- One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.” – Les Brown
- “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
- “Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.” – Joseph Addison
- “Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.”– William A. Ward
- “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese
- “A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
- “Thinking well to be wise: Planning well, wiser: doing well, wisest and best of all.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”– James Penney
- “Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow, what you can do today.”– Lord Chesterfield
- “Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.” – Jules Renard
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