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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,
so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off
until the day after tomorrow what should
have been done the day before yesterday.
- Napoleon Hill

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Success often grows best in the fertile soil of failure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

A little more persistence,
a little more effort, and
what seemed hopeless failure
may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

Success is the sum of small efforts,
repeated day in and day out.
- Robert Collier

There is no short cut to achievement.
Life requires thorough preparation -
veneer isn't worth anything.
- George Washington Carver

It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins

People who work together will win,
whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy

A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie

Intent is what can make a man succeed
when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated.
- Carlos Castaneda

Get busy living or get busy dying.
- Stephen King

A bend in the road is not the end of the road
unless you fail to make the turn.
- Anonymous

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

Success... A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison

Your life is the manifestation of your dream;
it is an art.
You can change your life anytime if
you aren't enjoying the dream.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran

All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

I find that the harder I work,
the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
- Nolan Bushnell

Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
- Anonymous

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

A hero may or may not lead other people,
but all heroes lead themselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

Movement energizes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything.
- Win Borden

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

You cannot escape the responsibility
of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie