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“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.”

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

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

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”

“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

“If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.”

“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

“Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.”

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“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.”

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

“I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”

“I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.”