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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach then, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
-Louisa May Alcott

Failures are divided into two classes-those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
-John Charles Salak

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-George Bernard Shaw

Many receive advice, Only the wise profit from it.
-Syrus

Chance favors the prepared mind.
-Louis Pasteur

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
-J. Lubbock

When two men in a business always agree, one of them in unnecessary.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
-Daniel H. Burnham

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
-Chinese Proverb

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
-Channing Pollock

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
-James Allen

When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
-R. H. Grant

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
-C. W. Ceran

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
-Abraham Lincoln

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
-Katherine Graham

Winners expect to win in advance, Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do, But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make.
-Spirella

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-Walter Gagehot

The man who believes he can do something is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it-but all that had gone before.
-Jacob Riis

Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have- so spend it wisely.
-Kay Lyons

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

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
-Jonathan Swift

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
-Andrew Carnegie

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