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“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.” -Emanuel Swedenborg

“Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.” –Alexander Pope  

“Clarifying expectations sometimes takes a great deal of courage. It seems easier to act as though differences don’t exist and to hope things will work out than it is to face the differences and work together to arrive at a mutually agreeable set of expectations.” – Stephen R. Covey

“There are countless ways to achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one’s maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.” – Buck Rodgers

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” –Edmund Burke  

“If circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they would bless and harm all men alike, but the fact that the same circumstances will be alike good and bad to different souls proves that the good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.” –James …

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“Don’t be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.” -John …

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“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl S. Buck  

“Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.” – Cherie Carter-Scott

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. -Spanish Proverb

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

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” – Marian Wright Edelman  

“When you’re in your nineties and looking back, it’s not going to be how many awards you’ve won.  It’s really what did you stand for.  Did you make a positive difference for people?” –Elizabeth Dole

“People who are truly effective have the humility and reverence to recognize their own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.” -Stephen R. Covey

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” – Danny Kaye

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to truly make them ours, we must think them over again, honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” -Johann Goethe

“Keep your face in the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.” – Helen Keller

“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of people can change the course of history.” – Sonia Johnson

“Fall down seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Too many of us are hung up on what we don’t have, can’t have, or won’t ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.” …

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