I hope you are well and that these quotes will help you in your search for more prosperity and happiness. It is my pleasure each week to bring some of that to you and those you keep close.

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1. "Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character."
--Anthony Robbins

2. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
--Helen Keller

3. "Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top."
--D.A. Benton

4. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

5. "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
--John F. Kennedy

6. "Luck is not chance - It's toil - Fortune's expensive smile - Is earned."
--Emily Dickinson

7. "Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity."
--Earl Nightingale