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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
"Action is the foundational key to all success."
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition."
"Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation."
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
"Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?"
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
"All things are difficult before they are easy."
"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."