"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

Buscaglia, Leo on motivation
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on friends and friendship
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there."

Browne, Harry on circumstance
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important."

King Jr. Martin Luther on age and aging
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"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

Swindoll, Charles on attitude
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"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. on change
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle..."

Hill, Napoleon on growth
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on ideals and idealism
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

Butterworth, Eric on desire
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."

Brown, Les on goals
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"In my stars I am above thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness ;thrust upon em."

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved."

Keller, Helen on character
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."

Adams, Franklin P. on health
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning."

Riley, Pat on motivation
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"Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they feel cherished."

Gray, John on women
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"We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life."

Marcinko, Richard on practice   

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Fitzgerald, Ella on failure
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"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."

Kennedy, John F. on expectation
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"You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said."

Rayburn, Sam on truth   

"Every day you waste is one you can never make up."

Allen, George on waste
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"Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up."

Jackson, Jesse on pride
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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous'' on adversity
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