I can't change the direction ...

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
 Jimmy Dean

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
 Jimmy Dean
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
 Jimmy Dean
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.
 Jimmy Dean
I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.
 Jimmy Dean
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
 Jimmy Dean