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“Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.”
— Mary Engelbreit
“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”
— Jim Rohn
“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”
— Plato
“In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.”
— Aristotle
“The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”
— Meister Eckhart
“You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.”
— Jim Rohn
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up. ”
— Babe Ruth
“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
— Aristotle
“Have patience—wait, but do not sit idle; work while you are waiting; smile while you are wearied with monotony; be firm while everything around you is being shaken; be joyous while the ugly face of despair grins at you; speak aloud while the malevolent forces of the nether world try to crush your mind; be valiant and courageous while men all around you are cringing with fear and cowardice.”
— Abdu'l-Baha
“Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.”
— Mohandas Gandhi
“It's not how much you make, it's how much you keep.”
— Anonymous
“You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.”
— Richard Bach
“Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.”
— Celestine Chua
“Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.”
— Jonathon Ive
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
— Coco Chanel
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
— Arnold H. Glasow
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
— William Faulkner
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
— William James
“With self-discipline most anything is possible.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
— Steve Maraboli

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