Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. — Barack Obama

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything. — Henry James

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Running water never grows stale. So you just have to keep on flowing. — Bruce Lee

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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand. ― Oprah Winfrey

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort. — Henry David Thoreau

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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end. — Michelle Obama

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Charles Kettering

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It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success. — John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ― Mark Twain

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