A History of Abraham Lincoln
1831: Failed Business
1832: Defeated for legislature
1834: Failed in business again
1835: Sweetheart died
1836: Nervous breakdown
1838: Defeated in election
1841: Second nervous breakdown
1843: Defeated for Congress
1846: Defeated for Congress
1848: Defeated for Congress
1855: Defeated for Senate
1856: Defeated for Vice President
1858: Defeated for Senate
1860: Elected President

Agatha Christie
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Albert Einstein
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.

* There is a joke among authors that this is because you will have to READ it 100 times in the proofreading and editing process!

Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of wisdom.

Confucius
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Frida Kahlo
You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with,

and then I can turn the world upside down.

George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can…begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.

Joseph Campbell
You are the hero of your own story.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Mahatma Gandhi
The future depends on what you do today.

Be the change you would see in the world.

Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Pablo Picasso
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Everything you can imagine is real.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Robert Anton Wilson
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Salvador Dali
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Seneca
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Vincent van Gogh
Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

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You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.
Amit Ray

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Love your enemies for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin

If you don’t see the book you want on the shelf, write it.
Beverly Cleary

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Persistence. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Calvin Coolidge

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it…that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods near before attempted.
Francis Bacon

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!
Horace

Massive goals don’t require massive action. They require consistent action.
J. Mike Fields

Impossible is for the unwilling.
John Keats

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad

Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.
Katherine Wolf

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carrol

You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person’. It makes you human.
Lori Deschne

While you can't know how things will turn out, what you can know is that doing something meaningful and fun will in itself be worth the effort.
Malcolm Gladwell

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can. Likewise, none can destroy a person but his own mindset can.
Ratan Tata

Failure inspires winners. Failure defeats losers.
Robert Kiyosaki

You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
Robin Williams

You don’t have to be the best, getting better is what matters.
Roger Lee

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen B. Leacock

The wheel turns, the struggle continues, and the command is always the same. Be true. Stand.
Stephen King

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
Theodore Roethke

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot

When you have exhausted all possibilities; remember this; you haven’t.

Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius…
I have failed my way to success

Many of life’s failures are (those) who did not know how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Vice Lombardi

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

To improve is to change. To perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill

There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Zayn Malik

How you see your future is much more important than what has happened in the past.
Zig Ziglar

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