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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
American Poet and Essayist

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"Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal."

- Harold E. Stassen (1907 - 2001)
25th Governor of Minnesota

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"No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice."

- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."

- Norman Vincent Peale
(1898-1993) American Methodist Minister

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"Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible."

- Sir Douglas Bader (1910 - 1982)
British Aviator

- Sir Douglas Bader was a British fighter pilot who lost both legs in a flying accident, but still fought in World War Two. He was knighted for his work with the disabled, and the quote above is from his talk to a 14-year-old boy who had lost a leg in a car accident.

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"I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence."

- Walter Annenberg, Publisher and philanthropist (1908 - 2002 )

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"It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are."

- James Mackintosh (1765 - 1832)
Scottish Statesman, Historian

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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
26th President of the United States

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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
German writer and statesman

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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
(1869-1948) Indian Nationalist

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