Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. — Calvin Coolidge

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Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming. — Alice Walker

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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. _ Leo Buscaglia

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Unknown

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‎The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ― Helen Keller

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The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.- Ashton Kutcher

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