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Thoughts Sent In 2014 |
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1/6/2014 |
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Children are
like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression. |
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Haim Ginott |
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1/7/2014 |
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Could we teach
taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. |
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Joshua Reynolds |
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1/8/2014 |
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Count your blessings! Things can always get better and can always be
worse. |
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Donald Neviaser |
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1/9/2014 |
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Credit to the
fullest the good qualities to be found in others, even though they may
far outshine your own. |
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William M. Peck |
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1/10/2014 |
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Don’t let life
discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. |
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Richard L.
Evans |
|
1/13/2014 |
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You need to
learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be
happy by circumstance. |
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Lavetta Sue
Wegman |
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1/14/2014 |
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Strive to
accomplish the very best that you are capable of. Nothing less than your
best effort will suffice. You may fool others, but you can never fool
yourself. Self-satisfaction will come from the knowledge that you left
no stone unturned in an effort to accomplish everything possible under
the circumstances. |
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John Wooden |
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1/15/2014 |
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Strive to make
something of yourself; then strive to make the most of yourself. |
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Alexander
Crummell |
|
1/16/2014 |
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Stop asking if
the glass is half full or half empty. Instead, ask "What's in it? How
did it get there? What can I do with it?" |
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David Kaufman |
|
1/17/2014 |
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Strange, when
you ask anyone’s advice you see yourself what is right. |
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Slema Lagerlof |
|
1/20/2014 |
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Stop caring
what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not
theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't
work out the way you'd hoped … their opinion shouldn't matter more than
your own. |
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Stephanie Klein |
|
1/21/2014 |
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Success is the
maximum utilization of the ability that you have. |
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Zig Ziglar |
|
1/22/2014 |
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Suffering over
things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with
the past. |
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Byron Katie |
|
1/23/2014 |
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The amount of
good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act. |
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Barbara Sher |
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1/24/2014 |
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The best healer
is good cheer. |
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Pindar |
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1/27/2014 |
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You can do
anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the
gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make
of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. |
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Robert Collier
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|
1/28/2014 |
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You are in
charge of your attitude. |
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Dave Odom |
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1/29/2014 |
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If you can't do
the time, don't do the crime. |
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Unknown |
|
1/30/2014 |
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Every day you
must try to make yourself grow. This you can do. |
|
Maxwell Maltz |
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1/31/2014 |
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Everyone knows
you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, but isn't it amazing how
many eggs you can break without making an omelet. |
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Charles Issawi |
|
2/3/2014 |
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You know how mountains get moved? Everyone who can move a couple, move a
couple. Those who can move rocks, move rocks. Those who can move
boulders, move boulders. That’s how mountains get moved. If everyone of
us did everything we could, I believe we would be in a different world. |
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Chris Gardner |
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2/4/2014 |
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Having the
world’s best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who
want milk shouldn’t sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes
that a cow will back up to them. |
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Curtis Grant |
|
2/6/2014 |
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Every action of
our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. |
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Edwin Hubbel
Chapin |
|
2/7/2014 |
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Get some good
mentors who are older that you and are bright, wise, and have been
around. Don't go to people who will tell you what you want to hear. |
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Jerry West |
|
2/10/2014 |
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Fools live to
regret their words, wise men to regret their silence. |
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Will Henry |
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2/11/2014 |
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Focus on being productive instead of busy. |
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Timothy Ferriss |
|
2/12/2014 |
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Expectancy
speeds progress. Therefore, live in a continual state of expectancy. No
matter how much good you are experiencing today, expect greater good
tomorrow. Expect to meet new friends. Expect to meet new and wonderful
experiences. |
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Ernest Holmes |
|
2/13/2014 |
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Each day
provides its own gifts. |
