Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

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When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises. ― Paulo Coelho

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If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. -- H.G. Wells

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Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.

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The ultimate success formula: I) Decide what you want (Be precise! Clarity is power) II) Take action (because desire is not enough) III) Notice what's working or not (You don't want to continue to expend energy on an approach that's worthless IV) Change your approach until you achieve what you want (Flexibility gives you the power to create a new approach and a new result.

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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

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Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.

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Any Idiot can point out a problem . A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

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