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"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." -- Charles "Tremendous" Jones "Big results require big ambitions." -- Heraclitus "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" -- Anne Frank "Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." -- Pope John XXIII "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results." -- Bennet Cerf "Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow." -- Robert Louis Stevenson "If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need have you for tomorrow?" -- Rabbi Nahman of Breslov "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince Lombardi "When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" -- Sydney Harris "Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline, too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with, something about yourself, your career, your spouse." -- Dale Dauten "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." -- Peter Marshall "Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." -- Jean de la Fontaine "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." -- Zig Ziglar "The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible." -- Richard M. DeVos "Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation." -- Dalai Lama "There is one social skill that can serve as your strongest asset in a job interview. In private life, it makes people fall in love with you and seek you for purposes ranging from honored dinner guest to spouse; and in business it helps more than any other single qualification, with the possible exception of being the owner's eldest child. That is enthusiasm. A look of vitality and happiness, an interest in the world and an eagerness to participate in life, is what is called charm in the social milieu; but in the working world is called competence." -- Judith Martin “Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.” --  Mary Lou Retton "Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark." -- Henri Frederic Amiel "The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision." -- Robyn Davidson "Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way." -- Eileen Caddy "Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised." -- Christian Nestell Bovee "If there is no struggle there is no progress." -- Fredrick Douglas