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Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. — Vince Lombardi（Attribution unverified）
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. — Jonathan Kozol（Attribution unverified）
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. — Booker T. Washington（Attribution unverified）
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. — Emily Dickinson（Attribution unverified）
My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day. — Johnny Carson（Attribution unverified）
Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?' — Johnny Carson（Attribution unverified）
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. — John Wooden（Attribution unverified）
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. — Bill Gates（Attribution unverified）
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. — Alexis de Tocqueville（Attribution unverified）
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond. — Marcel Proust（Attribution unverified）
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. 'Tis dearness only that gives everything its value. — Thomas Paine（Attribution unverified）
It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance. — George Patton（Attribution unverified）
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. — Elbert Hubbard（Attribution unverified）
Some succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. — Elbert Hubbard（Attribution unverified）
Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt（Attribution unverified）
I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. — William Blake（Attribution unverified）
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — C.S. Lewis（Attribution unverified）
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer. — Amanda Grier（Attribution unverified）
Friends have all things in common. — Plato（Attribution unverified）
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. — Joseph Roux（Attribution unverified）