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[{
"body": "Yesterday, you said tomorrow.",
"source": "Nike"
}, {
"body": "Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.",
"source": "Jon Acuff"
}, {
"body": "The wisest mind has something yet to learn.",
"source": "George Santayana"
}, {
"body": "Be the change you wish to see in the world.",
"source": "Mahatma Gandhi"
}, {
"body": "When you're going through hell, keep going.",
"source": "Winston Churchill"
}, {
"body": "Don't let perfection become procrastination. Do it now.",
"source": "Danielle LaPorte"
}, {
"body": "Launch and learn. Everything is progress.",
"source": "Danielle LaPorte"
}, {
"body": "A year from now you will wish you had started today.",
"source": "Karen Lamb"
}, {
"body": "Failure is success if you learn from it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "If you don't like where you are, change it. You're not a tree.",
"source": "Jim Rohn"
}, {
"body": "If it ain't fun, don't do it.",
"source": "Jack Canfield"
}, {
"body": "A wet man does not fear the rain.",
"source": "Risa Rodil"
}, {
"body": "Stay hungry; stay foolish.",
"source": "Whole Earth Epilog, 1974"
}, {
"body": "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.",
"source": "Paul Carus, summarized from the Dhammapada, verse 165"
}, {
"body": "Never give up. Never let things out of your control dictate who you are.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Be kind; everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.",
"source": "Ian Maclaren"
}, {
"body": "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.",
"source": "Muhammed Ali"
}, {
"body": "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.",
"source": "Andrew Carnegie"
}, {
"body": "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.",
"source": "George Bernard Shaw"
}, {
"body": "Do more of what makes you happy.",
"source": "Carmel McConnell"
}, {
"body": "Do a little more of what you want to do every day, until your idea becomes what's real.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "You got this. Make it happen.",
"source": "Danielle LaPorte"
}, {
"body": "Don't blame others as an excuse for your not working hard enough.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.",
"source": "Lao Tzu"
}, {
"body": "To escape criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.",
"source": "Elbert Hubbard"
}, {
"body": "The world is moving so fast that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.",
"source": "Elbert Hubbard"
}, {
"body": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.",
"source": "Dr. Seuss"
}, {
"body": "One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.",
"source": "Paulo Coelho"
}, {
"body": "Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.",
"source": "Dwight D. Eisenhower"
}, {
"body": "Never let your fear decide your fate.",
"source": "AWOLNATION, \"Kill Your Heroes\""
}, {
"body": "Keep moving forward. One step at a time.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Life is simple. Are you happy? Yes? Keep going. No? Change something.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.",
"source": "Nicholas Klein",
"notes": "Commonly attributed to Gandhi, but there is some controversy as to the source: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Quotes_about_Gandhi"
}, {
"body": "A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.",
"source": "Mahatma Gandhi"
}, {
"body": "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The future depends on what we do in the present.",
"source": "Mahatma Gandhi"
}, {
"body": "I am strong because I've been weak. I am fearless because I've been afraid. I am wise because I've been foolish.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Believe in yourself.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Lower the cost of failure.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Keep your goals away from the trolls.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.",
"source": "Robert Tew"
}, {
"body": "Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.",
"source": "Eric Hoffer"
}, {
"body": "If you fear failure, you will never go anywhere.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Go ahead, let them judge you.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The only disability in life is a bad attitude.",
"source": "Matthew Jeffers"
}, {
"body": "If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.",
"source": "Albert Einstein"
}, {
"body": "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.",
"source": "J. Krishnamurti"
}, {
"body": "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.",
"source": "Miyamoto Musashi"
}, {
"body": "Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.",
"source": "Jake, \"Adventure Time\""
}, {
"body": "As you think, so shall you become.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Do not wish for an easy life. Wish for the strength to endure a difficult one.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.",
"source": "Oscar Wilde"
}, {
"body": "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.",
"source": "Martin Luther King Jr."
