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“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 past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”

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Book:To clothe the naked: and two other plays

Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays

“The only way to get people to like working hard is to motivate them. Today, people must understand why they're working hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something different.”

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Author:Rick Pitino

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

“No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.”

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Author:Alexander Pope

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

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Author:Antonio Porchia

“The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'”

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Author:Paula Poundstone

“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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Author:Colin Powell

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

Source: My American Journey

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

Source: My American Journey

“I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.”

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Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

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Author:Steve Prefontaine

“You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.”

“Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.”

“A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.”

“Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.”

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Author:Elvis Presley

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.”

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Author:Marcel Proust

“The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.”

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Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.”

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Author:Robert Quillen

“A liar should have a good memory.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)

“Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!”

“Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.”

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Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“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.”

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”

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Author:A. C. Benson

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

“We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.”

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

Author:Christopher Reeve

“Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”

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Author:Adrienne Rich

“One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.”

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Book:The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph

Source: The Heart of a Champion: Inspiring True Stories of Challenge and Triumph

“Calamity is the test of integrity.”

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Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...

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

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience.”

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Author:Hyman Rickover

“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

“The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.”