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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.”

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

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

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”

“I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.”

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”

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

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”

“Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”