}, {
"body": "Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift, which is why we call it the present.",
"source": "Bil Keane"
}, {
"body": "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.",
"source": "Albert Einstein"
}, {
"body": "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.",
"source": "Thomas Edison"
}, {
"body": "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "It is never too late to be what you might have been.",
"source": "George Eliot"
}, {
"body": "Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.",
"source": "Lao Tzu"
}, {
"body": "If you want to awaken all of humanity, awaken all of yourself.",
"source": "Lao Tzu"
}, {
"body": "Don't regret anything you do, because in the end it makes you who you are.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.",
"source": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
}, {
"body": "Don't think about what might go wrong, think about what could be right.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.",
"source": "Lao Tzu"
}, {
"body": "To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to be yourself.",
"source": "Thich Nhat Hanh"
}, {
"body": "Let go of those who bring you down and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Don't let small minds convince you that your dreams are too big.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.'",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.",
"source": "Arnold Schwarzenegger"
}, {
"body": "You can feel sore tomorrow or you can feel sorry tomorrow. You choose.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.",
"source": "Isocrates"
}, {
"body": "There are seven days in the week and someday isn't one of them.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Start where you are. Use what you can. Do what you can.",
"source": "Arthur Ashe"
}, {
"body": "Dreams don't work unless you do.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "When you wake up in the morning you have two choices: go back to sleep, or wake up and chase those dreams.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit, but it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Live your dream, and wear your passion.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The biggest room in the world is room for improvement.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Every dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "You are awesome.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Anyone who stops learning is old.",
"source": "Henry Ford"
}, {
"body": "The cure to boredom is curiosity.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "It's time to start living the life you've only imagined.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "You don't have to live your life the way other people expect you to.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Do more with less.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Overthinking ruins you. Ruins the situation, twists it around, makes you worry and just makes everything much worse than it actually is.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Replace fear of the unknown with curiosity.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The surest way to find your dream job is to create it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "One man or woman with courage is a majority.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Do one thing every day that scares you.",
"source": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
}, {
"body": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.",
"source": "Henry Ford"
}, {
"body": "Don't just wait for inspiration. Become it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "When you judge others, you do not define them; you define yourself.",
"source": "Wayne Dyer"
}, {
"body": "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Do small things with great love.",
"source": "Mother Teresa",
"source": "Mother Teresa"
}, {
"body": "Go forth and make awesomeness.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.",
"source": "Napolean Hill"
}, {
"body": "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Excuses are born out of fear. Eliminate your fear and there will be no excuses.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "If they can do it, so can you.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Success isn't about being the best. It's about always getting better.",
"source": "Behance 99U"
}, {
"body": "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.",
"source": "Winston Churchill"
}, {
"body": "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.",
"source": "Winston Churchill"
}, {
"body": "Failure is just practice for success.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Shipping beats perfection.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again. This time more intelligently.",
"source": "Henry Ford"
}, {
"body": "While we are postponing, life speeds by.",
"source": "Seneca"
}, {
"body": "It always seems impossible until it's done.",
"source": "Nelson Mandela"
}, {
"body": "Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.",
"source": "Zig Ziglar"
}, {
"body": "It's not about where your starting point is, but your end goal and the journey that will get you there.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Waste no more time arguing about what a good person should be. Be one.",
"source": "Marcus Aurelius"
}, {
"body": "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.",
"source": "Anaïs Nin"
}, {
"body": "Absorb what is useful. Discard what is not. Add what is uniquely your own.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "Don't find fault. Find a remedy.",
"source": "Henry Ford"
}, {
"body": "Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.",
"source": "Karim Seddiki"
}, {
"body": "Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.",
"source": "Zig Ziglar"
}, {
"body": "Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.",
"source": "Dean Acheson"
}, {
"body": "The creative adult is the child who survived.",
"source": "Ursula K. Le Guin"
}, {
"body": "When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.",
"source": "Thomas Edison"
}, {
"body": "When you see a person without a smile, give them one of yours.",
"source": "Zig Ziglar"
}, {
"body": "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.",
