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• 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 Quotes

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• Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  ~ Napoleon Hill Quotes

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• I've always believed in magic. When I wasn't doing anything in this town, I'd go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch out my arms, and say, "Everybody wants to work with me. I'm a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers." I'd just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I'd drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, "Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet." It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.

  ~ Jim Carrey Quotes from Interview in "Movieline," July 1994

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• No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

  ~ William E. Gladstone Quotes

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• Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

  ~ Jimmy Johnson Quotes

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• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

  ~ Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

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• When I played with Michael Jordan on the Olympic team, there was a huge gap between his ability and the ability of the other great players on that team. But what impressed me was that he was always the first one on the floor and the last one to leave.

  ~ Steve Alford Quotes

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• Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience… When one door closes, another one always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

  ~ Brian Adams Quotes

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• The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  ~ William James Quotes

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• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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