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Dolly Parton -

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader."

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Mark Zuckerberg -

“Don’t discount yourself, no matter what you’re doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world. Just have faith in yourself and trust yourself.”

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Madonna -

"We are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow. We get what we give. We pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure."

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Barack Obama -

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."

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Oprah Winfrey -

“I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.”

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Nelson Mandela -

"There is no passion to be found in playing small–in settling for a life that is less than you are capable of living."

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Beyoncé -

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Rihanna -

"Spend time with people who know how to use their days well."

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Richard Branson -

"When I was 15, I left school to start a magazine, and it became a success because I wouldn’t take no for an answer."

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Hillary Clinton -

"Don't confuse having a career with having a life."

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Harrison Ford -

"'May the Force be with you' is charming but it’s not important. What’s important is that you become the force—for yourself and perhaps for other people.”

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Michelle Obama -

"There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence."

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Frank Sinatra -

"The best revenge is massive success."

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Robert De Niro -

"The most important thing for actors–and not just actors, but everybody–is to feel loose enough to create what you want to create and be free to try anything. To have choices.”

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Katy Perry -

"You don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams."

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Jim Carrey -

“So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m saying I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it, please!”

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Jennifer Aniston -

“No matter where you are in your career, you’re always going to lose stuff to other people. You’re always going to get heartbroken. So you need to just find a way to have it not be that important.”

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Ryan Gosling -

"I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is."

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Denzel Washington -

“Success? I don’t know what that word means. I’m happy. But success, that goes back to what, in somebody’s eyes, success means. For me, success is inner peace. That’s a good day for me.”

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Chris Pine -

"Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is head down and focus on the job."

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Ethan Hawke -

"If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it's not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun, and you aren't jealous of others."

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Steve Jobs -

"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."

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Walt Disney -

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

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Winston Churchill -

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt -

"Questions are often looked upon as questions of doubt, but I don’t see it that way at all. I question things to stay present, to make sure I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”

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Mary J. Blige -

"Believe in yourself when nobody else does."

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Arianna Huffington -

"I wish I could go back and tell myself, 'Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard but also unplugging, recharging, and renewing yourself.'"

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Victoria Beckham -

"I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it."

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Lily Allen -

"People are still under the illusion that every woman who is successful must be controlled by a man. I'm the boss."

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Kevin Kline -

“People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one.”

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Dax Shepard -

"Success is just a war of attrition. Sure, there’s an element of talent you should probably possess. But if you just stick around long enough, eventually, something is going to happen.”

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Deepak Chopra -

"As human beings, we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It’s the worst possible thing. It’s better to be outrageous."

Sources: (Forbes) (Glamour)

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