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In three words I can
sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
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Surround yourself with
the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
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Hope never abandons you,
you abandon it.
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Leaders must be close
enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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You can easily judge
the character of a man/woman by how he/she treats those who can do nothing
for him/her.
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You don't manage people;
you manage things. You lead people.
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Perhaps the most valuable
result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do,
when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not . . ..
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We are each gifted in
a unique and important way.
It is our privilege and
our adventure to discover our own special light.
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Feeling gratitude and
not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Character is doing the
right thing when nobody's looking.
There are too many people
who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,
and the only thing that's
wrong is to get caught.
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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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Common sense and a sense
of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just
common sense, dancing.
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Excuses are the nails
used to build a house of failure.
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If life had a second
edition, how I would correct the proofs.
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I am a great believer
in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
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Tomorrow is the only
day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
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Failures are but mileposts
on the road to success.
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Anyone who has never
made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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Mistakes are the portals
of discovery.
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The minute you settle
for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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Do or do not. There is
no try!
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If you don't think every
day is a good day, just try missing one.
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Courage is the power
to let go of the familiar.
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Dance first. Think later.
It's the natural order.
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How is it that we never
have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?
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Happiness is the feeling
you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
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Showing people that you
sincerely care about them can often be as easy as listening to them.
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It had long since come
to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things
happen to them.
They went out and happened
to things.
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If malice or envy were
tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
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To fight fear, act. To
increase fear--wait, put off postpone.
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Few of us have lost our
minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.
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It is health that is
real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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Look at life through
the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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The most important trip
you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
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In three words I can
sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
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One kind word can warm
three winter months.
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Blessed are the flexible,
for they are never bent out of shape.
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Nostalgia is like a grammar
lesson: you find the present tense and the past perfect.
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Although the world is
full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
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We learn the rope of
life by untying its knots.
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If we did all the things
we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
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Leadership: the art of
getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to
do it.
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It takes 20 years to
build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.
If you think about that,
you'll do things differently.
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How wonderful it is that
nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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I'm always thinking about
creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning.
Every day I find something
creative to do with my life.
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The only people with
whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
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Opportunities do not
come with their values stamped upon them.
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The greater danger for
most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim
too low, and achieving our mark.
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Luck is when preparation
meets opportunity.
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I'm a great believer
in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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Enthusiasm is one of
the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing,
do it with all your might.
Put your whole soul into
it.
Stamp it with your own
personality.
Be active, be energetic,
be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective.
Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
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