“The only sin is mediocrity.” 

- Martha Graham: Choreographer

“Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.”

- Eudora Welty

“Vision without execution is hallucination.”

- Thomas Edison

“Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.” 

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after."
- Anthony Robbins: Motivational speaker and author

"Each man [is] the architect of his own fortune."
- Appius Caecus: Early Roman political figure and road builder

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
- William Faulkner: Was an American author

“Life is a gamble at terrible odds. If it were a bet, you would not take it.” 

- Playwright Tom Stoppard

"As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more of the things you can be grateful for."
-Joe Vitale: Hypnotic marketer and author

"Most people diffuse their psychic energy (attention) in hundreds of random ways. Those who flow focus their psychic energy intentionally upon the task at hand. It really boils down to knowing your goal, concentrating upon it, remaining determined, and having the self-discipline to complete what you are doing."
-Dick Sutphen: Psychic researcher, hypnotist, author

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."
- Carlos Castaneda: Was an anthropologist and author

"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."
- Warren Buffett: Investor, billionaire, and philanthropist

"Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't."

- Unknown Author

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit—a reputation and character."
- John D. Rockefeller: Was an industrialist and philanthropist

"Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small."
— Tim Ferriss: Author, entrepreneur, and public speaker

"Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all."
- Dr. David Hawkins: Psychiatrist, physician, spiritual teacher, lecturer

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."
- Robert Orben: Is a magician and comedy writer

"By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent."
- Mark Zuckerberg: Entrepreneur who co-founded Facebook

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” 

-Mark Twain

"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."
— Abraham Lincoln: Was the 16th U.S. president

"What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start m aking a list of things to be grateful for."
— Dr. Joe VItale: Motivational author and speaker

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” 

— Albert Einstein

“Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.” 

— Ernest Hemingway

“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.”

— John Dewey

“Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.”  

— Washington Irving

"If successful people have one common trait, it's an utter lack of cynicism. The world owes them nothing. They go out and find what they need without asking for permission; they're driven, talented, and work through negatives by focusing on the positives."

— Mike Zimmerman

“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”

— Martin Van Buren

“Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.”

— Calvin Coolidge

“It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation and only one bad one to lose it.” 

— Benjamin Franklin

"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."
— Michelangelo: 15th-16th century Italian sculptor, painter, and architect

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
— Abraham Lincoln: Was the 16th president of the United States

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."
— John D. Rockefeller: Was an American industrialist and philanthropist

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” 

— Winston Churchill

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
— Mahatma Gandhi: was a political and spiritual leader of India

"Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose."
— Lance Armstrong: 7-time winner of the Tour de France

"Life is an adventure, dare it."
—

Mother Teresa: Nobel Peace Prize winner

"You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
— Steve Jobs: Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.

"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
— Brian Tracy: Self-help author and lecturer

"Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed — borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves."
— Osho: Was an Indian mystic, guru, and philosopher

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
— Abraham Lincoln

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

— Thomas Edison

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
— Harvey Firestone: Tire executive

"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our  lives, but the meaning we attach to the events — how we  interpret them — that shapes who we are today  and who we'll become tomorrow."

— Tony Robbins

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”

— James Cameron: Director & Writer

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

“Never interrupt an enemy when he is making a mistake.” 

— Napoleon: was a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” 

— Abraham Lincoln: served as the 16th President of the United States

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”   
— President Dwight Eisenhower: 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a five-star general in the United States Army

"Success is a lousy teacher.” 
— Bill Gates: American Entrepreneur and Founder of Microsoft Co.

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."
— Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt: three term President of the United States

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose.”

— Thomas Edison: American Inventor and Businessman

“[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.”

— Bill Gates: American Entrepreneur and Founder of Microsoft Co.

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

— Steve Jobs: American Entrepreneur and Apple co-Founder

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
— Benjamin Franklin: Founding Father of the United States of America

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