"source": "Vincent Van Gogh"
}, {
"body": "The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.",
"source": "Thucydides"
}, {
"body": "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.",
"source": "Nelson Mandela"
}, {
"body": "Once a year, go some place you've never been before.",
"source": "Dalai Lama"
}, {
"body": "Never underestimate the ability of a small group of dedicated people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.",
"source": "Margaret Meade"
}, {
"body": "To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.",
"source": "Nelson Mandela"
}, {
"body": "Today is the most important day of our lives.",
"source": "Thich Nhat Hanh"
}, {
"body": "All great achievements require time.",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "Winning starts with beginning.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "If you're not doing what you love, you're wasting your time.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.",
"source": "Bruce Lee"
}, {
"body": "The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.",
"source": "Alan Watts"
}, {
"body": "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.",
"source": "Eric Hoffer"
}, {
"body": "We cannot teach people anything. We can only help them discover it within themselves.",
"source": "Galileo Galilei"
}, {
"body": "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.",
"source": "Annie Dillard"
}, {
"body": "I would rather die of passion than of boredom.",
"source": "Vincent Van Gogh"
}, {
"body": "Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.",
"source": "Laird Hamilton"
}, {
"body": "You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have.",
"source": "Maya Angelou"
}, {
"body": "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.",
"source": "Peter Drucker"
}, {
"body": "If you stumble make it part of the dance.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Each day wake up and ask yourself what will make you feel most alive that day.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life.",
"source": "Confucius"
}, {
"body": "It is not the load that breaks you down. It's the way you carry it.",
"source": "Lou Holtz"
}, {
"body": "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, bring others along.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.",
"source": "Sir Ken Robinson"
}, {
"body": "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.",
"source": "Jean Luc Picard"
}, {
"body": "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.",
"source": "Nelson Mandela"
}, {
"body": "If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.",
"source": "Greg McKeown"
}, {
"body": "Argue for your limitations, and surely they're yours.",
"source": "Richard Bach"
}, {
"body": "There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.",
"source": "David Burns"
}, {
"body": "A goal without a plan is only a wish.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "Every person is a new door to a different world.",
"source": "Six Degrees of Separation"
}, {
"body": "On your journey through life, make sure your biography has at least one extraordinary chapter.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "The journey is the reward.",
"source": "Steve Jobs"
}, {
"body": "Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads you to wisdom.",
"source": "Buddha"
}, {
"body": "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.",
"source": "Pablo Picasso"
}, {
"body": "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.",
"source": "Stephen McCranie"
}, {
"body": "Jumping from failure to failure with undiminished enthusiasm is the big secret to success.",
"source": "Savas Dimopoulos"
}, {
"body": "Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.",
"source": "Naguib Mahfouz"
}, {
"body": "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.",
"source": "Vincent Van Gogh"
}, {
"body": "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.",
"source": "Walt Disney"
}, {
"body": "What are the most powerful words in the universe? The ones you use to talk to yourself.",
"source": "Karen Salmansohn"
}, {
"body": "Within you is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.",
"source": "Hermann Hesse"
}, {
"body": "Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.",
"source": "Richard Branson"
}, {
"body": "Success is something you attract by the person you become.",
"source": "Jim Rohn"
}, {
"body": "Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think",
"source": "A. A. Milne"
}, {
"body": "Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.",
"source": "Winnie the Pooh"
}, {
"body": "It's up to you how far you go. If you don't try, you'll never know!",
"source": "Merlin, \"Sword in the Stone\""
}, {
"body": "The only way to learn it is to do it.",
"source": "Archimedes, \"Sword in the Stone\""
}, {
"body": "In matters of style swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.",
"source": "Unknown"
}, {
"body": "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.",
"source": "C. S. Lewis"
}, {
"body": "Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.",
"source": "Mahatma Gandhi"
}, {
"body": "The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.",
"source": "Steve Jobs"
}, {
"body": "The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.",
"source": "Alexandra K. Trenfor"
}, {
"body": "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.",
"source": "Henry David Thoreau"
}, {
"body": "Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.",
"source": "Immanuel Kant"
}, {
"body": "When feeling overwhelmed by a faraway goal, repeat the following: I have it within me right now, to get me to where I want to be later.",
"source": "Karen Salmansohn"
}, {
"body": "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.",
"source": "Roald Dahl"
}, {
"body": "You have power over your mind -- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.",
"source": "Marcus Aurelius"
}, {
"body": "You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.",
"source": "Jonathan Safran Foer"
}, {
"body": "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.",
"source": "William James"
}, {
"body": "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.",
"source": "Khalil Gibran"
}, {
"body": "Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.",
"source": "Matsuo Basho"
}]