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[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.12″][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Vince Lombardi” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Vince Lombardi”]<\/p>\n

\u201cPerfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Bill Gates” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Bill Gates”]<\/p>\n

\u201cSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking that they can\u2019t lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Ambrose Bierce” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Ambrose Bierce” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Charles Darwin” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Charles Darwin”]<\/p>\n

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Theodore Roosevelt” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Theodore Roosevelt”]<\/p>\n

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Drew Houston” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Drew Houston”]<\/p>\n

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”Drew HoustonDrew Houston<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

“You are conditioned to be in desperate need of a future.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Aristotle” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Aristotle” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Ted Geisel aka \u201cDr. Seuss\u201d” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Ted Geisel aka \u201cDr. Seuss\u201d” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cBe who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don\u2019t matter and those who matter don\u2019t mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

“Do it today or regret it tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Mark Twain” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Mark Twain” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Thomas Edison” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Thomas Edison” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Buddha” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Buddha” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think is what we become.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Albert Einstein” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Albert Einstein” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thankful to all those who said no to me. It\u2019s because of them I did it myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Joseph Priestley” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Joseph Priestley” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”The Dalai Lama” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”The Dalai Lama” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cA truthful, compassionate attitude is a sign of strength.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Gandhi” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Gandhi” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Jimmy Dean” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Jimmy Dean” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”George Addair” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”George Addair” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything you\u2019ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Mahatma Gandhi” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Mahatma Gandhi” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cHappiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Mark Twain” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Mark Twain” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”George Eliot” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”George Eliot” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s never too late to be what you might have been.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

“There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Steve Jobs” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Steve Jobs”]<\/p>\n

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”George Lucas” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”George Lucas” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cAlways remember your focus determines your reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Calvin Coolidge” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Calvin Coolidge”]<\/p>\n

\u201cNo man ever listened himself out of a job.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Henri Bergson” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Henri Bergson”]<\/p>\n

\u201cThink like a man of action; act like a man of thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

\u201cGo where you\u2019re celebrated not where you\u2019re tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Ted Geisel aka \u201cDr. Seuss\u201d” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Ted Geisel aka \u201cDr. Seuss\u201d”]<\/p>\n

\u201cBe who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don\u2019t matter and those who matter don\u2019t mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Warren Buffett” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Warren Buffett”]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you\u2019ll do things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Bill Gates” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Bill Gates”]<\/p>\n

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Mark Twain” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Mark Twain”]<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Socrates” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Socrates” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Warren Buffet” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Warren Buffet”]<\/p>\n

“Do the people you care about love you back?\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Babe Ruth” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Babe Ruth”]<\/p>\n

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Whitney Young Jr.” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Whitney Young Jr.”]<\/p>\n

“Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful, it is inspiring because the challenge now exists to make things better.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Winston Churchill” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Winston Churchill”]<\/p>\n

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”The Dalai Lama” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”The Dalai Lama” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cBe kind whenever possible. It is always possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Jonatan Martensson” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Jonatan Martensson” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

“Feelings are much like waves; we can\u2019t stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”The Dalai Lama” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”The Dalai Lama” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Albert Einstein” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Albert Einstein” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

“Any success that happens at the expense of your health, your family or your character is not real success.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Charles Darwin” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Charles Darwin”]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”John Quincy Adams” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”John Quincy Adams”]<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Bill Gates” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Bill Gates”]<\/p>\n

\u201cYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”George Lucas” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”George Lucas”]<\/p>\n

\u201cAlways remember your focus determines your reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Zig Ziglar” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Zig Ziglar”]<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Eleanor Roosevelt” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Eleanor Roosevelt”]<\/p>\n

\u201cTo handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Maya Angelou” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Maya Angelou”]<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing will work unless you do.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”William James” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”William James”]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”J.K. Rowling” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”J.K. Rowling”]<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want to know what a man\u2019s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Whitney Young Jr.” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Whitney Young Jr.”]<\/p>\n

\u201cChange has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful, it is inspiring because the challenge now exists to make things better.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Charles Swindoll” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Charles Swindoll”]<\/p>\n

\u201cLife is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Albert Einstein” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Albert Einstein”]<\/p>\n

\u201cLearn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Friedrich Von Schiller” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Friedrich Von Schiller”]<\/p>\n

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skills to do difficult things easily.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Winston Churchill” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Winston Churchill”]<\/p>\n

\u201cSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Thomas J. Watson Sr.” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Thomas J. Watson Sr.”]<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing so conclusively proves a man\u2019s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”George Bernard Shaw” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”George Bernard Shaw”]<\/p>\n

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Bob Marley” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Bob Marley”]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and ability to affect those around him positively.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Paulo Coelho” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Paulo Coelho” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Coco Chanel” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Coco Chanel”]<\/p>\n

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”John Dryden” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”John Dryden”]<\/p>\n

“First we make our habits, then our habits make us.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

“Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Thomas Edison” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Thomas Edison”]<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t failed. I\u2019ve just found 10,000 ways that won\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Mahatma Gandhi” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Mahatma Gandhi”]<\/p>\n

\u201cBe the change you want to see in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Dorothea Brande” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Dorothea Brande”]<\/p>\n

\u201cTo guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Amelia Earhart” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Amelia Earhart”]<\/p>\n

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Thomas Edison” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Thomas Edison”]<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of life\u2019s failures are people who didn\u2019t realize how close they were to success when giving up.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Alice Walker” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Alice Walker”]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don\u2019t have any.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Unknown” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Unknown”]<\/p>\n

