Great Quotes
"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     

 
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
George Washington Carver       
 
"If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is
threatened to be a repeat of the past."
A.R. Bernard     
 
"No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?"
Lee Iacocca       

"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."
Louise Hay         

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
Richard DeVos       
 
"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but
cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." 
Michael J. Fox       
 
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
Henry Ford       
 
"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
Helen Keller      
 
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
Thomas A. Edison      
 
"Most misfortunes are the results of misused time."
Napoleon Hill      
 
"One of the tragic things I know about human nature
is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
Dale Carnegie     
 
"You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end."
Sidney A. Friedman     
 
"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."   
Dr. Wayne Dyer     
 
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures,
but of the success that may come tomorrow. You
have set yourself a difficult task, but you will
succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy
in overcoming obstacles."
Helen Keller     
 
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"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt     

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
Warren Buffett     
"If you look at the world, you will be distressed. If you look within, you will be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest!"
Corrie ten Boom    
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"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
Elbert Hubbard     
 
            
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"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other man to die."
Malachy McCourt     
 
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."
Ben Stein     
 
“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.”
St Catherine of Siena     
 
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