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“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

“Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

“Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”