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“People often say that motivation doesn't last.
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- T H A T ' S     W H Y     W E        R E C O M M E N D     I T     D A I L Y ! "     -Zig Ziglar
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"Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.”
- Jawaharlal Nehru
“You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.”
- Augustine of Hippo
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
- Thomas Carlyle
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to LIVE by them.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
- Anne Sexton
“I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all.”
- Bonnie Raitt
"The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything."
- Mike Nichols
“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us."
- George Edward Moore
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day..."
- Bob Feller
“We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.”
- Gary Player
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
- John Keats
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
- Jean Giraudoux
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
- Bill Gates
"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”
- Napoleon Hill
“It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.”
- Brenda Ueland
“Talent alone won't make you a success; Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'”
- Johnny Carson
"It"s not bad to say: 'My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger' ...What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate, to pretend that you...like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
- Doris Lessing
“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
- Joyce Brothers
“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
- Chuck Swindoll
“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
- Arthur Miller
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
- Oscar Wilde
“He who has a why can endure any how.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
- E. E. Cummings
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