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“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― John Lennon

“Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“We become what we repeatedly do.”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.”
― Sean Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

“The beginning is the most important part of any work.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
― Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“Things like taking a few dollars out of a paycheck, putting it into savings, and leaving it there. Or doing a few minutes of exercise every day—and not skipping it. Or reading ten pages of an inspiring, educational, life-changing book every day. Or taking a moment to tell someone how much you appreciate them, and doing that consistently, every day, for months and years. Little things that seem insignificant in the doing, yet when compounded over time yield very big results. You could call these “little virtues” or “success habits.” I call them simple daily disciplines. Simple productive actions, repeated consistently over time. That, in a nutshell, is the slight edge.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“anything worth having is worth paying that price for.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“Remember: success does not lead to happiness—it’s the other way around.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.”
― August Wilson

“Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.”
― August Wilson

“In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
― August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean

“When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.”
― August Wilson, Fences

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy -”
― August Wilson, Fences

“Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me. Don't you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom.”
― August Wilson, Fences

“Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.”
― August Wilson, Fences

“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
― Maya Angelou

“Before you can have, you must do; but before you can do, you must first become.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“My daily choices create my perfect health.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“More than any other single factor, you are where you are today because of the choices you have made. To achieve things you have never achieved before, you must take action today that you’ve never taken before.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Great leaders possess tremendous long-term clarity about what they’re trying to accomplish both personally and in their careers. And it’s this long-term perspective that builds character, wisdom, and self-discipline. Long-term thinking is the hallmark of high-performance living, yet it’s often neglected in favor of the treadmill of urgent activities of the moment.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“You can’t make more time, only better choices.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Newberry, Tommy, Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook