The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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