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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

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Inspiration and genius--one and the same. - Victor Hugo

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To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer Lytton

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If you would create something, you must be something. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

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Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself. - W. C. Doane

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. - Benjamin Disraeli

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Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

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No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can. - Thomas Carlyle

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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes

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The power of imagination makes us infinite. - John Muir

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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. - Epictetus

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Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

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They can because they think they can. - Virgil

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Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson

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Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. - Theodore T. Hunger

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We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. - Cicero

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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Loyd Wright

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The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience. - Elbert Hubbard

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There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley

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Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. - A. Branson Alcott

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The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

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The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance. - Owen Feltham

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Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. - Dennis Waitley

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. - Vince Lombardi

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Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. - Jeremy Collier

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

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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. - Josh Billings

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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Earl of Beaconsfield

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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Jospeph Addison

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Impatience never commanded success. - Edwin H. Chapin

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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well. - Henry W. Longfellow

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To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. - William Shakespeare

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Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. - Albert Einstein

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The man who makes a success of an important venture never wails for the crowd. He strikes out for himself. It takes nerve, it takes a great lot of grit; but the man that succeeds has both. Anyone can fail. The public admires the man who has enough confidence in himself to take a chance. These chances are the main things after all. The man who tries to succeed must expect to be criticized. Nothing important was ever done but the greater number consulted previously doubted the possibility. Success is the accomplishment of that which most people think can't be done. - C. V. White

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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. - W.C. Fields

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It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. - George S. Patton

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Storms make oaks take roots. - Proverb

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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - St. Clement of Alexandra

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We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder

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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

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Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. - Johann Gottfried Von Herder

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And all may do what has by man been done. - Edward Young

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. - Samuel Smiles

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Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. - Voltaire

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You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. - Author Unknown

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The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William B. Sprague

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson

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Fortune favors the brave. - Publius Terence

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When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

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He who hesitates is lost. - Proverb

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If you want to succeed in the world must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the roadside until some one comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. - John B. Gough

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

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Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. - Orison Swett Marden

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are still masters of our fate.We are still captains of our souls. - Winston Churchill

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For hope is but the dream of those that wake. - Matthew Prior

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Constant dripping hollows out a stone. - Lucretius

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. - Aristotle

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Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. - Marcus Aurelius

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People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. - George Matthew Allen

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In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. - Aldous Huxley

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There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you. - David Burns, Intimate Connections

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. - Euripides

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Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool. - John M. Good

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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

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A light heart lives long. - William Shakespeare

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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. - Charles Caleb Colton

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell

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Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. - Epictetus

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Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin

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There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. - John Stuart Mills

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You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. - Robert F. Kennedy

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli

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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. - William Ellery Channing

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There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mahatma Ghandi

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The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken. - Henry W. Longfellow

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. - Douglas Jerrold

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Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. - J. Petit Senn

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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. - Albert Camus

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Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle

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Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours. - Thomas Fuller

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Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana

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No man is happy who does not think himself so. - Publilius Syrus

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Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road. - Charles Caleb Colton