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ACCEPTANCE
"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody." - Mother Teresa

ACCOMPLISHMENT
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. Andthat which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do." - Dwight L. Moody

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." - Thomas Edison

ACHIEVEMENT
"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist." - J. Harold Wilkins

"Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - General George S. Patton

ACTION
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait forthe train of the future run over him." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action." - B.C. Forbes

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass

"The only good thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good man to do nothing." - Edmund Burke

ADVENTURE
"Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare." - Queen Mother Elizabeth

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown." - Ferdinand Magellan, Explorer

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

ADVERSITY
"Adversity introduces a man to himself." - Anonymous

AFFIRMATION
"Commendation heals; condemnation destroys."
- Carl Jung

AGE
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
- Henry Ford

"No matter how many years have passed since I was a boy, I am still that boy, and I will never be able to see myself as being old enough to break my hip in a fall, unless a linebacker landed on top of me. At 50, I know the way of all flesh intellectually, but a part of me still feels as immortal as a child." - Bill Cosby

There are four ages of man:
(1) When you believe in Santa Claus.
(2) When you don't believe in Santa Claus.
(3) When you are Santa Claus.
(4) When you look like Santa Claus.

"Childhood: the time in life when you make funny faces in the mirror. Middle age: the time of life when the mirror gets even." - Unknown

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

ANONYMITY
F.D.R. once said that what he wanted on his staff was young men with a passion for anonymity.

ANGER
"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." - Albert Einstein

"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."
- Benjamin Franklin

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius

"The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." - Bede Jarrett

"When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry." - Haliburton

"As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, ‘Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.’" - Elizabeth Kenny

"No person is important enough to make me angry."
- Carlos Castaneda

ANXIETY
"Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."
- Billy Graham

"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." - Robert Albert Bloch

ASSOCIATION
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for ‘tis better to be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington

"Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ASPIRATION
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either." - Leo Burnett

ATTITUDE
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford

"Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded." - J.C. Macaulay

"The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

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