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Martial |
|
2/14/2014 |
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If you want to
love somebody, stand there and do it. If you don't, don't. There are not
other choices. |
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Tyne Daly |
|
2/17/2014 |
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If you would
not have affliction visit you twice, listen that once to what it
teaches. |
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James Burgh |
|
2/18/2014 |
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If you’re not
prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original. |
- |
Ken Robinson |
|
2/19/2014 |
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If you're going
to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as
well laugh about it now. |
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Marie Osmond |
|
2/20/2014 |
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In every
triumph there's a lot of try. |
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Frank Tyger |
|
2/21/2014 |
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In a completely
rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us
would have to settle for something less. |
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Lee Iacocca |
|
2/24/2014 |
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Years back,
someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all. Cheerfulness is more
palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste. |
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Mary Christelle
Macaluso |
|
2/25/2014 |
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When you make a
mistake, admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it. |
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Bear Bryant |
|
2/26/2014 |
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When you
forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the
future. |
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Bernard Meltzer |
|
2/27/2014 |
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When we come
face-to-face, our differences vanish. |
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Chinese proverb |
|
2/28/2014 |
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When I started
counting my blessings, my whole life turned around. |
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Willie Nelson |
|
3/3/2014 |
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Whatever you
do, you will need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will
always be someone to tell you that you are wrong. Difficulties will
arise which will tempt you to believe that your critics are right. Map
out your course of action, and follow it to the end. |
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
|
3/4/2014 |
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What you build
easily will fall quickly. |
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Slovenian
proverb |
|
3/5/2014 |
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What works best
is delegating authority, learning you cannot do everything and some
people can do it better. |
- |
Willi Smith |
|
3/6/2014 |
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What we love to
do we find time to do. |
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John Lancaster
Spalding |
|
3/7/2014 |
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Wear a smile
and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. |
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George Eliot |
|
3/10/2014 |
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We become
relevant in the lives of others when we learn about their interests,
wants, and needs. |
- |
Pam Holloway |
|
3/11/2014 |
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Up to a certain
point every man is what he thinks he is. |
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FH Bradley |
|
3/12/2014 |
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Until you value
yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will
not do anything with it. |
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M. Scott Peck |
|
3/13/2014 |
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action,
a superior mind exists in torture. |
- |
Benedetto Croce |
|
3/14/2014 |
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True wisdom
lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. |
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E.S. Bouton |
|
3/17/2014 |
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True greatness
is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier—when it's spelled
with a lower case letter. |
|
Richard Hamming
- via Barbara Bugal |
|
3/18/2014 |
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Too often we
give children the answers to remember rather than problems to solve. |
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Roger Lewin |
|
3/19/2014 |
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Tragedy is the
difference between what is and what could have been. |
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Abba Eban |
|
3/20/2014 |
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True love is
when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. |
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Leanna L.
Bartram |
|
3/21/2014 |
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To wish you
were someone else is to waste the person you are. |
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Sven Goran
Eriksson |
|
3/25/2014 |
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He Who Dies
With The Most Toys... Still Dies! |
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Tim Radkey |
|
3/26/2014 |
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How different
our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and,
keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to
know what matters most. |
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Stephen Covey |
|
3/27/2014 |
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He that
respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none
can pierce. |
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Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow |
|
3/28/2014 |
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Guts is making
clear decisions in uncertain situations because you have a clear set of
values that enable you to have courage. |
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Stephen
Rhinesmith |
|
3/31/2014 |
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You have to
turn to one another when things get rough, not on one another. |
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Johnny Davis |
|
4/1/2014 |
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Fools look to
tomorrow; wise men used tonight. |
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Scottish
proverb |
|
4/2/2014 |
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Faith is taking
the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. |
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Martin Luther
King Jr. |
|
4/3/2014 |
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest
reaches of which we are capable. |
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Leo C. Rosten |
|
4/4/2014 |
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Have a positive
outlook. Excitement and enthusiasm are contagious, and people want to be
around it. |
- |
Bob Stoops |
|
4/7/2014 |
