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“The universe doesn't allow perfection.”
— Stephen Hawking
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs
“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
— Michael Jordan
“If you have to be in a soap opera try not to be cast in the worst role.”
— Judy Garland
“Life has no limitations except the ones you make.”
— Les Brown
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
— Steve Maraboli
“He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully. ”
— Zig Ziglar
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough..”
— Gustave Flaubert
“Not why the addiction but why the pain.”
— Gabor Mate
“Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.”
— Jeffrey Gitomer
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“Better is the enemy of good.”
— Voltaire
“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others succeed.”
— Napoleon Hill
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
— Helen Keller
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'”
— C.S. Lewis
“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”
— Zig Ziglar
“You are not what you think you are, You are not what others think you are, You are what you think others think you are.”
— Unknown
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
— Anne Frank
“Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Knowledge is power.”
— Francis Bacon

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