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“There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that “Old Man Failure” finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.”
Napoleon Hill

“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of security against people was to hide his wounds from them”
Leo Tolstoy

“To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.”
Barack Obama

“If what others say doesn’t match what God has put in your heart, let it go in one ear and out the other.”
Joel Osteen

“Without books, I would certainly die.”
Thomas Jefferson

“The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].”
Billy Graham

“POINT TO PONDER: I’m as close to God as I choose to be.”
Rick Warren

“When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you. A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“As smart as he was, though, I suspect even FDR didn’t realize that once you created a bureaucracy, it took on a life of its own. It was almost impossible to close down a bureaucracy once it had been created.”
Ronald Reagan

“An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.”
John C. Maxwell

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
Mother Teresa

“The simplest way to silence your critics as a leader is to do what they claim you can’t do. However, be careful they don’t set you up to take fatal risks to please their criticisms.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“Watch the one ahead of you, and you’ll learn why he is ahead. Then emulate him.”
Napoleon Hill

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
Joyce Meyer

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
Frank Herbert

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