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Everything you
ever wanted is on the other side of fear. |
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George Addair |
|
4/8/2014 |
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Live your life
so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. |
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Cherokee Saying |
|
4/9/2014 |
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Love is not
measured by how many times you touch each other but by how many times
you reach each other. |
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Cathy Morancy |
|
4/10/2014 |
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Maturity
consists of no longer being taken in by yourself. |
- |
Kajetan Von
Schlaggenberg |
|
4/11/2014 |
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May the work
that you have be the play that you love! |
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E. Gerberding |
|
4/14/2014 |
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Minds are like
parachutes: they only function when open. |
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Thomas R. Dewar |
|
4/15/2014 |
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Perhaps if one
really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were
necessary for one's life. |
- |
Joanna Field |
|
4/16/2014 |
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Possibilities
don't add up. They multiply. |
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Paul M. Romer |
|
4/17/2014 |
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Progress is
impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything. |
- |
George Bernard
Shaw |
|
4/18/2014 |
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Remember that
the happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they
are or not. |
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unknown |
|
4/21/2014 |
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Your heart is
full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. |
- |
Morihei Ueshiba |
|
4/22/2014 |
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You raze the
old to raise the new. |
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Justna Chen
Headley |
|
4/23/2014 |
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You must make a
habit of thinking in terms of a defined objective. |
- |
John Henry
Patterson |
|
4/24/2014 |
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You have to go
beyond the fear. |
- |
Danny Glover |
|
4/25/2014 |
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You can't
assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is a learned behavior. |
- |
Katie Couric |
|
4/28/2014 |
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You can stand
tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having
victims. |
- |
Harriet Woods |
|
4/29/2014 |
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You can find
energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must
learn how to catch them, hold on to them... and allow yourself to follow
where they lead. |
- |
Marcus
Buckingham |
|
4/30/2014 |
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Year-by-year
the complexities of this spinning world grown more bewildering and so
each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful
simplicities. |
- |
Woman's Home
Companion |
|
5/1/2014 |
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Wisdom lies
neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between them. |
- |
Octavio Paz |
|
5/2/2014 |
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Who rises late
must trot all day. |
- |
American
Proverb |
|
5/5/2014 |
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Wisdom, unlike
gold, is treasure that gains value by being spent. |
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Unknown |
|
5/6/2014 |
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Where is the
university for courage? The university for courage is to do what you
believe in! |
- |
El Cordobes |
|
5/7/2014 |
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When you find
peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at
peace with others. |
|
Peace Pilgrim |
|
5/8/2014 |
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When we're
pursuing our passion, it isn't just getting to the goal, because the
journey is as rewarding as the end result. At the end of our lives we
can say, "I loved my life" - the ultimate definition of success. |
- |
Cynthia Kersey |
|
5/9/2014 |
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When there's a
hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it smaller. |
- |
H Jackson Brown |
|
5/12/2014 |
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When you have
completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. |
- |
Japanese
proverb |
|
5/13/2014 |
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What others are
doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth. |
- |
Janet Gallagher
Nestor |
|
5/14/2014 |
|
We do not need
magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside
ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. |
- |
J.K. Rowling |
|
5/15/2014 |
|
Twenty years
from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do
than by the ones you did. So, sail away from the safe harbor! Catch the
trade winds in your sails! Explore! Dream! Discover! |
- |
Mark Twain |
|
5/16/2014 |
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If not now,
when? |
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Unknown |
|
5/19/2014 |
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When the
student is ready, the Master appears. |
- |
Buddhist
Proverb |
|
5/20/2014 |
|
What ennobles
us humans is that we can act against our own impulses when we know
they’re wrong. We can do the thing we don’t want to do out of love for
another person. |
- |
Robert Olen
Butler |
|
5/21/2014 |
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We can pay our
debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. |
- |
John Buchan |
|
5/22/2014 |
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When you teach
your son, you teach your son's son. |
- |
The Talmud |
|
5/23/2014 |
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You cannot
create experience; you undergo it. |
- |
Albert Camus |
|
5/27/2014 |
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What counts in
any system is the itelligence, self-control, conscience, and energy of
the individual. |
- |
Cyrus Eaton |
|
5/28/2014 |
|
We seriously
undervalue the passion... A person brings to an enterprise. You can rent
a brain, but you can't rent a heart. |
- |
Mark MacCormack |
|
5/29/2014 |
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Try not to
become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. |
- |
Albert Einstein |
|
5/30/2014 |
|
True luck
consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest is he who
knows just when to rise and go home. |
- |
John Hay |
|
6/2/2014 |
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Have a real
commitment to excellence. ("Pretty good" and "not bad" are not good
enough.) |
- |
Jim Mora Jr. |
|
6/3/2014 |
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Everyone and
everything around you is your teacher. |
- |
Ken Keyes |
|
6/4/2014 |
|
Life has more
questions than answers. |
- |
George Halsey |
|
6/5/2014 |
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All of us are
born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has
nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself.
