"If you want to conquer fear,
don't sit at home and think about it. 

 Go out and get busy."

-Dale Carnegie

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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard
than anybody expects of you.  Never excuse yourself."

-Henry Ward Beecher

 

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

-Goethe

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"Pray as though everything depended on God. 

 Work as though everything depended on you."

-St. Augustine

 

 

"Do you want to know who you are?  Act! 

 Action will delineate and define you."

-Thomas Jefferson

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"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

-William James

 

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

-Louisa May Alcott

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
-Plato  

 
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“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him,

 and to let him know that you trust him.”

-Booker T. Washington

 

 

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,

but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

-Pope John XXIII

 

 

 

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities

brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

-Charles Swindoll

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“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”

-Peter F. Drucker

 

 

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

 

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“Consider the postage stamp:

 its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.”

-Josh Billings