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"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."	William Jennings Bryan
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation."	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."	Eric Butterworth
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."	Dale Carnegie
"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths."	Alexis Carrel
"If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."	Maurice Chevalier
"Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government."	Madame Chiang
"Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations."	I Ching
"When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed."	I Ching
"He who possesses the source of Enthusiasm Will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather friends around you As a hair clasp gathers the hair."	I Ching
"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."	Confucius
"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones."	Stephen R. Covey
"Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research."	Marie Curie
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order."	Idi Amin Dada
"It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings."	Bronwyn Davies
"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so."	General Charles De Gaulle
"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."	Mack R. Douglas
"Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something."	Thomas Alva Edison
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Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Alfred Kissinger
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jan Ashford	Jesse Louis Jackson
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John Kenneth Galbraith	Josh Billings	J(ean) Paul Getty
J. Arthur Lewis	Kahlil Gibran	Lao-Tzu
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Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mack R. Douglas	Madame Chiang
Marie Curie	Maurice Chevalier	Menander
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Napolean Hill	Og Mandino	Oswald Mosley
Pearl Bailey	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peter Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Rensis Likert
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Montgomery
Russell Greene	R. D. Laing	Saint Augustine
Sir Walter Besant	Sophia Loren	Srully D. Blotnick
Stephen R. Covey	Sydney J. Harris	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Arnold Bennett	Ursula K. LeGuin
Victor Hugo	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Warren G. Bennis
William James	William Jennings Bryan	William Adams
William E. Holler	William John Bennett	Woody Allen
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