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1. “Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.”- Baltasar Gracian.
2. “Pick a career that you enjoy and give you a sense of accomplishment. It’s not how many dollars you put in your jeans. The money can disappear quickly, but the sense of accomplishment doesn’t. You go to bed with it at night and you sleep like a baby.”-Gordon.
3. “It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”-Morarji Desai.
4. “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 in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”-Helen Hayes.
5. “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year; a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.”-Gabriel Heatter.
6. “The person who achieves must generally be concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.”-Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.
7. “The truth of the matter is that there’s nothing you can’t accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you’re absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You’re willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what’s working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”-Anthony Robbins.
8. “One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.”-Walter Scott.
9. “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”~Henri Louis Bergson
10. “Like beautiful flowers, full of colours but without scent, are the well-spoken words of a man who does not act accordingly.”-Buddha.
11. “The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”-Thomas Henry Huxley.
12. "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."-Theodore Roosevelt.
13. “My actions are my only true belongings.  I cannot escape the consequences of my actions.  My actions are the ground upon which I stand.”  ~Thich Nhat Hanh
14. “The man who is spiritually-minded and not attached to the fruit of his actions attains the tranquility; whilst he who is attached through desire to the fruit of action is bound by it.”-Gita.
15. "Great actions speak great minds."-John Fletcher.
16. "Man is what his actions make him. He rises by good actions, and falls by evil ones."-M K Gandhi.
17. “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”-Seneca.
18. “One of the largest tributaries of the river of greatness is always the stream of adversity.”-Cavett Robert.
19. “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”-Victor Hugo.
20. “Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”-Seneca.
21. "There is no education like adversity."-Benjamin Disraeli.
22. “Never give advice unless asked for.”-German Proverb.
23. "It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal."-Oscar Wilde.
24. “The best advice is this:  Don't take advice and don't give advice.”-Author Unknown.
25. “Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”-Cicero
26. “Don’t be afraid of going slowly, be afraid of standing still.”-A Japanese Proverb.
27. “Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”-Henry Van Dyke.
28. "About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."-Anonymous.
29. "Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."-Dan Ingrams.
30. “The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”- Michelangelo.
31. "Aim for the stars and you might reach the treetop."-Abraham Lincoln.
32. "The strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone."-Henrik Ibsen.
33. “They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.”-Sir Philip Sidney.
34. “Only a crowd can make you feel so alone.”-Mick Jagger.
35. "He travels the fastest who travels alone."-Kipling.
36. "Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied."-Niccolo Machiavelli.
37. “Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”- Ben Franklin.
38. “Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.”-Alfred A. Mountapert.
39. “Anger begins with folly and ends in repentance.”-Henry George Bohn.
40. “The best answer to anger is silence.”-M K Gandhi.
41. “To be anger is to avenge the faults of others on you.”-Pope.
42. “Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.”-George Savile.
43. "When angry count to ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."-Thomas Jefferson.
44. "Anger is a brief madness."-Horace.
45. “He who angers you conquers you.”-Elizabeth Kenny.
46. “Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.”-Robert G. Ingersoll
47. “When you are overwhelmed with happiness, don’t make any promise. When you are overcome with anger, don’t answer any letters.”-Proverb.
48. "It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people does not want apologies, and the wrong sort takes a mean advantage of them."-P G Wodehouse
49. "Appearances often are deceptive."-Aesop.
50. “Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”-Lee Iacocca
51. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”-Leonardo Da Vinci
52. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”- Robin S. Sharma.
53. "People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."-Gilbert Chatham
54. “Use soft words and hard arguments.”-English Proverb.
55. "Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."-Louis Brandies.
56.  “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”-Amy Lowell.
57. "An artiste is always striving to get better. The minute he thinks he has become perfect, it is his death. Isn't all of life about a search? The deeper you go, the more you keep drowning. I feel I am still standing on the shore."-Naushad.
58. “I am an artist at living- my work of art is my life”- Suzuki.
59. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."-Pablo Picasso.
60. “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”-Orville Wright.
61. “Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy:  the mad daughter of a wise mother.”-Voltaire
62. "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"-Winston Churchill.
63. "Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude."-Zig Ziglar.
64. "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."-Lee Iacocca.
65.  “Your attitude determines your altitude”- John Maxwell.
66.   “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”- Hugh Downs, Journalist and TV host.
67.  “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”-Patricia Neal.
68. “Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”-William James.
69.  “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”-Oprah Winfrey.
70. “There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.”-W Clement Stone.
71. “If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.”-Yugoslav Proverb.
72. "All authority belongs to the people."-Jefferson
73. "No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine."-A J Ayer.
74. "Awake, arise and stop not till the goal is achieved."-Swami Vivekananda.

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