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There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.
— William Barclay
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.
— Jim Rohn
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
— Albert Einstein
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
— Marcus Aurelius
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
— Muhammad Ali
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
— Ronald Reagan
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
— Wayne Dyer