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"Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive."- Scott Adams

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"Working hard overcomes a who lot of other obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people."- Marsha Evans

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"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."- Earl Nightingale

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"The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it."- Peggy Fleming

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"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."- Joseph Cossman

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"The most important thing about having goals is having one."- Geoffrey F. Abert

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"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."- Saint Francis

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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact."- James Truslow Adams

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"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."- Alan Alda

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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."- Walter Anderson

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"Courage consists of the power of self-recovery."- Julie Arabi

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"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."- Joseph Addison

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"Goodness is easier to recognize than to define."- Wystan Hugh Auden

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"Spend more time asking why not. There are far to many folks saying things can't be done. The problem is that they're often left behind by the ones making things happen! Don't fall into this trap."- Josh Hinds

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"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."- Sir James Matthew Barrie

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