I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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We become what we think about.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.

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Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

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Dream big and dare to fail.

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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

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What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

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Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

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Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

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Fall seven times and stand up eight.

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Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

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Eighty percent of success is showing up.

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

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An unexamined life is not worth living.

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If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

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The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

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There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

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Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

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Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.