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"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure."
Source: Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
"The most important thing is your self-respect. It doesn't matter what people think about you, but what you think about yourself."
Source: Robert H. Abplanalp
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
Source: John Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
Source -- William Saroyan, Writer
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Source: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
"A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself."
Source: George Bernard Shaw, Writer and Critic
"Imagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
Source: -- Paul McCartney, musician
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Source: Albert Einstein
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Source: Aristotle
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence."
Source: Richard DeVos, Amway Co-founder
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
Source: Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic"
Source: Oscar Wilde
"Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable"
Source: Oscar Wilde
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln
"My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen."
Source: Susan Powter, Author
"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."
Source: Henry Kaiser, industrialist
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence."
Source: Richard DeVos, Amway Co-founder
"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."
Source: Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host
"There are only four ways to create value (in a digital economy): information, entertainment, convenience, and savings."
Source: Jay Walker, Priceline founder
"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."
Source: Napoleon Hill, author
"Everybody talks bout wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect."
Source: Rob Reiner, director
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; and the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
Source: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Leading Jewish theologian of the 20th century
"A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures."
Source:-- John Kennedy, 35th U.S. President
"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's. And guess what they might have planned for you? Not much."
Source: Jim Rohn, Motivational Speaker
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success."
Source: Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
Source: John Wooden, basketball coach
"To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
Source: -- Tony Dorsett, American Football Player
"We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity."
Source: Walter E. Cole, Korean War Hero
