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    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    tags: charles-bayard-mitchell
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    Jim Henson
    “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
    ― Jim Henson
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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  • #11
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: happiness, inspirational
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    Albert Einstein
    “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: adulthood, success, value
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    Mark Twain
    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, success
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: bravery, decisiveness, failure, inaction, success, timidity
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: ability, action, gratitude, happiness, inspirational, life, motivational, moving-forward, problems, success
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: dream, dreams, dreams-quotes, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, mind, mind-quotes, motivation, motivational, obstacle, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, success, success-quotes
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    Tim Fargo
    “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: achieve, achievement, achieving, achieving-success, champ, champion, chance, effort, efforts, opportunities, opportunity, possibilities, possibility, potential, risk, succeed, success, successful, taking-risks, try, trying, victor, victory, win, winner, winning, work, work-ethic
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  • #20
    Joe Namath
    “If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?”
    ― Joe Namath
    tags: competition, effort, success
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  • #21
    Neil Gaiman
    “Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: achievements, failure, luck, near-hits, near-misses, nearly, success
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    Tim Fargo
    “Opportunity doesn't make appointments, you have to be ready when it arrives.”
    ― Tim Fargo
    tags: achieve, achievement, achievements, action, advance, champion, championship, competition, journey, opportunity, prepare, preparedness, ready, success, successful, successful-people, victory, win, winner, winning
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  • #23
    Thomas A. Edison
    “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: laziness, opportunity, work
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    Sun Tzu
    “Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: opportunity, people, predictability, surprise
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    Steve Maraboli
    “The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: change, happiness, inspirational, personal-responsibility, potential, power, responsibility, success, victim
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  • #26
    Robert Frost
    “Freedom lies in being bold.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: boldness, courage, freedom
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  • #27
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: courage, empowerment, self-determination, women
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    “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
    ― Jim Valvano
    tags: believe, believe-in-yourself, believed, dad, faith, father, gift, love, parenting
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  • #29
    Voltaire
    “Perfect is the enemy of good.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-to-jim-collins, work-ethic
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  • #30
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: achievement, adversity, easy, effort, envy, lives
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