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Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller

Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams

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

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

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

Stay committed to your decisions,
but stay flexible in your approach.
- Tony Robbins

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman

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

It is not more vacation we need -
it is more vocation.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
- Eddie Cantor

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky

If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Hard work pays off.
- Anonymous

It's fine to celebrate success
but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Bill Gates

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

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
- John Burroughs

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

The season of failure is the best time
for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles
possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Albert Schweitzer

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 most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

To live a satisfying life requires two steps...
1. Plan your life goals.
2. Act on your plan - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Begin with the end in mind.
- Stephen Covey

Set interim goals, preferably daily goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I have not failed.
I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

That some achieve great success,
is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
- Abraham Lincoln

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

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

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- John Wooden

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

He who never made a mistake,
never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

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

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein

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

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

Action is no less necessary than thought
to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie