Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.
H. JACKSON BROWN JR.When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
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I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
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Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
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Don’t flaunt your success, but don’t apologize for it either.
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If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.
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Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
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Never underestimate your power to change yourself.
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Become someone’s hero.
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When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
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Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
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A friend is someone who knows you and loves you for what you were and who you are, and who also shares your hopes and dreams for who you can become.
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