QUOTES

"When you come to a fork in the road, you should decide to go to the left or the right. Will you be able to make the right decision? If you do go to the right, what will be left behind? So probably going to the left will be the right decision."

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Dear optimist, Pessimist and realist,

While you guys were busy arguing about the glass of water,

I drank it.

Sincerely,

The opportunist.

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The future depends on what we do in the present. ~Mahatma Gandhi~

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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb~

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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow~

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."~ Aristotle ~

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"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."~ William Faulkner ~

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"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..."

~ Marie Beyon Ray ~

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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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"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

~ Norman Vincent Peale ~

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"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

~ Walter Bagehot ~

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"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."



~ Napoleon Hill ~

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"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."



~ St. Francis of Assisi ~

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"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

~ Leo Buscaglia ~

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"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

~ Mark Twain ~

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"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. "

~ Richard M. DeVos ~

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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

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"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

~ John Wooden ~

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"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

~ Lao Tzu ~

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"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him."







~ Aldous Huxley ~







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"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."







~ Ella Fitzgerald ~







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"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."







~ David Viscott ~







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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."







~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~







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"Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."







~ Will Durant ~







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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."







~John Updike~







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







~Mark Twain~







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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."







~William Jennings Bryan~







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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."







~Helen Hayes~







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"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."







~Napoleon Hill~







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"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it."







~William James~







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"If you want to make life easy, make it hard."







~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~
















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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."










~William E. Channing~


































"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."










~Louis Kossuth~


































"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."










~Bernice Johnson Reagon~


































"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities."










~Napoleon Bonaparte~


































"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."










~C. Malesherbes~


































"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."










~Dale Carnegie~


































"If not us, who? If not now, when?"










~Kennedy, John F.~


































"Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future."










~Rabbi Nochem Kaplan~


































"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."










~Walt Disney~


































"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."










~James Dean~


































"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big."










~Donald Trump~


































"Where there's a will there's a way."










~English Proverb~


































"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."










~Cher~


































"A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer."










~Catherine Pulsifer~


































"So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win."










~Og Mandino~


































"We will either find a way, or make one!"










~Hannibal~


































"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered."










~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer~







































"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."










~Napoleon Hill~


































"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."










~Ralph Waldo Emerson~


































"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."










~Robert G. Ingersoll~


































"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."










~Dale Carnegie~


































"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."










~Vernon Howard~


































"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you."










~Sharon Stone~


































"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."










~John Quincy Adams~


































"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."










~Abraham Lincoln~


































"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."










~Thomas Edison~


































"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."










~Winston Churchill~


































"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."










~John F. Kennedy~


































"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."










~Benjamin Franklin~


































"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."










~George W. Carver~











































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







~Mark Twain~






















































The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ~Edward R. Murrow~