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  • Achieving
    • “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” ― Abraham Lincoln
    • “Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?” he said. I could barely muster a “yeah.” That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they’ve given up on you.” ― Randy Pausch
    • “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” ― Pablo Picasso
    • “The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.” ― Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” ― Lao Tzu
    • “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.” ― Anonymous
    • “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” ― Margaret Thatcher
    • “I’m not telling you it’s going to be easy – I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” ― Arthur Williams
    • “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.”  — Helen Keller
    • “There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.” ― Mary Kay Ash
    • “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ― Dale Carnegie
    • “When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp.” ― Donald O. Clifton
    • “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ― Nelson Mandela
    • “If you can take it, you can make it.” ― film Unbroken
    • “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” ― C.G Jung
    • “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”  ― Mark Twain
    • “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” ― Babe Ruth
    • “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ― Anatole France
    • “Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.” ― Baltasar Gracian
    • “The clearer the vision, the fewer the options, the easier the decision.” — Andy Stanley
    • “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
    • “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas Edison
    • “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ― Muhammad Ali
    • “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it—then I can achieve it.” — Muhammad Ali
  • Action
    • “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ― John F. Kennedy
  • Adversity
    • “When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ― Peter Marshall
    • “Pressure makes diamonds.” ― General George S. Patton
    • “Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.” ― Nelson Mandela
    • “The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.” ― Woodrow Wilson
    • “The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” ― Sigmund Freud
    • “This for anybody going through tough times. Believe me, been there, done that. But everyday above ground is a great day, remember that!” ― Pitbull
    • “Sweet are the uses of adversity,
      Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
      Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
      And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
      Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
      Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.” ― William Shakespeare
  • Boldness
    • “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost
    • “Fortune favours the bold.” ― Virgil
    • “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.” ― Mark Twain
    • “Always do what you are afraid to do.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • “Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.” ― Mary Kay Ash
    • “It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” ― Grace Hopper
    • “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “Freedom lies in being bold.” ― Robert Frost
    • “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” ― Tacitus
    • “The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don’t live at all.” ― Ashley L
    • “A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.” ― Usain Bolt
    • “Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.” — Mark Twain
    • “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ― T.S Eliot
  • Character
    • “There are no great men, there are only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.” ― Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (Bull)
  • Communication
    • “Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.” ― Benjamin Franklin
    • “Persuasion is a two-edged sword: reason and emotion. Plunge it deep.” ― Professor Lew Sarett, Sr. (Former U.S. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld’s uncle)
    • “Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.” ― Baltasar Gracian
    • “Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.” ― John C. Maxwell
    • “What is always speaking silently is the body.” ― Norman Brown
    • “Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.” ― Marilyn Ferguson
  • Compassion
    • “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
  • Courage
    • “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
    • “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” ― Muhammad Ali
    • “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” ― T. S. Eliot
    • “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne
    • “Courage is grace under pressure.”  ― Ernest Hemingway
    • “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong
    • “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” — Donald Trump
    • “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” — Picabo Street
  • Criticism
    • “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.” ― Earl Nightingale
    • “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
    • “Lions don’t care about the opinions of gazelles.” ― Mike Alafaci
    • “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    • “People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.” ― Sachin Tendulkar
    • “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.” ― Albert Einstein
  • Development
    • “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ― Henry Ford
    •  “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein
    • “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” ― Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” ― Ken Blanchard
    • “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Ghandi
    • “There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ― Aldous Huxley
    • “Sharpen the Saw means preserving and enhancing the greatest asset you have – you. It means having a balanced program for self-renewal in the four areas of your life: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual.” ― Stephen R. Covey
    • “Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.”  ― Albert Einstein
    • “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” ― Michael John Bobak
    • “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ― Jim Rohn
    • “In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.” ― Swami Vivekananda
    • “As long as a person doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, he isn’t going to grow.” ― John C. Maxwell
    • “There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway
    • “The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.” ― Jim Rohn
    • “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” ― John F. Kennedy
    • “It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.” ― Garry Marshall
  • Failure
    •  “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston Churchill
    • “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
    • “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” ― Henry Ford
    • “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ―  Maya Angelou
  • Fear
    • “You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” ― Dale Carnegie
    • “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.” ― Aristotle
    • “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ― Nelson Mandela
  • Friendship
    • “I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching – they are your family.” ― Jim Butcher
    • “Man’s best support is a very dear friend.” ― Cicero
  • Happiness
    • “The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.” ― Dan Millman
    • “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
  • Health, Fitness and Wellness
    • “Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body’s wisdom.” ― Dan Millman
    • “If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner.” ― Deepak Chopra
