ACTION .

Action

Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.
Michelle Keesling

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Nothing happens until I make it happen.
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You can’t build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words;

they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
Florence Nightingale

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Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action!

The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough

who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
W. Clement Stone

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Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and

begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill

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There are costs and risks to a program of action,

but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

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What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen

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Never confuse motion with action.
Benjamin Franklin

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Just Do It!
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done,

of what he can do, Nothing else.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin

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Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say.

I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wayne Dyer

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You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.
Irish Proverb

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley

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Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

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Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

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Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily

by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.
Helen Gahagan Douglas

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I have long since come to believe that people never mean

half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Dorothy Day

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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Louis Bergson

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The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until

he does so by his actions.
Source Unknown

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Good intentions are not good enough...

ultimately we are measured by our actions.
Source Unknown

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Conditions are never just right. People who delay

action until all factors are favourable do nothing.
William Feather

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

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Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving.

They make mistakes, bu they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton

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To do nothing is in every man's power.
Samuel Johnson

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Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take.

You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Alfred A. Montapert

Achievement

Achievement

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
C. Malesherbes

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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

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Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

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There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
Mary Kay Ash

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Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Mary Kay Ash

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.

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Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do.
Anonymous

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Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

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All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
Morarji Desai

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh

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The future is not a gift - it is an achievement.
Harry Lauder

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If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey

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There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
J. G. Holland

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Jack Kinder

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An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus

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Ability

Ability

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
Bob Edwards

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Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
Casey Stengel

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Natural abilities are like natural plants;

they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes

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Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities,

and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton

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It is a fine thing to have ability,

but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Elbert Hubbard

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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that

which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

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They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil

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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;

it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Booker T. Washington

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We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder

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Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren

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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse;

however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming,

I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If we did the things we are capable of,

we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

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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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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Goethe

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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done.
Longfellow

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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly

with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian

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You have to have confidence in your ability, and

then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Smith Carter

Courage

Courage

The stories of past courage... can offer hope,

they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself.

For this each man must look into his own soul.
John F. Kennedy

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All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

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A man full of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero

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Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

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Courage is the first of human qualities,

because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

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Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear -

not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.

It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton

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Perfect courage is todo without witnesses

what one would be capable of doing before all the world.
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in

which we really stop to look fear in the face ...

we must do that which we think we cannot.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,

we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,

but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
Robert Cushing

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In order to discover new lands,

one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Anonymous

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali

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You can't test courage cautiously.
Anne Dillard

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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Difficulties

Difficulties

Real difficulties can be overcome;

it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Theodore N. Vail

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The individual who know the score about

life sees difficulties as opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

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There are two ways of meeting difficulties:

you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome

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You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and

have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault.

The same with man. No man will succeed unless

he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities.
William J.H. Boetcker

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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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When I hear somebody sigh that Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask,

Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris

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Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,

you will never grow.
Ronald E. Osborn

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If you would only recognize that life is hard,

things would be so much easier for you.
Louis D. Brandeis

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Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
Jameson Frank

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The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in

difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty

that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle

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No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our

wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us,

no obstacle is too great to overcome.
Roy Lessin

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most

useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this:

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes,

hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say,

"I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers

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Difficulties should act as a tonic.

They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes

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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately;

the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
George Santayana

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It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
Louis Kossuth

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Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William E. Channing

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Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed,

it is difficulties that make the triumph.

It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
Source Unknown

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

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It is a good rule to face difficulties at the time

they arise and not allow them to increase unacknowledged.
Edward W. Ziegler

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

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To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can't just accept the ones you like.
Mike Gafka

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Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Lady Holland

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For every mountain there is a miracle.
Robert H. Schuller

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.

I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune;

but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving

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A desire can overcome all objections and obstacles.
Gunderson

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Obstacles are like wild animals.

They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.

If they see you are afraid of them...

they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye,

they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

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The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort

and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
Martin Luther King Jr.

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Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors.
African Proverb

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It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Vince Lombardi

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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale

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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you,

they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm

The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
Walter Chrysler

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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles

and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale

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I studied the lives of great men and famous women,

and I found that the men and women who got to

the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand,

with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
Henry Truman

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A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab

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The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,

let it be - enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

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Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream.

This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it,

taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Denis Waitley

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You can do anything if you have enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars.

With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
Henry Ford

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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Enthusiasm - the sustaining power of all great action.
Samuel Smiles

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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale

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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it?

You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
Gordon Parks

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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and

without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
Kahlil Gibran

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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

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Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and

who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts

find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out,

so will new opportunities.
Norman Vincent Peale

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There is a real magic in enthusiasm.

It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Christian Nestell Bovee

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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm

will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball

FAILURE

Failure

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
Ferdinand Foch

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

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If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
Collins, Marva

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I don't know the the key to success,

but the key to failure is trying to please everbody.
Cosby, Bill

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It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.
Lombardi, Vince

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There is always another chance...

This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down.
Pickford, Mary

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Far better it is to dare mighty things,

to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nobody makes a greater mistake than

he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke

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If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.

But above all, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes.

You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers --

they help us to learn.
John Bradshaw

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The greatest mistake a man can ever make is to be afraid of making one.
Elbert Hubbard

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So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.

Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success;

we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do;

and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles

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A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable

but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

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There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -

not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
O. A. Battista

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I have made mistakes,

but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett

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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow.

Pain nourishes your courage.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill

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The way a man plays a game shows some of his character.

The way he loses shows all of it.
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Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize

how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

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Our greatest glory is not in never failing,

but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you don't accept failure as a possibility,

you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -

you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter

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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action.

You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash

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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard

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A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure

until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs

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There are two kinds of failures:

The man who will do nothing he is told,

and the man who will do nothing else.
Perle Thompson

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If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.
Thomas Watson, Sr

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Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

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It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt.
SueEllen Fried

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Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Henry Ford

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The majority of men meet with failure because

of their lack of persistence in creating new plans

to take the place of those which fail.
Napoleon Hill

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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at

something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

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Many people dream of success. To me,

success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Soichiro Honda

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people

who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move.

Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
Amar Gopal Bose

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller

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Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
Walter Brunell

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I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me

. . Failure always made me try harder next time.
Michael Jordan

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Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
German Proverb

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

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There is something good in all seeming failures.

You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
Sri Swami Sivananda

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