My Core Mission
To make this world a better, kinder place because I was in it.
Words of wisdom I live by
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STEVE JOBS
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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
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GANDHI
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Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from indomitable will.
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NELSON MANDELA
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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WALT DISNEY
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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OPRAH WINFREY
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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
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ARISTOTLE
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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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HELEN KELLER
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
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MAYA ANGELOU
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You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.
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BABE RUTH
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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
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THOMAS EDISON
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.
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ROBERT FROST
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
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STEVE JOBS
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL
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Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
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BARACK OBAMA
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The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
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ZIG ZIGLAR
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Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.
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ESTEE LAUDER
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I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.
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CONRAD HILTON
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit.
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COLIN POWELL
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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JIM ROHN
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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better.
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COLIN R. DAVIS
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The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
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THOMAS EDISON
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I failed my way to success.
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JOHN WOODEN
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Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
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THOMAS J. WATSON
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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
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ALICE WALKER
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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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JIM ROHN
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If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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WAYNE GRETZKY
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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HENRY FORD
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Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
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AYN RAND
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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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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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AMELIA EARHART
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
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SOCRATES
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
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GEORGE ADDAIR
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Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
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NORMAN VAUGHAN
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Dream big and dare to fail.
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BEVERLY SILLS
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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CHARLES SWINDOLL
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Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
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CONFUCIUS
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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
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AUDREY HEPBURN
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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible!’
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HENRY FORD
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When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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ROSA PARKS
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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
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I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.
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SHERYL SANDBERG
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If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.
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NAPOLEON HILL
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Whatever the mind…can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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MARK TWAIN
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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ALBERT EINSTEIN
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It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer.
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LAO TZU
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
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JOHN WOODEN
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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J.K. ROWLING
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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Awards:
President’s Volunteer Service Award (National, 5-time winner)
Outstanding Leadership Award (International)
National Merit Finalist (National)
Love conquers all.
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