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  Great Leaders Create More Leaders   “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.” ― Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection   “To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.” ― HEGEL   “If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.” ― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider   “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” ― Dale Carnegie   “Fortune sides with him who dares.” ― Virgil   “Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your...

  Keep Your Friends for Friendship   “Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent” ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power   “Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away!” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!   “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!” ― Dr. Suess   “I've had great success being a total idiot. ” ― Jerry Lewis   “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” ― Joyce Brothers   “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” ― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography   “The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to ...

  Our Greatest Fear   “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.” ― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful   “Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.” ― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God   “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free   “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” ― Bill Cosby   “The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” ― Thomas A. Edison   “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” ― George Bernard Shaw   “Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.” ― Zig Z...

  I Don't Care   “Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.” ― Winston S. Churchill   “At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free   “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” ― Tony DeLiso, Legacy: The Power Within: The Power Within   “When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity... you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others” ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power   “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” ― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice   “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War   “I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, sho...

  Don't Aim at Success “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning   “The way to get started is to quit t...