Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.
Charles Schwab
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
Lee Jampolsky
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
Abraham H. Maslow
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Dale Carnegie
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt
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