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“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

“The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

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

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”

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

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“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.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“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.”

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

“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.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“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.”