"Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife."
Author: Denis Waitley, Seeds of Greatness
"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."
Author: Earl of Chesterfield
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
Author: George Bernard Shaw
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
Author: Henry Ford
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."
Author: Henry Ford
"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward."
Author: Henry Ford
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
Author: Henry Ford
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
Author: John R. Wooden
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
"We must become the change we want to see in the world."
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
"If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all."
Author: Michelangelo
"I do not seek, I find."
Author: Pablo Picasso
"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."
Author: Peter Ferdinand Drucker
"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."
Author: Richard Hofstadter
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."
Author: Robert Francis Kennedy
"The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt."
Author: Rollo May
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Author: Sun Tzu
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
Author: Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"Never, never, never give up."
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
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