Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. — Colin Powell

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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. — Nelson Mandela

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

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When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.

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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go

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