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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
-H. Ross Perot

All great achievements require time.
-David Joseph Schwartz

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
-Claude M. Bristol

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-Napoleon Hill

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
-Arnold J. Toynbee

A man carries his success or his failure with him...it does not depend on outside conditions...
-Ralph Waldo Trine

Not in time, place or circumstances but in the man lies success...
-Charles B. Rouss

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.
-Lady Nancy Astor

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
-Betty Ford

I cannot change yesterday. I can only make the most of today, and look with hope toward tomorrow.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
-Amelia Earhart

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-George Bernard Shaw

The smallest good deed is greater than the grandest intention.

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't bee able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
-Mary Kay Ash

After the verb "to Love", "to Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.
-Bertha von Suttner

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
-James Barrie

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Use the talents you posses; for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.
-Queen Victoria

Happiness is not the absence of conflict but the ability to cope with it.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
-Madam Curie

I never notice what has been done. I only see what remains to be done.
-Madam Curie

Of all our human resources, the most precious is the desire to improve.

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.

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