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• "Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

  Norman Vincent Peale

• "Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement."

  Willa Cather

• "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

  Mark Twain

• "Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

  John Wooden

• "We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

  Jacob Bronowski

• "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

  Walter Bagehot

• "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

  Helen Keller

• "The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."

  Thomas Edison

• "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

  William James

• "Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without."

  James Allen

• "One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."

  Dr. Robert Anthony

• "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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

• "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

  St. Francis of Assisi

• "Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea.  It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

  Nolan Bushnell

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