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“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.”

“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”

“One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”

“My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”

“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“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.”

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.”

“If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.”

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”