| Life is something like this trumpet. If you don’t put anything in it, you don’t get anything out - – W. C. Handy, blues musician
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| The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen - Lee Iacocca, automobile executive
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| I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than 500 who can’t see the point - Patrick Dixon, futurist
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| Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures - Bernard Baruch, investor
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| If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too - W. Somerset Maugham, writer
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| The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you’re wasting. It’s up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you - Derek Jeter, baseball player
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| We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond all senses - Helen Keller, lecturer, author
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| When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes - Thomas Edison, inventor
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| Don’t be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It’s the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race - Andrew Carnegie, industrialist
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| He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist - St. Francis, religious leader
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| The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
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| I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse - Florence Nightingale, nurse
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| If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business - Ray Kroc, McDonald’s founder
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| Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you - Arnold Palmer, golfer
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| It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him - John Steinbeck, author
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