I got my start by giving myself a start.

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"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights."

- Madam C.J. Walker

Hard Work

"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

Empowerment

"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

Empowerment

"Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!"

- Madam C.J. Walker

Ambition

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"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."

- Mortimer J. Adler

Self-improvement

"You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined."

- Anon

Self-improvement

"Do not think about other things, there is only one thing you can do. So master that one thing. Do not forget. What you must imagine is always that you, yourself, are the strongest. You do not need outside enemies. For you, the one you have to fight is none other than your own image."

- Archer

Self-improvement

"You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face."

- Roronoa Zoro

Self-improvement

"Take a page from the dragonfly's book – be vibrant and let your true colors shine"

Self-improvement