| ABILITY |
| Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not. |
Joe Batten |
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| Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
John Wooden |
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| The maturing of any complex talent requires a happy combination of motivation, character, and opportunity. Most talent remains undeveloped. |
John Gardner |
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| To build on a person’s strengths, that is, to enable him to do what he can do, will make him effective … to try to build on his weaknesses will be … frustrating and stultifying. |
Peter Drucker |
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| ACHIEVEMENT |
| Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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| Some people dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. |
Anonymous |
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| Success and achievement are more important than one’s financial statement. Life’s measurement is not only quantitative but qualitative. |
Bill Byrne |
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| Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together |
Vincent van Gogh |
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| ACTION |
| There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less that the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. |
John F. Kennedy |
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| To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. |
Napoleon Hill |
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| You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions. |
Robert Anthony |
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| Things do not happen; things are made to happen. |
John F. Kennedy |
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| Ingenuity, plus coverage, plus work, equals miracles. |
Bob Richards |
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| Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. |
Jesse Jackson |
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| ADVERSITY |
| Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. |
Mary Tyler Moore |
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| Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance! |
Fritz Reiner |
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| You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| ADVICE |
| A person is silly who will not take anyone’s advice, but a person is ignorant who takes everyone’s advice. |
Anonymous |
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| The trouble with advice is that you can’t tell if its good or bad until you have taken it. |
Frank Tyler |
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| Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but want a different one. |
Ivern Bell |
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| AGE |
| In youth we learn; in age we understand. |
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach |
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| Old age is like everything else. To make success of it, you’ve got to start young. |
Fred Astaire |
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| A person doesn’t become old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. |
John R. Noe |
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| ATITUDE |
| Attitudes are caught not taught. |
Elwood N. Chapman |
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| It may not be your fault for being down, but it’s got to be your fault for not getting up. |
Steve Davis |
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| You want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. |
William Glasser |
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| A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. |
Hugh Downs |
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