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“I recognized others’ abilities as well. But in any career, whether it’s that of a TV repairman, a musician, a secretary—or a surgeon—an individual must believe in himself and in his abilities. To do his best, one needs a confidence that says, “I can do anything, and if I can’t do it, I know how to get help.”
― Ben Carson

“In the past, before the physiology of abdominal training was well understood, bodybuilders used to do a lot of “conventional” abdominal exercises such as Sit-Ups and Leg Raises. Unfortunately, those are not primary abdominal exercises but instead work the iliopsoas muscles—the hip flexors.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger

“A second barrier to total surrender is our pride. We don’t want to admit that we’re just creatures and not in charge of everything. It is the oldest temptation: “You’ll be like God!”11 That desire — to have complete control — is the cause of so much stress in our lives. Life is a struggle, but what most people don’t realize is that our struggle, like Jacob’s, is really a struggle with God! We want to be God, and there’s no way we are going to win that struggle.”
― Rick Warren

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don’t settle for poor performers. Keep in mind that one great person will always out-produce and out-perform two mediocre people.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.”
― Joyce Meyer

“The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.”
― John C. Maxwell

“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
― Martin Luther King Jr

“Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be “attracted.”
― Napoleon Hill

“Positive thinkers focus their minds on the future; they are never complacent about where they are.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.”
― Billy Graham

“Therefore I tell you, stop being perpetually uneasy (anxious and worried) about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink; or about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life greater [in quality] than food, and the body [far above and more excellent] than clothing? Matthew 6:25”
― Joyce Meyer

“Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
― John C. Maxwell

“Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. Prison desk calendar, written on Robben Island, June 2, 1979” 
― Nelson Mandela

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