You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. Joel Osteen

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Growth is the only evidence of life. – John Henry Newman

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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. - Julian Barnes

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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

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You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.

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I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.

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All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

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It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people. -Donald Trump

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ― Rick Riordan

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