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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else."

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, Clergyman and Abolitionist

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“Life is a series of near misses. But a lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future.” Howard Schultz (1953 – ) American entrepreneur, chairman of Starbucks

"You can't just sit and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

Diana Ross
Singer and Actress

"There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, First Lady of the United States and Civil Rights Activist

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try
another approach is the secret of winning."

"We have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here."

Mildred Taylor
Author

"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Bertie Charles Forbes
1880-1954, Financial Journalist, Author and founder of Forbes Magazine

"Maybe you can't change the whole world, but if you have love in your heart you can make small differences every day, which really does change the world, one life at a time."

Kristina Koncz
Customer Experience Specialist

"Deal first with whatever is causing you the greatest emotional distress. Often this will break the logjam in your work and free you up mentally to complete other tasks."

Brian Tracy
Speaker and Author

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or

adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action

at all."

Norman Vincent Peale

1898-1993, Author of The Power of Positive Thinking…

"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."

John Maynard Keynes
1883-1946, Economist

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, Author

Hello to all here in the Secret of Success forum. Quite honestly, I have seen this individual (Mike) on Twitter for at least a year. It's funny how something said can just click all of a sudden and you say -'gee, maybe I should take a look at this'.

That's essentially what motivated me to sign up into this group.

i don't mind working hard and sticking with a project - especially when i believe in the people involved.

now - that doesn't mean it always works out.…