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Few men ever drop dead from overwork, but many quietly curl up and die because of under-satisfaction. - Sidney J. Harris.
The things that come to the man who waits are seldom the things he waited for.
A person is really alive only when he is moving forward to something more.
A task can never be completed until it is started.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
You will never know until you give it a try.
Remember that everything starts out as an idea.
Dreams come true for those who work while they dream.
I have only one life, and it is short enough. Why waste it on things I don't want most?
You are successful the moment you start moving towards worth while goals.
When you set goals for yourself, they work two ways - you work for them and they work for you.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Seneca.
Reach for the stars - you may not get them, but you won't end up with a handful of mud, either.
Do something every day to advance your major purpose.
A successful life is only a series of successful days.
Success is putting simple ideas into practice each and every day.
Failures tend to view persistence as some kind of optional extra. - Andrew Matthews.
Successful people do what losers are too lazy to do.
Beethoven's music teacher once said of him: "As a composer, he's hopeless."
When Thomas Edison was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
Walt Disney was fireed by a nespaper editor because he had "no good ideas".
Caruso's music teacher told him: "You can't sing. You have no voice at all."
Winston Churchill failed sixth grade in school.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Wisdom begins with sacrifice of immediate pleasures for long-range purposes.
Change, even from worse to better, is not made without inconvenience.
The peculiar thing about happiness is that the more you share it the more of it you have.
To realise true happiness, erase the barriers between who you are and what you do. - Paul Keene.
Life is either a great adventure or it is nothing at all. - Helen Keller.
Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius.
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy. - Dale Carnegie.
Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you had left open.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
It's amazing how much "mature wisdom" resembles being too tired.
Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude. - Albert Einstein.
Whether you think you will succeed or not, you are right. - Henry Ford.
Things are often not what they are but how you see them.
To change everything, simply change your attitude.
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. - Marcus Aurelius.
Man is what he thinks about all day long. - the Bible.
If you change your thinking, you will change your life.
If you want something, keep thinking of it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon.
The best way to get what you want in life is to give other people what they want. - Zig Ziglar.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
What we get out of life is in direct proportion to what we put into it.
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
We should correct our own faults by seeing how badly they appear in others.
True maturity begins when you start giving life more than you take from it.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. - F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. - Abraham Lincoln.
No great genius has ever been without some madness. - Aristotle.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain.
It's the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. - Marlene Dietrich.
If at the end of the day you feel dog-tired, maybe it's because you growled all day.
Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is a candy. - Charles F. Abbott.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Eric Bok.
Books think for me. - Charles Lamb.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus
I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. But flowers work almost as well. - Robert Heinlein.
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. - Clive James.
If it works, it's out of date. - Stafford Beer.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke.
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