It's what you do for others. |
- |
Danny Thomas |
|
6/6/2014 |
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All the advice in the world will never help you until you help yourself. |
- |
Fred Van
Amburgh |
|
6/9/2014 |
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Learn to do
what ought to be done, when it should be done, whether you like it or
not. |
- |
Roy W. Haley |
|
6/11/2014 |
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Learn to use
ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends. |
- |
William A.
Irvin |
|
6/11/2014 |
|
Let tomorrow
come tomorrow. |
- |
Alice Steinbach |
|
6/12/2014 |
|
Listen and
learn before you talk and teach. |
- |
Jean Pawlowski |
|
6/13/2014 |
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Listening, not
imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. |
- |
Dr. Joyce
Brothers |
|
6/16/2014 |
|
Living
fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be
afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. What's not good is living
in fear, allowing fear to define who you are. Living fearlessly means
standing up to fear, taking its measure, refusing to let it shape and
define your life. |
- |
Michael
Ignatieff |
|
6/17/2014 |
|
Looking back
over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. |
- |
Ray Bradbury |
|
6/18/2014 |
|
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. |
- |
Ludwig Borne |
|
6/19/2014 |
|
Love never
fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams
do come true. |
- |
Pete Maravich |
|
6/20/2014 |
|
Love rules
without rules. |
- |
Italian Proverb |
|
6/23/2014 |
|
It's not what
you get out of life that counts; it's what you give and what is given to
you from the heart. |
- |
Sargent Shriver |
|
6/24/2014 |
|
It's loving and
giving that make life worth living. |
- |
Unknown |
|
6/25/2014 |
|
It's already a
given that life's a failure, by which I mean that we come with an
expiration date. We already know we're going to break down and crash.
There's something liberating about that. This is our moment in the sun.
Let's dance. |
|
Ron Ortner |
|
6/26/2014 |
|
It’s a good
idea to step out of line every once in a while and look around to see if
the line is going where we want it to go. |
- |
Earl
Nightingale |
|
6/27/2014 |
|
It makes no
difference what the clock says or what the calendar says. It is still
now and always will be now. |
- |
Joel Goldsmith |
|
6/30/2014 |
|
It isn't for
the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill
climb back to sanity and faith and security. |
- |
Ann Morrow
Lindbergh |
|
7/1/2014 |
|
Riches adorn
the dwelling; virtue adorns the person. |
- |
Chinese Proverb |
|
7/2/2014 |
|
Do not judge my
intelligence by the answers I give, but instead by the questions I ask. |
- |
Mark
McGranaghan |
|
7/3/2014 |
|
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. |
- |
Ella Williams |
|
7/7/2014 |
|
Better ask
twice than lose your way once. |
- |
Danish proverb |
|
7/8/2014 |
|
Blaming destiny
is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations. |
- |
Malcom Forbes |
|
7/9/2014 |
|
Challenges make
you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're
what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm. |
- |
Cecily Tyson |
|
7/10/2014 |
|
Charm strikes
the sight, but merit wins the soul. |
- |
Alexander Pope |
|
7/11/2014 |
|
Dare to err and
to dream. |
- |
Johann
Friedrich von Schiller |
|
7/14/2014 |
|
Do you have the
patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you
remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself? |
- |
Lao-Tzu |
|
7/15/2014 |
|
Don’t think or judge, just listen. |
- |
Sarah Dessen |
|
7/16/2014 |
|
Don't go
through life, grow through life. |
- |
Eric
Butterworth |
|
7/17/2014 |
|
Don't throw
away the old bucket until yo know whether the new one holds water. |
- |
Swedish Proverb |
|
7/18/2014 |
|
Even a slow
walker will arrive. |
- |
African proverb |
|
7/21/2014 |
|
First learn,
then form opinions. |
- |
Hebrew Proverb |
|
7/22/2014 |
|
First we form habits. Then they form us. |
- |
Jim Rohn |
|
7/23/2014 |
|
Generosity is
good deeds that are done quietly, inconspicuously and are immediately
forgotten. |
- |
Dave Grant |
|
7/24/2014 |
|
Go beyond
disapproving of others and improve yourself. |
- |
Unknown |
|
7/25/2014 |
|
Give thanks for
unknown blessings that are already on their way. |
- |
Native American
Saying |
|
7/28/2014 |
|
Great souls
have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. |
- |
Chinese Proverb |
|
7/29/2014 |
|
Hear much and
say little. |
- |
Irish Proverb |
|
7/30/2014 |
|
Help me to live
time, not just use it; to breathe it in, and return it in acts of love
and presence. |
- |
Unknown |
|
7/31/2014 |
|
Humility is to
make a right estimate of one's self. |
- |
Charles Haddon
Spurgeon |
|
8/1/2014 |
|
Humility leads
to strength not weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to
admit mistakes and to make amends for them. |
- |
John J. McCloy |
|
8/4/2014 |
|
Life is under
no obligation to give us what we expect. |
- |
Margaret
Mitchell |
|
8/5/2014 |
|
Like what you
do; if you don’t like it, do something else. |
- |
Paul Harvey |
|
8/6/2014 |
|
Live every day
as if it were your last. Treat everybody else as if they were you |
- |
Unknown |
|
8/7/2014 |
|
Luck is the
dividend of sweat. The more you sweat the luckier you get. |
- |
Ray Kroc |
|
8/8/2014 |
