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Sunday Quotes 2.28.10
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.” — Charles Swindoll
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Never, never, never give up. — Winston Churchill
“Be careful of the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful of the friends you choose for you will become like them.” — W. Clement Stone
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” — Albert Einstein
“The person who would like to make his dreams come true MUST STAY AWAKE.” — Richard Wheeler
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare
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Sunday Quotes 02.07.10
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill
“If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then the world is yours and all that’s in it.” — Rudyard Kipling
“Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.” — William Ralph
“Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it immediately.” — Stephen R. Covey
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Darrell Royal
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Sunday Quotes 01.31.10
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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) American civil rights leader”The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great. If men are deprived of the infinitely great, they will not go on living and will die of despair. The Infinite and the Eternal are as essential for man as the little planet on which he dwells.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” — Vince Lombardi
Whitewashing the pump will not purify the water. — Unknown
Circumstances! I make circumstances! — Napoleon Bonaparte
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” — Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker
“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” — William H. Walton
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Sunday Quotes 01.24.10
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. — Denis Diderot
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; and the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — John Wooden
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter Drucker, Businessman
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues. Fear is more responsible for failure in life than any other factor. — Winston Churchill
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Sunday Quotes 01.17.10
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“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly… — Theodore Roosevelt
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward
Fear usually comes as a result of ignorance. — Unknown
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” — John Lubbock
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.” — James Allen
“Suppose a man should come to his dinner table, and there should be a knife laid down, and it should be told him, ‘This is the very knife that cut the throat of your child!’ If the man would use this knife as a common knife, would not everyone say, ‘Surely this man had but very little love to his child, who can use this bloody knife as a common knife!’
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Sunday Quotes 01.10.10
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It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind. — Steve Jobs
“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.” — Washington Irving
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of it. — Unknown
No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. — Harry E. Fosdick
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” — Bo Bennett
“People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.” — Luciano Pavarotti
“Trying times are not the times to stop trying.” — Ray Owen
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Sunday Quotes 01.03.10
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“The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” — Stephen Covey
People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I do not 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 cannot find them, they make them. — George Bernard Shaw
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.” — William James
“Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — St. Francis of Assisi
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention. — Larry Winget
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Sunday Quotes 12.27.09
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Adversity introduces a man to himself. — Anonymous
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. — Marie Curie
Well done is better than well said. — Benjamin Franklin
If you stay ready, you ain’t gotta get ready. — Will Smith
“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.” ~Lisa Kirk
“We must do that which we think we cannot.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. — Voltaire
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Sunday Quotes 12.20.09
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop peddling.” — Claude D. Pepper
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either-but right through every human heart.” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
The cost of failure is greater than the cost of success. — Unknown
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. — Thomas Huxley
In surrender, you begin to really live the life God intended: “Only those who throw away their lives for my sake and for the sake of the Good News will ever know what it means to really live” (Mark 8:35 LB).
Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson
“There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.” — Hugh Prather
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Sunday Quotes 12.13.09
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“I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.” — Dolly Parton
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.” — George Woodberry
“The years teach much which the days never knew.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.” — Woody Hayes
“Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.” — William Safire
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Unknown
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