I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success. — Alexander Graham Bell

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. — Mark Twain

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The greatest revenge is massive success. ― Les Brown

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. — Mark Twain

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Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

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I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. — Thomas A. Edison

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We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

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