|
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- |
Douglas Adams |
|
8/11/2014 |
|
A vision worth
having is a vision worth holding on to. |
- |
Martha Bolton |
|
8/12/2014 |
|
You don’t drown
by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. |
- |
Edwin Louis
Cole |
|
8/13/2014 |
|
"I don't care,"
never got anywhere. You have to care to go somewhere in life. |
- |
Church Saufley |
|
8/14/2014 |
|
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. |
- |
John Dewey |
|
8/15/2014 |
|
Be absolutely
determined to enjoy what you do. |
- |
Gerry Sikorski |
|
8/18/2014 |
|
Be careful what you pretend to be, because you are what you pretend to
be. |
- |
Kurt Vonnegut
Jr. |
|
8/19/2014 |
|
Friends, unlike
fashions, should never change. |
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Unknown |
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8/20/2014 |
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God help the
sheep when the wolf is judge. |
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Danish Proverb |
|
8/21/2014 |
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I don't believe
in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process. |
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Oprah Winfrey |
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8/22/2014 |
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I hope that my
achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what
was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered,
that I will have given help to those who were in need, and that I will
have left the Earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been. |
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C. Hoppe |
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8/25/2014 |
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I long to
accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish
small tasks as if they were great and noble. |
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Helen Keller |
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8/26/2014 |
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I really don't
think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the
I-tried-to-do, I don't mind failure, but I can't imagine that I'd
forgive myself if I didn't try. |
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Nikki Giovanni |
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8/27/2014 |
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If one only
wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be
happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe
others to be happier than they are. |
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Montesquieu |
|
8/28/2014 |
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If there is
just one word to describe a successful person, that one word would be
attitude. |
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Unknown |
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8/29/2014 |
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If you can
learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. |
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Carolyn Gilmore |
|
9/2/2014 |
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I set out to find a friend but couldn’t find one; I set out to be a
friend, and friends were everywhere. |
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Unknown |
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9/3/2014 |
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I must admit
that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an
individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. |
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Margaret Mead |
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9/4/2014 |
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I don't run
away from a challenge because I'm afraid. Instead I run toward it
because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. |
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Nadia Comaneci |
|
9/5/2014 |
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I don't have to
be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want to be. |
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Mohammed Ali |
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9/8/2014 |
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I consider that
a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to
stock it with such furniture as you choose. |
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Arthur Conan
Doyle |
|
9/9/2014 |
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I can
understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the
glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it
does. |
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Virgillia
Pererson |
|
9/10/2014 |
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I am willing to
go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere - so long as it's forward. |
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David
Livingstone |
|
9/11/2014 |
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Hope has two
beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way
things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are. |
- |
Augustine of
Hippo |
|
9/12/2014 |
