Often attributed to Mother Teresa, actual author unknown
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!"
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Vince Lombardi
"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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Elizabeth II
"It's so much easier to yell and pull down and criticize, then to restrain, and build, and think right- isn't it."
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E. Merrill Root
"Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat."
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Dave Thomas
"We tend to make courage too dramatic.
Courage is often doing something simple, unpleasant, or boring again and again until we get it down pat. People who are physically challenged and who have the determination to get around their handicaps are great examples because their courage makes them test their limits every day."
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James C. Collins
"Those who turn good (organizations) into great (organizations) are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake."
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Helen Hayes
"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
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Kenneth Allsop
"In work, the greatest satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know."
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Pascal Bruckner
"Don't allow yourself to be intimidated! There is more than one road to joy.
- Writing in "The Paradox of Love""
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Mary Oliver
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
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