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“Dealing with people is a lot like digging for gold: When you go digging for an ounce of gold you have to move tons of dirt before you get to an ounce of gold, but when you go digging, you don’t go looking for the dirt, you go looking for the gold.”
Whenever we do something positive in life, even if no one is watching, we rise a little bit in our own eyes. Whenever we do something negative like lying, cheating, stealing, even if no one is watching, we fall down a little bit in our own eyes—that’s the magic of self-esteem.
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Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. – St. Francis of Assisi
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
It’s a lot easier to improve one per cent in hundred different areas than to improve hundred per cent in any one area. That is the winning edge!
Success is not measured by our position in life but by the obstacles we overcame to get there.
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Success in life is not determined by how we are doing compared with others, but by how we are doing compared with what we are capable of doing.
DON’T QUIT When things go wrong, As they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit—Rest if you must, but don’t you quit. Life is queer with its twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, And many a failure turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out. Don’t give up though the pace seems slow—You may succeed with another blow. Success is failure turned inside out—The silver tint of the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell
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By not opposing something we know is wrong, we are actually supporting it.
LUCK He worked by day And toiled by night. He gave up play And some delight. Dry books he read, New things to learn. And forged ahead, Success to earn. He plodded on with Faith and pluck; And when he won, Men called it luck. – Anonymous
