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“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden
“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their
desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell
“Strive for progress, not perfection.” – Unknown
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just
one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison
“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with
satisfaction.” – George Lorimer
Believing in yourself
1. Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
4. Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John
Wooden
10. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. – Thomas
Jefferson
11. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. –
Robert Collier
12. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better. – Jim Rohn
13. I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I
had the chance.
14. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get
things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes. – John Maxwell
Overcoming procrastination
15. The secret to getting ahead is getting started.
16. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Hard work
18. There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills
22. The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra.”
23. You don’t always get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
24. It’s not about how bad you want it. It’s about how hard you’re willing to
work for it.
25. The only place where success comes before work is in the
dictionary. – Vidal Sassoon
26. There are no traffic jams on the extra mile. – Zig Ziglar
27. If people only knew how hard I’ve worked to gain my mastery, it
wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. – Michelangelo
29. Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson,
and Albert Einstein. – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Perseverance
30. Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what
makes life meaningful. – Joshua J. Marine
31. Life has two rules: 1) Never quit. 2) Always remember Rule #1.
32. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed. – Michael Jordan
33. I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs, but how high
he bounces when he hits the bottom. – George S. Patton
35. Don’t let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your
heart.
37. You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. –
Ed Cole
39. The pain you feel today is the strength you will feel tomorrow. For
every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.
40. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it.