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“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
George Bernard Shaw
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”
Epictetus
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
Charles Dickens
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Act the way you want to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
Les Brown
“I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.”
George Washington
“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”
Abdul Kalam
“Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.”
— Treat Williams
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Altruism is not always an act of heroism, but often it's just doing what you would like others to do for you. It's generosity, compassion, and love.”
— Michael Novak
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
Saint Francis de Sales
“You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.”
Zig Ziglar
“The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.”
Alexander Graham Bell
“Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.”
Robert F. Kennedy
“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Discipline yourself, and others won't need to.”
John Wooden
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
— Lord Acton
“In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ”
Beverly Sills
“Humans and prosperity never endure side by side for long.”
Herodotus
“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker.”
Eckhart Tolle
“If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.”
Henry Ford
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
— E. B. White

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