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Inspiration Flashcards

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Henry David Thoreau on imagination

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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Robert Louis Stevenson on measuring success

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest reaped but by the seeds you plant

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on what to do when you’re afraid

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

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Lucretius on hollowing a stone

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Constant dripping hollows out a stone

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Jane Goodall on your contribution

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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make

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Ernest Hemingway on nobility

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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Edmund Burke on the great mistake

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little

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Vince Lombardi on resolve

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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get back up

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John F Kennedy on what we can do

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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country

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F Scott Fitzgerald on test of intelligence

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function

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Babe Ruth on persistence

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It’s hard to beat someone who doesn’t give up

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William James on our own actions

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does

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Marilyn Vos Savant on being defeated

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent

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Confucious on a man’s words and his actions

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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions

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F. Scott Fitzgerald on confusing defeat

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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat

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Maya Angelou on what people will remember about you

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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

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Michael Jordan on pregame outlook

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I have failed many times, but I have never gone into a game expecting myself to fail

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Winston Churchill on what we are the master of

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We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls

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Albert Einstein on insanity

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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Steve Martin on the course

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The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against the doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on our own power

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

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Jim Ryun on what keeps you going

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Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going

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Maya Angelou on keeping your story silent

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you

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Winston Churchill on what’s required

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Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required

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Albert Einstein on problems and opportunities

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Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity

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Franklin D Rosevelt on keeping it together

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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on

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Abraham Lincoln on whatever you are

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Whatever you are, be a good one

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Audrey Hepburn on nothing is impossible

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

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Stella Juarez on stretching beyond our limits

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Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve

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Martin Luther King jnr on faith

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase

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Horace on acting

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Don’t think, just do

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Winston Churchill on failure and success

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts

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Aldous Huxley on achieving happiness

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

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Nelson Mandela on the impossible

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It always seems impossible until it’s done.

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Rainer Maria Rilke on facing difficulties

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That something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it

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Franklin D. Roosevelt on trying

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It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something

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Sid Caesar on living life

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In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on getting in ones own way

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine

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Winston Churchill on achieving success

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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Knute Rockne on practicing sportsmanship

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One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a 100 teaching it

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Napolean Bonaparte on what a leader is

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A leader is a dealer in hope

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Albert Einstein on solving problems created by ourselves

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We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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Leo Buscaglia on risk

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Risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing

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Mark Twain on developing habits

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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time

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Mark Twain on what we will regret

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do

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Benjamin Franklin on avoiding procrastination

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Never leave till tomorrow which you can do today

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C. JoyBell C. on what fear means

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Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it

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Franklin D. Roosevelt on men’s fate

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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Anonymous on what doesn’t make a skillfull mariner

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A smooth sea never made a skillfull mariner

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Woody Allen on success

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Eighty percent of success is showing up

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Franklin D. Roosevelt on standing still

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There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still

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Guattama Budda on what we are they author of

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Every human being is the author of his own health or disease

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Franklin D. Roosevelt on fear

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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Neale Donald Walsch on discomfit and life

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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

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Confucious on moving a mountain

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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away stones

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Will Durant on habits

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

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Lynn Jennings on excercising the mind

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Mental will is a muscle that needs exercise, just like muscles of the body

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John Dewey on the most important attitude

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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on enthusiasm

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

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Walt Whitman on curiosity

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Be curious, not judgmental.

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Ernest Hemingway on trust

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them

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Socrates on moving the world

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To move the world we must first move ourselves

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Maya Angelou on Defeat

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We may encounter many defeats, but we must never be defeated

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Winston Churchill on making a living

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give

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Dalai Lama XIV on road to happiness

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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they are not on the same road as you does not mean they’ve gotten lost

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Mark Twain on what the world owes us

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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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Joan Baez on action

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Action is the antidote to despair

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Stephen Convey on force behind our lives

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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals

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Mark Twain on secret of getting ahead

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

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Benjamin Franklin on action over words

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Well done is better than well said

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George Bernard Shaw on making yourself

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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself

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Theodore Roosevelt on men making mistakes

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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything

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Richard Bach on a winner’s mindset

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can

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Richard Monckton Milnes on where the virtue lies

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The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize.

