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• Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.
  Dr. Phil McGraw
• It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, “Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm."
  Sam Levenson
• Each of us must develop an area of excellence where we perform better than almost anyone else.
• Begin with the End in Mind
  "Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions."
  Peter Drucker
• We've all heard about people who've exploded beyond the limitations of their conditions to become examples of the unlimited power of the human spirit.
  You and I can make our lives one of these legendary inspirations, as well, simply by having courage and the awareness that we can control whatever happens in our lives. Although we cannot always control the events in our lives, we can always control our response to them, and the actions we take as a result.
  If there's anything you're not happy about--in your relationships, in your health, in your career--make a decision right now about how you're going to change it immediately.
  Anthony Robbins
• Smile
  Sit up straight. Lift your head up. Lift your eyes. Take a long, deep breath, and smile. Though things may be far from perfect for you, act like it's a great day to be alive.
  Because it is.
  Keep a smile on your face and in your voice. Put a spring in your step. Act like you would act if you were the most confident, successful, joyful person in your town. Speak toothers in kind and positive terms. Think and speak to yourself the same way.
  Embrace the challenges and see their positive possibilities.
  There is no need to delay, even for another moment, the fulfillment that life can bring. See the world around you for what it is, and know that it cannot bring you down. Live
  today as if it is the best day you could possibly imagine. And in doing that you make it so.
  Ralph Marston
• "You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're
  willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being
  a beginner, the whole world opens up to you."
  Barbara Sher {American Author}
• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.
  Theodore Roosevelt
• "Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision
  or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that
  will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to
  put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry
  with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to
  think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come."
  Og Mandino {1923-1996 American Motivational Author & Speaker}
• A problem is your chance to do your best.
  Duke Ellington
• "It is what we think we know already that often prevents us
  from learning."
  Claude Bernard {1813-1878 French Physiologist}

• "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking
  creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
  Lao-Tzu {BC 600-? Chinese Philosopher & Founder of Taoism}
• "It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring."
  Alfred Adler
• "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection
  is demoralizing."                
  Harriet Braiker
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.        
  James M. Barrie
• "If you are worried about money, it simply means that you can and should be earning more.  How are you doing to do it?"
  Brian Tracy
• The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.     
  Robert H. Schuller
• "When you judge another, you do not define them, you define
  yourself."
  Wayne Dyer {American Author & Lecturer}
• "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
  difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
  John Quincy Adams
• Five years from now, we will be a different company, and five y
  years from then, we will be another different company.
  Jacques Nasser, President & CEO, Ford Motor Co.
• "My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other
  hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have
  to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not
  the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not
  intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and
  I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the
  world around me, the better company I am for myself."
  Noel Coward {1899-1973 British Writer}

• Learn how to rethink, and you start to change.
  Chris Turner, Consultant, writer, & speaker
• Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
  German Proverb
• "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."
  William Ernest Henley
• "The great successful men of the world have used their
  imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental
  picture, and then go to work materializing that picture
  in all its details, filling in here, adding a little
  there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily
  building -- steadily building."
  Robert Collier {American Publisher}
• You can fool some of the people some of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
  Abraham Lincoln

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