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Hope can be a
powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know
what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make
things happen, almost like magic. |
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Laini Taylor |
|
9/15/2014 |
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Hold on; hold
fast; hold out. Patience is genius. |
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George De
Buffon |
|
9/16/2014 |
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Hearts are
strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. |
- |
Ralph Bunch |
|
9/17/2014 |
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He who conquers
others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. |
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Lao-Tzu |
|
9/18/2014 |
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Having the
courage to live within one's means is respectability. |
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Benjamin
Disraeli |
|
9/19/2014 |
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Happiness is an
attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The
amount of work is the same. |
- |
Francesca
Reigler |
|
9/22/2014 |
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Great men, like
nature, use simple language. |
- |
Vauvenargues |
|
9/23/2014 |
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Good news isn't
usually as good as it sounds and bad news isn't usually as bad as it
sounds. |
- |
Steve Saunders |
|
9/25/2014 |
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Focus is a
matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do. |
- |
John Carmack |
|
9/26/2014 |
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Find the things
that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let
them go. |
- |
Lauren Oliver |
|
9/29/2014 |
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Fear and
prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming. |
- |
Susan White |
|
9/30/2014 |
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Education is
the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. |
- |
Nelson Mandela |
|
10/1/2014 |
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Each of us can
only do the best we can for as many as we can, and that will never be
good enough for those of us who care. |
- |
Rea Cord |
|
10/2/2014 |
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Do your best
everyday, and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. |
- |
Horatio W.
Dresser |
|
10/3/2014 |
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Creativity
requires the courage to let go of certainties. |
- |
Erich Fromm |
|
10/7/2014 |
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By merit, not
favoritism, shall we attain our ends. |
- |
Plout |
|
10/8/2014 |
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Between stimulus and response there is space. In that space is our power
to choose our response. In our response lie our growth and our freedom. |
- |
Victor Frankl |
|
10/9/2014 |
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Before you
speak, ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is
necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to
say should be left unsaid. |
- |
Bernard Meltzer |
|
10/9/2014 |
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Character is
the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time. |
- |
Elbert Hubbard |
|
10/10/2014 |
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Be strong. You
never know who you are inspiring. |
- |
unknown |
|
10/13/2014 |
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Before you
begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite
impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly,
naturally you would do a great deal to get rid of them, but you can't.
You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental
vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin. |
- |
Kathleen Norris |
|
10/14/2014 |
|
Being happy is
a virtue too. |
- |
Ludwig Borne |
|
10/15/2014 |
|
Chance
generally favors the prudent. |
- |
Joseph Joubert |
|
10/16/2014 |
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Comparisons of
one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will. |
|
Thornton Wilder |
|
10/17/2014 |
|
Doing what you
love means dealing with things you don't. |
- |
David Shore |
|
10/20/2014 |
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Your mind can
focus on fear, worry, negativity or despair. Or it can focus on
confidence, opportunity, solutions, optimism, and success. You decide. |
- |
Don Ward |
|
10/21/2014 |
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When you have a
great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you
only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will
finish itself. |
- |
Isak Dinesen |
|
10/22/2014 |
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When one door
of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. |
- |
Helen Keller |
|
10/23/2014 |
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When hard times
come, be a student, not a victim. |
- |
Jim Warren |
|
10/24/2014 |
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Were told every
day, "you can't change the world." But the world is changing every day.
