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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“What helps people, helps business.”

“My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

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

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”

“I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.”

“The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.”

“Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

“It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.”

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.”

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

“Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.”

“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.”

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

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