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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."
— Mahandas Gandhi

"We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. "
— Speakers Library

"The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go."
— John Morgan and Ewing Webb

"'We sure shook that bridge,' the mouse said to the elephant after they had crossed the bridge. "
— Anonymous

"When evil men plot, good men must plan."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
— Robert F. Kennedy

"Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. "
— Voltaire

"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide."
— Salvador De Madariaga

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well. "
— Kenneth Hildebrand

"We have petitioned and our petitions have been disregarded, we have entreated and our entreaties have been scorned. We beg no more, we petition no longer, we now defy. "
— William Jennings Bryan

"What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. "
— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"Aim for success not perfection. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person."
— Dr. David Burns

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. "
— Jack and Garry Kinder

"Thus to be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great."
— G. W. F. Hegel

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."
— Orison Swett Marden

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. "
— Mary Pickford

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts. "
— George F. Tiltonood

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities- that is values, goals, and high leverage activities- organize around them."
— Stephen Covey

"When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through."
— F. W. Nichol

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."
— Carl Sandburg

"What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
— Napoleon Hill

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
— Albert Einstein

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
— Erma Bombeck

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
— Abraham H. Maslow

"A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing."
— Charles M. Schwab

"I dream my painting and then paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."
— Jonathan Swift

"It’s always fun to do the impossible. "
— Walt Disney

"Let us become the change we seek in this world. "
— Mohandas Gandhi

"All glory comes from daring to begin. "
— William Shakespeare

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. "
— Chinese Proverb

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. "
— Lee Iacocca

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. "
— Jack London

"If you don’t set goals for yourself, you are doomed to work to achieve the goals of someone else."
— Brian Tracy

"Control your destiny or somebody else will."
— Jack Welch

"You miss a 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."
— Wayne Gretzky

"The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. "
— Arnold Palmer

"Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
— William Faulkner

"I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have."
— Abraham Lincoln

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."
— Mark Twain

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
— Washington Irving

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly know how far one can go."
— T.S. Elliot

"Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood."
— Niccolo Machiavelli

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."
— Wayne Dyer

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative."
— Charles Mingus

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
— Henry Ford

"You must have courage to bet on your ideals, to take calculated risk, and act.. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness."
— Maxwell Maltz

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
— Bob Dylan

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning 
 from failure."
— Colin Powell