The only question is ... who's doing it? You or somebody else? |
- |
J. Michael
Straczynski |
|
10/27/2014 |
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We're all only
fragile threads but what a tapestry we make. |
- |
Jerry Ellis |
|
10/28/2014 |
|
We tend to
forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we
don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. |
- |
Frederick
Keonig |
|
10/29/2014 |
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We have to
choose joy and keep choosing it every day. |
- |
Henri Nouwen |
|
10/30/2014 |
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We all must pay
with the current coin of life for the honey we taste. |
- |
Rachel
Blumstein |
|
10/31/2014 |
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The formula for
achieving a successful relationship is simple: You should treat all
disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as
if it were a disaster. |
- |
Quentin Crisp |
|
11/3/2014 |
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The fullness of
life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us
that can turn defeat into victory. |
- |
Edith Hamilton |
|
11/4/2014 |
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The first step
in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third
memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. |
- |
Solomon Ibn
Gabriol |
|
11/5/2014 |
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The biggest lie
in the world is They Say. |
- |
Douglas Malloch |
|
11/6/2014 |
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The best way to
have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. |
- |
Linus Pauling |
|
11/7/2014 |
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The art of
living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode
of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being
disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child must be allowed to
grow up. |
- |
Charkes L,
Morgan |
|
11/10/2014 |
|
Strong lives
are motivated by dynamic purposes. |
- |
Kenneth
Hildebrand |
|
11/11/2014 |
|
Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way. |
- |
Mary E Pearson |
|
11/12/2014 |
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Sometimes one
creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one
creates a significant impression by being silent. |
- |
The Dalai Lama |
|
11/13/2014 |
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Singleness of
purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter
what may be one's aims. |
- |
John D.
Rockefeller Jr. |
|
11/14/2014 |
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Reverence for
the past is important but so is regard for the future. |
- |
Brad Herzog |
|
11/17/2014 |
|
Respect is how
to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress. |
- |
Richard Branson |
|
11/18/2014 |
|
Respect
commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it's due. |
- |
Eldridge Clever |
|
11/19/2014 |
|
Remember that
what you believe will depend very much upon what you are. |
- |
Noah Porter |
|
11/20/2014 |
|
Pursue failure.
Failure is success's only launching pad. |
- |
Tom Peters |
|
11/21/2014 |
|
Progress always
involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. |
- |
Frederick
Wilcox |
|
11/24/2014 |
|
Freedom is not
worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. |
- |
Mahatma Gandhi |
|
11/24/2014 |
|
Problems are
not stop signs, they are guidelines. |
- |
Robert H
Schuller |
|
11/25/2014 |
|
To speak
gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and
noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven. |
- |
Johannes A.
Gaertner |
|
11/26/2014 |
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As we express
our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation, is
not to utter words, but to live them. |
- |
John F Kennedy |
|
12/1/2014 |
|
Preparation
through steady practice is the only honest avenue to achieving your
potential. |
- |
Chi Chi
Rodriguez |
|
12/2/2014 |
|
Anticipate
meeting obstacles, but also anticipate overcoming them. |
- |
Emanuel Segui |
|
12/3/2014 |
|
Anger makes you
smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. |
- |
Chere
Carter-Scott |
|
12/4/2014 |
|
All progress
takes place outside the comfort zone. |
- |
Michael John
Bobak |
|
12/5/2014 |
|
Absence is to
love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the
great. |
- |
Roger De
Bussy-Rabutin |
|
12/8/2014 |
|
Absorb what is
useful; reject what is useless; add what is specifically your own. |
|
Bruce Lee |
|
12/9/2014 |
|
Always keep
your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. |
- |
Max L. Forman |
|
12/10/2014 |
|
An apology is
the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. |
- |
Lynn Johnston |
|
12/11/2014 |
|
As long as you
feel inspired, your life is being well spent. |
- |
Hugh McLeod |
|
12/12/2014 |
|
Be patient with
yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater
investment. |
- |
Stephen R.
Covey |
|
12/15/2014 |
|
Doubts are more
cruel then the worst of truths. |
- |
Moliere |
|
12/16/2014 |
|
To err on the
side of kindness is never an error. |
- |
Liz Armbruster |
|
12/17/2014 |
|
You seldom get
what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Indecision
has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his
thinking before hand. |
- |
Maurice Switzer |
|
12/18/2014 |
|
Gracious
acceptance is an art – an art which most never bothered to cultivate. We
think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting
things, which can be much harder than giving … Accepting another
person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you. |
- |
Alexander
McCall Smith |
|
12/19/2014 |
|
Tomorrow is the
first blank page of a 365 page book. Write good one. |
- |
Brad Paisley |