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“If you can’t stop thinking about it, don’t stop working for it.”— Unknown
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“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” –Albert Einstein
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“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got.” –Anonymous
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“If you don’t burn out at the end of each day, you’re a bum.”– George Lois
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“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.” –Jim Rohn
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“If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents–start charging for it.” –Kim Garst
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“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it–teach yourself to be impatient.” –Gurbaksh Chahal
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“If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.”– Orson Scott Card
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“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” –Thomas J. Watson
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“If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.” –Anonymous
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“If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!”–T. Harv Eker
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“If you work hard and study hard. And you fuck up. That’s okay. If you fuck up and you fuck up, then you’re a fuckup.”– Justin Halpern
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“If you're going through hell keep going.” –Winston Churchill
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“If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.” ― Melody Carstairs
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“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.” –Jane Smiley
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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” –Steve Jobs
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“Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.”– Helen Hanson
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” –Herman Melville
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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.” –Anonymous
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“It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.” ― Sue Nelson Buckley
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“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” –Proverb
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“Knowledge is being aware of what you can do. Wisdom is knowing when not to do it.” –Anonymous
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”– Louis Pasteur
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“Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –Lolly Daskal
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“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.” –Washington Irving
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“Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”— Unknown
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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all” –Dale Carnegie
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“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun
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“Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life.” ― Katina Ferguson
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“No great achiever – even those who made it seem easy – ever succeeded without hard work.”– Jonathan Sacks
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“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” –Anonymous
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”— Maria Robinson
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“Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.”– Paul Coffey
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“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.” –Anonymous
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“Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.”– Haile Gebrselassie
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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” –Francis Chan
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“Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet.”– Habeeb Akande
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“Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.”— Chinese Proverb
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“People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.” ― Anuj Somany
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“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing–that's why we recommend it daily.” –Zig Ziglar
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“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” –Dale Carnegie
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“People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.” ― Sachin Tendulkar
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“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” –Theodore N. Vail
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“Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anybody else”— Unknown
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“Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.” ― Amit Kalantri
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“Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.” ― Kellie Elmore
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“Sometimes there is no next time, no timeouts, and no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.”— Unknown
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“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”– Saint Francis
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“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” –George Bernard Shaw
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“Success is … knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” –John C. Maxwell
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“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” –Maya Angelou
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“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” –Robert Collier
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“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” –Winston Churchill
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“Successful entrepreneurs are givers and not takers of positive energy.” –Anonymous
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“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.” –Jim Rohn
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“Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him.”– Eliel Pierre
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“Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.”– Patrick Suskind
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“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.” –Guy Kawasaki
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“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”– Jimmy Johnson
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” –Bruce Feirstein
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“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” –Mark Caine
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”— Unknown
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“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” –Ralph Nader
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“The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”– John Ruskin
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“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” –Anonymous
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“The moment when you want to quit is the moment when you need to keep pushing.”— Unknown
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“The more things you do, the more you can do.”— Lucille Ball
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“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” –Napoleon Hill
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“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” –Anonymous
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“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” –Vidal Sassoon
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“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”– Harry Golden
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“The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” –Colin R. Davis
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“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” –Napoleon Hill
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“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” –Bruce Lee
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“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”–Benjamin Mays
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“The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.” –Henry Ford
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“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”– Beverly Sills
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“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.” –Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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“There’s nothing you can’t do if you want it bad enough.” ― Danielle Sibarium
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“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” –John Wooden
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“Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.” –A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
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“This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls – to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.” ― Virchand
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” –Anatole France
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“To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.” ― Amit Kalantri
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“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.” –Mike Gafka
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” –Anonymous
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“Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it's safe or certain.”–Anonymous
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“Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.” –Albert Einstein
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“Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.”— Henry Van Dyke
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“We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.” –Earl Nightingale
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“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” –Oscar Wilde
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“What's the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable.” –Anonymous
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“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” –Audre Lorde
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“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” –Lolly Daskal
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” –Mark Twain
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“Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” –Vaibhav Shah
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“Work hard and be patient. The rest will follow.”– Unknown
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“You can do anything, but not everything.” –Anonymous
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“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”— Michael Jordan
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“You learn the value of hard work by working hard.”– Unknown
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“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” –Margaret Thatcher
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“You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.”–Philippos
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“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” –Booker T. Washington
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“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” –Michael Jordan
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“You were hired because you met expectations, you will be promoted if you can exceed them.”– Saji Ijiyemi
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“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”— Wayne Gretzky
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“Your problem isn't the problem. Your reaction is the problem.” –Anonymous
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“You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.” –George Lorimer