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“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
Les Brown
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
William Faulkner
“Real living is living for others.”
Bruce Lee
“If you don't program yourself, life will program you.”
Les Brown
“The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.”
Michelangelo
“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
Nelson Mandela
“Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.”
Napoleon Hill
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ”
Beverly Sills
“The pain you feel today will be the strength you feel tomorrow.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
Gustave Flaubert
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
D. H. Lawrence
“You Create Your Own Present By What You Give Your Attention To Today.”
Spencer Johnson
“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
Tennessee Williams
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
Lao Tzu
“When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.”
Criss Jami
“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
Eric Hoffer
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”
Og Mandino
“Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.”
St. Jerome
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
— Tom Stoppard
“Life is but one dream flowing into another.”
Ming-Dao Deng
“I’m no genius, but I’m smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.”
Thomas J. Watson
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci

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