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert)

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ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant)

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk. J. C. (James Cash) Penney (1875-1971, American Retailer, Philanthropist, Founder JC Penny's)

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself. Herbert A. Otto

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker)

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. Maxwell Maltz (American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics'')

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker)

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You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. Les Brown (1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer)

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it --ink it! Source Unknown

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Success For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh'')

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen (1935-, American Director, Screenwriter, Actor, Comedian)

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field. Sparky Anderson (American Baseball Manager)

You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you. Dr. Robert Anthony (American educator)

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Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1. Arthur Ashe (1943-1993, African-American Tennis Player)

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965, American Financier)

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer) 96 | G E T I N S P I R E D

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. 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 (1847-1922, Britishborn American Inventor of Telephone)

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Al Bernstein

The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success. Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901, British Historian and Novelist)

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When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure. Louis Binstock (American Minister)

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness. Louis Binstock (American Minister)

Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle. Edwin C. Bliss (American Author)

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world. Edward William Bok (1863-1930, Dutch-born American Editor)

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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. Erma Bombeck (1927-, American Author, Humorist)

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell

To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande (American Success Writer)

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Dr. Joyce Brothers (1927-, American Psychologist, Television and Radio Personality)

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Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller (1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist)

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American Poet)

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams. Og Mandino (1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker)

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step. Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine)

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, --this is happiness, this is success. Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine)

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose. G. K. Nielson

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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. Earl Nightingale (1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker)

The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized. Charles E. Popplestone

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant)

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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA)

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life? Anthony Robbins (1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant)

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Love Teach only love for that is what you are. A Course In Miracles (Course on Forgiveness Based on Christianity, Eastern Philosophy)

Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American Author)

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic)

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible --it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could. 104 | G E T I N S P I R E D

Barbara De Angelis (American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author)

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred. Barbara De Angelis (American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author)

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh Ardele

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

Love is the beauty of the soul. St. Augustine

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love. Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher)

We must love one another or die. W. H. Auden (1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet)

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian)

(354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian)

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and

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want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian)

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. Myrtle Auvil

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey (1918-1990, American Vocalist, Movie and Stage Actress)

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937, British Playwright)

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. Lynda Barry (American Cartoonist, Painter, Essayist)

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. Orlando A. Battista

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. Pierre De Beaumarchais (1732-1799, French Dramatist)

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

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Love is the river of life in the world. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear. Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians] Bible (Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism)

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. Smiley Blanton (1882-?, American Author)

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. Robert Browning (1812-1889, British Poet)

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. Plato (BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher)

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa (1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary)

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791, Austrian Composer)

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives --to give, and give, and give. John Oxenham

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. Proverb Love can neither be bought nor sold, its only price is love. Proverb

A heart that loves is always young. Greek Proverb (Sayings of Greek Origin)

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. Japanese Proverb (Sayings of Japanese Origin)

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. Ronald Reagan (1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor)

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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Brian Tracy (American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman)

Finally, If a man is called to be a street sweeper, He should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say; Here lived a great sweeper who did his job well. Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. Martin Luther King.

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ARISTOTLE The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

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Hope is a waking dream.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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SOCRATES Wisdom begins in wonder.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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PLATO We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others

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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Love is a serious mental disease.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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GHANDHI The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Where there is love there is life.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

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Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

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EINSTEIN Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

When the solution is simple, God is answering

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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CONFUCIOUS Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

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.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

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To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.

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CICERO Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

While there's life, there's hope.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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Winston Churchill You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. and finally,

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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