“There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Jack Welch” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Jack Welch”]<\/p>\n

\u201cControl your own destiny or someone else will.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Winston Churchill” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Winston Churchill” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cTo improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”William Faulkner” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”William Faulkner”]<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Nelson Mandela” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Nelson Mandela”]<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Michael Jordan” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Michael Jordan”]<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I\u2019ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I\u2019ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I\u2019ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Bob Marley” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Bob Marley”]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and ability to affect those around him positively.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Walt Disney” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Walt Disney”]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr”]<\/p>\n

A mind that is stretched by new experience will never go back to its old dimensions.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Robert Brault” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Robert Brault”]<\/p>\n

\u201cCharisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you\u2019re around.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Aristotle Onassis” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Aristotle Onassis”]<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Viktor Frankl” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Viktor Frankl”]<\/p>\n

\u201cBetween stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Martin Luther King, Jr” _builder_version=”3.12″ author=”Martin Luther King, Jr” quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″]<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Pele” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Pele”]<\/p>\n

\u201cEnthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\/et_pb_testimonial][et_pb_testimonial admin_label=”Martin Luther King, Jr.” _builder_version=”3.12″ quote_icon_background_color=”#f5f5f5″ quote_icon=”off” body_font_size=”16″ author=”Martin Luther King, Jr.”]<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPerfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.\u201d \u201cSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking that they can\u2019t lose.\u201d \u201cSpeak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.\u201d “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.\" - Aristotle<\/p>

\"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.\" - The Dalai Lama<\/p>

\"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.\" - Paulo Coelho<\/p>

\"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.\" - Socrates<\/p>

\"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.\" - Ted Geisel aka \"Dr. Seuss\"<\/p>

Feelings are much like waves; we can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. - Jonatan Martensson<\/p>

\"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.\" - Winston Churchill<\/p>

\"Always remember your focus determines your reality.\" - George Lucas<\/p>

\"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.\" \u2014Mark Twain<\/p>

\"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.\" -Dalai Lama<\/p>

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you. Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.<\/p>

\"Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.\" - Ambrose Bierce<\/p>

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison<\/p>

\"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.\" \u2014Albert Einstein<\/p>

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.<\/p>

There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.<\/p>

\"All we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think is what we become.\" -Buddha<\/p>

Any success that happens at the expense of your health, your family or your character is not real success.<\/p>

Do it today or regret it tomorrow.<\/p>

\"No man ever listened himself out of a job.\" - Calvin Coolidge<\/p>

\"I am thankful to all those who said no to me. It's because of them I did it myself.\" - Albert Einstein<\/p>

\"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.\" - Charles Darwin<\/p>

\"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.\" - Thomas Edison<\/p>

\"Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.\" - Robert Brault<\/p>

\u201cThe ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.\u201d -Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>

\"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.\" - John Quincy Adams<\/p>

\"Be the change you want to see in the world.\" - Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>

You are conditioned to be in desperate need of a future<\/p>

\u201cThe more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Joseph Priestley<\/p>

\"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.\" - Bill Gates<\/p>

\"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.\" - Dorothea Brande<\/p>

\"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought.\" - Henri Bergson<\/p>

\"A truthful, compassionate attitude is a sign of strength.\" - The Dalai Lama<\/p>

\"Always remember your focus determines your reality.\" - George Lucas<\/p>

\"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.\" -Amelia Earhart<\/p>

\"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking that they can't lose.\" - Bill Gates<\/p>

\"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.\" - Gandhi<\/p>

\"I believe that success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination.\" - Zig Ziglar<\/p>

\"Many of life's failures are people who didn't realize how close they were to success when giving up.\" - Thomas Edison<\/p>

\"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.\" -Vince Lombardi<\/p>

\"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.\" -Jimmy Dean<\/p>

\"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.\" -Eleanor Roosevelt<\/p>

\"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.\" -Alice Walker<\/p>

\"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.\" -Aristotle Onassis<\/p>

\"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.\" -George Addair<\/p>

\"Nothing will work unless you do.\" -Maya Angelou<\/p>

\"Control your own destiny or someone else will.\" - Jack Welch<\/p>

\"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.\" - Winston Churchill<\/p>

\"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.\" - Mahatma Gandhi<\/p>

\"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.\" - William James<\/p>

\"Don't bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.\" - William Faulkner<\/p>

\"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.\" - Thomas J. Watson Sr.<\/p>

\"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\" - Mark Twain<\/p>

\"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.\" - J.K. Rowling<\/p>

\"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<\/p>

\"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\" - Mark Twain<\/p>

\"It's never too late to be what you might have been.\" - George Eliot<\/p>

\"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful, it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful, it is inspiring because the challenge now exists to make things better.\" - Whitney Young Jr.<\/p>

I've missed more than 9,000 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. - Michael Jordan<\/p>

\"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.\" - Viktor Frankl<\/p>

\"Go where you're celebrated not where you're tolerated.\"<\/p>

\"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.\" -Charles Swindoll<\/p>

\u201cThe greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and ability to affect those around him positively.\u201d - Bob Marley<\/p>

\"Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.\" - Pele<\/p>

\"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.\" - Ted Geisel aka \"Dr. Seuss\"<\/p>

\"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.\" \u2014Albert Einstein<\/p>

\"The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.\" \u2014Walt Disney<\/p>

\"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.\" \u2014Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>

\"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.\" \u2014Warren Buffett<\/p>

\"A mind that is stretched by new experience will never go back to its old dimensions.\" - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[54,53,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmarkzimmerman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}