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“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you.”
James Allen
“A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”
— Jim Watkins
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?”
— Nicholas Sanford
“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
— Daniel Defoe
“I take the position that I'm always to some degree wrong, and the aspiration is to be less wrong.”
Elon Musk
“Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”
— Elvin Hansen MD
“The play 's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.”
— Vernon Morar
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
Maya Angelou
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
— George Santayana
“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
Virginia Woolf
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
Napoleon Hill
“It's not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
Charles Dickens
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.”
Mark Twain
“I cannot make my days longer. So I strive to make them better.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”
Isaac Asimov
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie
“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”
Lao Tzu
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
Barack Obama
“We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.”
— G.K. Chesterton

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