You become what you think about. — Earl Nightingale

Being maniacal about something is very helpful. Bill Gates

"Be not afraid of changing slowly; be afraid only of standing still." -- Chinese Proverb

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. – Alexandre Dumas

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – Doris Lessing

You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want. — Zig Ziglar:

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell

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

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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. – Katharine Hepburn

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- C.G. Jung

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
– Truman Capote

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
– Michelangelo Buonarroti

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"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else ...." -- Archibald Alexander

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. Lois McMaster Bujold

Don't find fault, find a remedy. — Henry Ford

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Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. – Lucille Ball

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong. Charles F. Kettering

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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius

Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge & insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. Robert Frost

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor & to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. – Theodore Roosevelt

Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions. -- Albert Einstein

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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. - J.W. Goether

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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When we take one step toward God, he takes seven steps toward us. -- Hindu Proverb

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable. - Walt Disney

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. — Christian Nevell Bovee

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. -- Blaise Pascal

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjöld

You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality. Karl Albrecht

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, & most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mahatma Gandhi

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion.
– Abraham Lincoln

I'm not the sort of person who fears failure. Richard Branson

If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got. — High-tech proverb

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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. - Buddha

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. Etty Hillesum

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. - Milarepa

I only want people around me who can do the impossible. Elizabeth Arden

There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation. – Margaret Deland

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

One thing for sure you can do is push the luck
on your side. Roger Federer

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
– Phillips Brooks

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way. — Henry F. Harrower

We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - Buddha

Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. – Jacob Braude

The almost certain consequences that follow taking even a glass of beer do not crowd into the mind to deter us. Big Book, pg. 24

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people. – Victor Borge

In thinking about our day we may face indecision. … Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. Big Book, pg. 86

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

To realize one's nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning. -- P.D. Ouspensky

I love getting up in the morning. I clap my hands and say, 'This is gonna be a great day.'
-- the late Dicky Fox

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
– Annie Dillard

Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love & inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. Big Book, p. 83

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. -- Isabelle Holland

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. - Claude M.Bristol

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
– Mark Twain

Expect more than others think possible. — Howard Schultz

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin

Belief or the lack of it can be the source of or the end of your inspiration. When you begin to believe, you begin to learn. - Anonymous

I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse

Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project. – Abigail Van Buren