We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

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We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

- Jack Schwartz


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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

- William Butler Yeats

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I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.

- Confucius

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.


- Liane Cardes

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Zig Ziglar

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

- James Whitcomb Riley

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What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

- Thomas Crum

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Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

- Mary Lou Retton

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To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

- Katherine Graham

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It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

- Henry David Thoreau

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

- Les Brown

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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

- Charles Kettering

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There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

- Kurt Hahn

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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

- Bernard M. Baruch

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

- Galileo Galilei

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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

- Grenville Kleiser

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Choose once and for all to get past all of the former excuses that stopped you from achieving your goal or dream and step into your power by saying: "This is my time, my life, my moment of truth. I will not stop until I achieve my goal!"

Realizing that being unstoppable is simply a decision that you make every day, every hour, or sometimes every minute gives you the awareness that it is a choice.

And every time you choose to honor your commitment and take a single step, you are honoring yourself and exercising your self-discipline muscle. With each step you take, that muscle will grow stronger and stronger, making it easier to bring about change in your life.

Your time is now. Make a pledge to yourself that you are fully committed to reaching your goal.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

- Albert Einstein

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"Creative," "flexible," "imaginative" - these three words are almost interchangeable. If you are creative, you can think of alternative ways to work around problems, ways that align with your own skills and reflect your values. If you are flexible, you are able and willing to change and modify plans; you adjust to new circumstances and needs. If you are imaginative, you envision what is not and what can be--you see in your mind what you haven't yet seen in the material world.

All three words refer to your willingness to experiment with new approaches and fresh solutions. When you have these qualities, you will bend and not break when challenges arise.

When a great wind blows, that which is rigid will snap
and break. That which is flexible will bend. When the
wind dies down and calm returns, the flexible will rise
again.

We see almost limitless creativity in inventors. We have all read or heard the stories of people like the Wright brothers, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.

These people triumphed by using imagination and flexibility. They experimented with new materials and techniques that often seemed unrealistic or preposterous at the time. For years, they suffered failure after failure, but they never felt regret. Each time they simply abandoned what did not work, revised their theories, and continued to look for what would work. They were flexible and humble enough to learn from other people's ideas and experiments and to adapt them to their own projects.


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Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

- Robert Collier

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

- Arthur Pine

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

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