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Winston Churchill on hope

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Never, never, never give up

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Martin Luther King jnr on what time it is

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The time is always right to do what is right

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Allan K Chalmers on essentials of life

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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for

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Winston Churchill on courage

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend

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Edmund Hilary on what we conquer

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It’s not the mountain that we conquer but ourselves

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John Ruskin on the highest reward

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The highest reward for one’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it

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Michael Jordan on failure

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I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying

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Walt Disney on dreams and courage

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All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them

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John F Kennedy on expressing grattitude

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

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Mother Teresa on waiting for leaders

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person

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Bill Withers on perseverance

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You can’t get to good without passing through alright

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Maya Angelou on becoming a butterfly

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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Annie Dillard on how we spend our lives

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives

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Charles Kettering on clarity

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved

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Lillian Hellman on what happens over time

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits

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Benjamin Desraeli on taking action

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on experimenting

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better

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Margaret Runbeck on getting to happiness

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Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling

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Henry Ford on outlook

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Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right

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John Di Lemme on self belief

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Believe in yourself. If you don’t, then no one else will have a reason to

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Nelson Mandela what courage is

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear

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Nido Qubein on cost of discipline

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The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on our greatest glory

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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George Eliot on choice

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It’s never too late to be who you might have been

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Theodore Roosevelt on making the most of what you have

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on inventors

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We are all inventors…guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate

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Churchill on price of greatness

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The price of greatness is responsibility

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Henry Longfellow on how men reach their heights

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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night

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Honore De Balzac in what habits make up

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The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance

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Joshua J. Marine on overcoming challenges

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Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful

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John Irving on good habits

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Good habits are worth being fanatical about

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Aristotle on achieving happiness

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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities

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John M Good on what happiness consists of

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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

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Andy Rooney on growth

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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it

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Christopher Reeve on what out dreams start out as

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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable

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Walt Disney on when we believe in a thing

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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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Oscar Wilde on morality and art similarity

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace

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Dalai Lama on what makes happiness

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions

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Confucious on when our goals seem unreachable

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

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Mahatma Ghandi on what our values become

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Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny

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Ralph Waldo Emerson reward for doing things

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The reward for a thing done well is to have it done

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Horace Mann on what habit is

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it

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Arthur C Clarke on what is possible

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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible

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Michael Jordan on why he is a success

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I have failed many times, and that is why I am a success

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Lao Tzu on how we start a long journey

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step

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Muhammad Ali on what it takes to become a champion

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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are

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Zig Ziglar on people who wander around

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People don’t tend to wander around and suddenly find themselves at the top of Mt Everest

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Napolean Hill on waiting

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Don’t wait. The time will never be just right

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Titch Nhat Hahn on what to do

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Smile, breathe and go slowly

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Florence Nightingale on how she achieved her success

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I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

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Burton Hills on achieving happiness

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Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life

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Cicero on gratitude

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of the virtues, but the parent of all the others

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Anonymous on what the the successful person is

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The successful man is the average man, focused

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Criss Jami on the climb

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The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

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Mahatma Gandhi on living and learning

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever

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Eleanor Roosevelt on fear

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Do one thing that scares you every day

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Bruce Lee on thinking about things

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If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done

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Langston Hughes on protecting dreams

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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly

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Paul Brandt on limitations

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Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon on

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Louis Sachar the way forward

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It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward

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Marcel Proust on discovery

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The real journey of discovery lies not in seeking new lanscapes but in seeing with new eyes

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Maya Angelou on courage

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently

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T.S. Eliot on next year’s language

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For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice

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Ghandi on being the change

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Be the change you want to see in the world

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on action over theory

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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory

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Stephen King on starting

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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will

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Aristotle on mental energy

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The energy of the mind is the energy of life

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Ralph Waldow Emerson on life

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Life is journey, not a destination

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery on how we must live

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But the eyes are blind, one must live with the heart

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Eleanor Roosevelt on what the new day brings

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With the new day comes strength and new thoughts

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Paulo Coelho on the secret of life

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The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times

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Michael Jordan on doing the work

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If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life

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Elizabeth Gilbert on where happiness comes from

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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort

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St Clement of Alexandria on the importance of hope

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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes

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Maya Angelou on what achievements require

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All great achievements require time

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on time

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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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Grace Hopper on purpose

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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on what god won’t allow

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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

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