Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.

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"To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power."

- Maya Angelou

Love

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."

- Maya Angelou

Courage

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

"The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness."

- Maya Angelou

Compassion

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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

- Tony Robbins

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

- Beverly Sills

Success

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

Success

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

Success

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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