What quote keeps you going?

"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." -William Ernest Henley

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I don't how could I forget Rand's -"I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”

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"I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you"- Seve Ballesteros.

 

“For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted.” - Frank Underwood

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed" - Michael Jordan

 

@citizen

Grammar police: it's "quotation" not "quote"

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

'Aim high, or you'll end up pissing on your shoes'

CNBC sucks "This financial crisis is worse than a divorce. I've lost all my money, but the wife is still here." - Client after getting blown up
 

Quotes do nothing for me. Cleverly constructed sentences probably get me going for about 2 minutes hence I save them for sex.

But in all honesty, I have two pictures in my wallet that I look at everyday since I have to dip into my wallet once or twice. The first is of my mother and the second is my that of my siblings. Two things that remind me of what got me here and what I'm working for.

 

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit."

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

Both Vince Lombardi

 

As I sit 5,000 miles away from home..

"Ships are safest in harbor, but that's not what ships are for" - some guy

"I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people."
 
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Multiple quotes from Napoleon Hill:

"Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure"

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit"

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit"

"You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does"

One of my favorite commencement speeches: And J.K. Rowling doesn't even mention how many publishers she brought Harry Potter to before it finally was accepted.

Link for more quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/n/napoleon_hill_2.html

Love watching/reading motivational stuff and getting fired up!

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