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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

“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.”

“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

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

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”