Achievement

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

--- Theodore Roosevelt

Treat a man as he is; he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be; and he will become as he can and should be.

--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There isn't a person anywhere that isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can.

--- Henry Ford

If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.

--- Sir Isaac Newton

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

--- Pablo Picasso

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Excellence can be achieved if you . . . risk more than others think is safe, love more than others think is wise, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.

--- Anon

It is your attitude more than your aptitude that will determine your altitude!

--- Dr. Gary V. Carter

Plan your work, then work your plan.

--- Jay Virgil Mayhugh

Well done is better than well said.

--- Benjamin Franklin

Load up your mind with pictures capturing your preferred tomorrow. Put the remembrances of the past in a place where they won't block your view.

--- Gary Carter

If I advance, follow me. If I stop, push me. If I fall, inspire me.

--- Robert Cushing

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dwell in the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

--- Buddha

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses . . . on your powers, instead of your problems.

--- Paul J. Meyers

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

--- Vincent T. Lombardi

Dreams are like the stars, they seem so far away, yet never too far to reach.

--- Michael L. Smith

If you're not to be forgotten, when you're dead and rotten; write something worth reading, or do something worth the writing.

--- Benjamin Franklin

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

--- A.E. Hotchner

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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

--- Pamela Vaull Starr

Never let your doubt blind your goals, for your future lies in your ability, not your failure.

--- Anon

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

--- Dale Carnegie

A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.

--- Anon

Don't go into something to test the waters, go into things to make waves.

--- Anon

Attitude

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

--- Tim Hansel

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The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

--- Scott Hamilton

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

--- Dr. Suess

People will always talk about you, especially when they envy you and the life you live. Let them... you affected their lives, they didn't affect yours.

--- Anon

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

--- Aristotle

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

--- Jack London

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If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

--- William Arthur Ward

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

--- Henry Ford

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

--- Pat Riley

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

--- Cicero

Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.

--- Amelia Earhart

Determination

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

--- Winston Churchill

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Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.

--- Peter Brock

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

--- Abraham Lincoln

Stop looking for your purpose . . . BE IT!

--- Dr. Wayne Dyer

Inspiration

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

--- Erin Majors

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.

--- Mark Twain

Ah, but a man's grasp should exceed his reach, or what's a Heaven for?

--- Robert Browning

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

--- Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

--- Eleanor Roosevelt

Lessons learned by ourselves have a greater value than lessons learned through others.

--- Wayne Antaw

Persistence

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

--- Ted Williams

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

--- Thomas Edison

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do . . . Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

--- Ella Fitzgerald

Never, never, never, never give up.

--- Winston Churchill

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

--- Will Rogers

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.

--- Ross Perot

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Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, 'I will do better tomorrow.'

--- Brigham Young

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

--- Henry Ward Beecher

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

--- Kin Hubbard

Perspective

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

--- Abraham Lincoln

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

--- Winston Churchill

At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go back in the same box.

--- Anon

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

--- Chinese Proverb

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

--- G.K. Chesterton

It is not the person who has too little, but the person who always craves more, that is poor.

--- Anon

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We take for granted the things for which we should be giving thanks.

--- Anon

Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait . . . The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons, and results, and reasons simply don't count."

--- Robert Anthony

Success

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

--- General George S. Patton

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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

--- Dale Carnegie

There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.

--- Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

--- Vince Lombardi

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

--- Zig Ziglar

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

--- Henry David Thoreau

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If you always do what you've always done, you will always be where you've always been.

--- Anon

Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

--- Anon

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

--- Eddie Cantor

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