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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.”

“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”

“There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.”

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”

“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

“I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

“Keep away from 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.”

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”