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"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." - Orpah Winfrey

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much." - Jim Rohn

"The will to succed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." - Bobby Knight

"Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness." - Margaret Thatcher

"Perhaps a man's character is like a tree and his reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances." - Napoléon Bonaparte

"Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems." (Aug 2007)" - Neil Armstrong

"Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially." - Socrates

"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward." - Helen Keller

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The best is yet to be." - Robert Browning

"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams." - Les Brown

"It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into giving." - Mother Teresa

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace." - Mike Ditka

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive." - Dale Carnegie

"In matters of style, swim wiith the current; in matter of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way." - Napoleon Hill

"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - Dale Carnegie

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucious

"The art of conversation lies in listening." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey

"Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate." - Jon Bon Jovi

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it." - Emily Dickinson

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

"True forgiveness is when you can say, thank you for that experience." - Oprah Winfrey

"Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancements, you should include all things in your gratitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness." - Mother Teresa

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - C.S.Lewis

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become" - Oprah Winfrey

"I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger." - Harriet Tubman

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Only life lived for others is worth while (sic)." - Albert Einstein

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step, you enhance immensely the value of your first." - Ralph Waldo Emerson [source]