I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. — Marie Curie

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

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. ― Helen Keller

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You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy. — Alan Cohen

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Let people judge me as they please - I can deceive them, but I cannot deceive myself.

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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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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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Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ― Nelson Mandela

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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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