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“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

“A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.”

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”

“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

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

“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.”

“When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

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

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“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.”

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”

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

“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.”