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“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

“To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.”
― T.D. Jakes, Making Great Decisions Reflections

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
― Bette Midler

“Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.”
― T.D. Jakes, Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

“In most cases, those who want power probably shouldn't have it, those who enjoy it probably do so for the wrong reasons, and those who want most to hold on to it don't understand that it's only temporary.”
― John C. Maxwell, Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others

“I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.”
― Zig Ziglar

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
― W.P. Kinsella

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ”
― Coco Chanel

“The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy of Jew is not Arab, the enemy of youth is not the old, the enemy of hip is not redneck, the enemy of Chicano is not gringo and the enemy of women is not men. We all have the same enemy. The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized.”
― Tom Robbins

“Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.”
― John C Maxwell

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
― John C. Maxwell

“If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”
― John Maxwell

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
― Tony Robbins

“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Love is the absence of judgment.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“When someone tells me "no," it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.”
― Karen E. Quinones Miller

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“The road to success is always under construction”
― Lily Tomlin

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
― Paulo Coelho, Maktub

“There were people who went to sleep last night,
poor and rich and white and black,
but they will never wake again.

And those dead folks would give anything at all
for just five minutes of this weather
or ten minutes of plowing.

So you watch yourself about complaining.

What you're supposed to do
when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it,
change the way you think about it.”
― Maya Angelou