    • “There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.” ― Elizabeth A. Behnke
    • “Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.” ― Shakti Gawain
    • “Good pain pushes out bad pain. You’re in control of which pain you experience.” ― Chris Kyle
  • Hope
    • “Your dreams don’t care if you get frustrated. Your dreams don’t care if there’s going to be dark days. Your dreams know they are worth it and it’s time for you to believe in them again and start working towards them at full capacity.” ― Brendon Burchard
    • “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie
  • Humour
    • “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” ― Albert Einstein
    • “I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.” ― Groucho Marx
    • “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well I have others.” ― Groucho Marx
    • “God gave men a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.” ― Robin Williams
    • “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” ― Albert Einstein
    • “The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.” ― Jean Giraudoux
    • “I could be a morning person… if morning started at noon!” ― Anonymous
  • Integrity and Character
    • “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” ― Potter Stewart
    • “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” ― Mark Twain
    • “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” ― Frederick Douglass
    • “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • “Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.” ― Pythagoras
    • “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ― Thomas Jefferson
  • Leadership
    • “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” ― Jim Rohn
    • “There is little success where there is little laughter.” ― Andrew Carnegie
    • “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    • “A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.” ― Henrik Ibsen
    • “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.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
    • ‘It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position.” ― Stanley Huffty
    • “Leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.” ― John C. Maxwell
    • “The buck stops here!” ― Harry S. Truman
    • “Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” ― Orrin Woodward
    • “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” ― Warren Bennis
  • Life
    • “Life is always worth living, how heavy your heart may be. There is always another horizon, beyond the one you see!”  ― Irish saying passed to me by my father, Alan Green
    • “Dance like nobody’s watching; love like you’ve never been hurt; sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― Authorship Uncertain
    • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all!” ― Helen Keller
    • “Sometimes, little things make a big difference…” ― Nino Varsimashvili
    • “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ― Winston Churchill
    • “Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” ― James Allen
    • “What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” ― Albert Pikel
    • “Don’t sweat the small stuff.” ― Richard Carlson
    • “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons / The Shawshank Redemption
    • “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
    • “No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business.” ― Paul Tsongas
    • “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
    • “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
    • “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ― Abraham Lincoln
    • “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ― Mae West
    • “Don’t be ashamed of your story. It just might inspire someone.” — Toby Mac
    • “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    • “One ship drives east, and another west. With the self-same winds that blow: ‘Tis the set of the sails and not the gales, which decides the way we go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, as they voyage along through life; ‘Tis the will of the soul that decides its goal, and not the calm or the strife.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    • “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ― John F. Kennedy
    • “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” ― misattributed to Charles Darwin
    • “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” ― Pablo Picasso
    • “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” ― Epictetus
    • “If you know the why, you can live any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    • “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” ― Bruce Lee
  • Management
    • “I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It’s the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. ” ― Lee Iacocca
    • “One bad general is worth two good ones.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    • “Keep it simple, stupid.” ― KISS principle coined by the US Navy in 1960
    • “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” ― Peter F. Drucker
  • Motivation
    • “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” ― Jim Rohn
  • Patience
    • “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy
  • Persistence
    • “Dreams are lost when you allow temporary missteps to lead you to despair. You must not let a few mistakes become a way of life. Begin again. Your persistence will eventually lead you to your true path.” — Dodinsky
    • “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” — Stephen Hawking
    • “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas A. Edison
  • Planning
    • “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Positiveness
    • “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” ― Confucius
    • “Onwards and upwards.” ― a favourite idiom of my mentor, Inspector Dave Stevenson
    • “When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.” ― Honore de Balzac
    • “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t–you’re right.” ― Henry Ford
    • “There is good in everything, if only we look for it.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Resilience
    • “I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” ― General George S. Patton
    • “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ― Winston Churchill
    • “But I’m a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph.” ― Kanye West
    • “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” ― Sun Tzu
    • “Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ― Nelson Mandela
  • Risk
    • “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ― Wayne Gretzky
  • Serendipity
    • “It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good.” ― passed to me by father, Alan Green
    • “Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.” ― John Wooden
    • “He who laughs last laughs loudest.” ― passed to me by brother, Peter Green
    • “Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” ― Maurice Setter
    • “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ― Thomas Alva Edison
  • Success
    • “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston Churchill
    • “The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.” ― Denis Waitley
    • “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” ― Woody Allen
    • “Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.” ― Vince Lombardi
    • “One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” ― Benjamin Disraeli
    • “Champions don’t become champions in the ring – they are merely recognized there. If you want to see where someone developed into a champion, look at his daily routine.” ― John C. Maxwell
    • “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” ― Brian Tracy
    • “Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day-in, day-out. Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. ” ― Dr Angela Lee Duckworth
  • Support
    • “Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” ― Norman B. Rice
  • Trust
    • “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” ― Frank Crane
    • “Trust is like the air we breathe–when it’s present, nobody really notices; when it’s absent, everybody notices.”  ― Warren Buffett
  • Work
    • “Work smarter not harder” ― Authorship Uncertain

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