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| People are always blaming their circumstances for what
they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in this
world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want,
and if they can't find them -- make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw,
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| I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to
it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does
it.
-- William Hazlitt |
| In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to
lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-- Anonymous |
| The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing,
we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but
jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
-- Robert Cushing |
| Dance
Like nobody’s watching. Love Like you’ve never been hurt. -- Unknown |
| Today, life is so much more convenient than when I was
young. We didn’t have TV. We seldom saw an airplane.
A lot has changed, but there is one thing in 62 years that I have not seen.
I have not seen anyone find a convenient or easy way to succeed at something or to
win.
-- Lou Holtz
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| Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make
a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion,
will make a man brave in another.
-- Charles Caleb Colton |
| To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven
constitutes perfect virtue ... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness,
and kindness.
-- Confucious (551-479 BC),
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| I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the
strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
-- Christopher Reeve |
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Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty,
believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
-- Louisa May Alcott |
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Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about
themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing.
-- J.E de Goncourt, |
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"Dream as though you'll live forever; live as though you'll die today."
-- J.E de Goncourt, |
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Many people will walk in and out or your life, but only true friends
will leave footprints in your heart.
-- Unknown |
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To handle yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.
-- Unknown |
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He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses more; He who loses faith, loses all.
-- Unknown |
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Beautiful young people are acts of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. -- Unknown |
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Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. -- Unknown |
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The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it. -- Unknown |
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Friends, you and me ... you brought another friend ... and then there were
3 ... we started our group ... our circle of friends ... and like that
circle ... there is no beginning ... there is no end.
-- Unknown |
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If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle |
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Mistakes are a fact of life. It's the response to the error that counts. -- Nikki Giovanni |
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa |
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Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible. -- St.Francis of Assisi |
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We can not forever hide the truth of ourselves from ourselves.
-- John McCain |
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Confidence, like art never comes from haviing all the answers, it comes from being open to all the questions. -- Earl Gary Stevens |
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. -- H. Jackson Brown |
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Look at everything as though you were
looking at it for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
-- Berry Smith |
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There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. -- Alfred Korzybski |
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Reflect upon your present blessings - of which everyone has many not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -- Charles Dickens |
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Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. -- Oprah Winfrey |
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It takes 20 years to build
a reputation but only 5 minutes to ruin it.
-- Warren Buffet |
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You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you'd better know something. -- C. S. Lewis |
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. -- Garrison Keillor |
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Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings |
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-- Garrison Keillor |
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
-- Garrison Keillor |
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Procrastination is like a credit card; it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. -- Christopher Parker |
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
-- Peter F. Druker |
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Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by
people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
-- Doug Larson |
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Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may.
We use what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day.
-- Roger Wilcox |
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. -- C. S. Lewis |
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Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
-- George William Curtis |
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. -- Oprah Winfrey |
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If you obey all the rules,
you miss all the fun.
-- Katherine Hepburn |
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Take only memories. Leave only footprints.
-- Chief Seattle |
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Gratitude is the heart's memory.
-- French Proverb |
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No matter where you go or what you do, your mother will always be behind you ... quietly ripping her hair out. -- Cathy Guisewite |
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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
-- Erma Bombeck |
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
-- Honore' de Balzac |
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Friends are the family you choose.
-- Proverb |
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True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. -– Theophrastus |
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-– George Eliot |
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The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to
life that nothing else can bring.
-– Oscar Wilde |
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly,
distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
-– Benjamin Franklin, |
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau, |
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), |
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A goal is a dream that has an ending.
-- Duke Ellington |
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water
flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
-- Thomas Carlyle |
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The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and
truth.
-- Albert Einstein |
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the
stuff life is made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
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The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and
persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who
have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the
tragic brevity of time.
--W.J. Davison |
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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of
hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a
character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new
fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit
makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
--James Buckham |
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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
--F. Hawes |
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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher
than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
--F. Hawes |
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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's
name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another
day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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There is an infinite distance between the wishers and the doers. A mere
desire is lukewarm water, which will never take a train to its destination;
the purpose must boil, must be made into live steam to do the work. Who
would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate
community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken,
if he had brought only a part of himself to his task? The great secret of
his career has been that he has flung his whole life, not a part of it, with
all the determination and energy and power he could muster, into everything
he has undertaken. No dillydallying, no faint-hearted efforts, no lukewarm
purpose for him!
--Orison Sweet Marden |
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed,
but I am bound to live by the light that I have.
-- Abraham Lincoln |
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If we should fail --
We fail.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
-- Unknown |
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have
wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have
resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile
yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an
idea that is obviously impossible.
--Dr. Frank Richards |
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One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above
the little things."
-- John Burroughs |
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That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it
is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find
grandeur in porters and sweeps.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up
blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is
the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
--Felix Adler |
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his
maker can teach him.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is
to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination
to succeed, and the work is half done already.
--J.N. Fadenburg |
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and
admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man
who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a
devil.
--James A. Garfield |
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It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face
themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet
humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to
master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to
give the predominance of courage over timidity.
-- General Douglas MacArthur, |
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Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.
--George Elliot |
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
--Epictetus |
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true
nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
-- Hindu proverb |
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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the
form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this,
always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps
which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I
resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather
be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
--Helen Keller |
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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women
trample themselves… and die. Something magnificent is taking place here
amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to
intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage
prevail.
-- C.A. Beard |
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The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves but in our attitude
towards them.
-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence and to
victory, even though we know complete victory cannot be obtained, it must be
pursued with all one’s might. The championships, the money, the color; all
of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to
excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
-- Vince Lombardi |
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt |
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The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a
private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out into the
world and doing something original.
-- Tom Morris, from his book |
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely
miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite
certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
-- Agatha Christie |
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Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in
human behavior.
-– H. A. Overstreet |
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If you have made mistakes there is always another chance. You may have a
fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not
the falling down, but the staying down.
-– Mary Pickford, |
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Pain is temporary, pride is forever.
--Anonymous |
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He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.
-- Japanese proverb |
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There’s a lot to be said for being able to site at a (computer) terminal and
just dream.
-- Tim Berners-Lee, |
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Take time to laugh – it is the music of the soul.
-- From an old English prayer |
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them
become what they are capable of becoming.
-– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at
work worth doing.
-- Theodore Roosevelt |
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The noble soul has reverence for itself.
-- Frederick Nietzsche |
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