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You need to ignore what everyone else is doing and achieving. Your life is about breaking your own limits and outgrowing yourself to live your best life. You are not in competition with anyone else. Plan to outdo your past, not other people.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Make a list of the people you admire and what makes them amazing. Then go out and become those things yourself.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

Every human being is a brand—the way you socialize, who you know, what you say.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you fail by default.