It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. —Mary Flannery O'Connor

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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

MARY FLANNERY O'CONNOR

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Believe you can and you're halfway there. —Theodore Roosevelt
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. —Oscar Wilde
Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day-in, day-out. Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint. —Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. —Ronnie Oldham
Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart. —Gordon B. Hinckley
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. —Aristotle
I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver. —Michelle Kwan
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. —Anne Bradstreet
The simple path: silence is prayer, prayer is faith, faith is love, love is service, the fruit of service is peace. —Mother Teresa
Freedom is never given; it is won. —A. Phiilip Randolph
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. —Anthony Trollope
Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. —Wilferd A. Peterson
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision. —Helen Keller
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. —Nicolas Chamfort
Love in action is service. —Ken Essien
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