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- I will persist until I succeed.
Henceforth, I will consider each day's effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak. The first blow
may cause not a tremor in the wood, nor the second, nor the third. Each blow, of itself, may be trifling, and
seem of no consequence. Yet from childish swipes the oak will eventually tumble. So it will be with my
efforts of today.
--Og Mandino
- Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them...they are
liable to spring upon you; but...if you look them squarely in they eye, they will slink out of sight.
--Orison Swett Marden
- The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
--John F. Kennedy
- Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead and the unborn could do it no better.
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry; like Beethoven
composed music; sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street
sweeper, who swept his job well".
--Martin Luther King Jr.
- Over 2,000 years ago, the philosopher, Cicero, compiled a list of what he considered to be man's most common and most serious mistakes.
Looking them over, you may agree that time has only added gravity to Cicero's charge that we err by:
- The delusion that individual advancement is made by crushing others.
- The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
- Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it ourselves.
- Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
- Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
- Neglecting development and refinement of the mind.
- The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
--Unknown
- A big handicap is a small fault that was neglected.
--Unknown
- The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
--Og Mandino
- I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.
--Og Mandino
- The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs."
--Norman Vincent Peale
- When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
--Plato
- I am the wisest man in Athens because I know I don't know. I am only singularly ignorant. The rest of the citizens are twice ignorant. They think they know, but they still don't know.
--Plato
- Continue on - because when growth stops decay begins.
--Unknown
- I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
--Louisa May Alcott
- It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
--mahatma ghandi
- One should first establish oneself in what is proper, and then instruct others. A wise who acts in this way shall never get defiled.
--Unknown
- One moment of patience may ward off great disaster, one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
--Unknown
- It isn't the job we intended to do, or the labor we've just begun, that puts us right on the ledger sheet. Its the work we have really done.
--Unknown
- The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
--Unknown
- Crime begins in the mind. A man has to think wrong before he acts wrong.
--Unknwn
- Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
--Unknown
- It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.
--Confucius
- Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
--Lawrence J. Peter
- It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
--Theodore Roosevelt
- They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
--Edmund Burke
- Be always displeased at what thou art if thou desire to attain what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
--Unknown
- The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness;
To an oponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart;
To your child, a good example; to a father, reverence;
To your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
To yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
--Unknown
- They witness best who witness with their lives.
--Unknown
- Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
--Henry Ward Beecher
- We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
--English proverb
- What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
--Alexandra Stoddard
- There is a loftier ambition than to merely stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
--Unknown
- Becoming a star may not be in your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves."
--Bryan Lindsay
- Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes form in action; actions form in habbits; habbits decide character; and character fixes destiny.
--Unknown
- I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not differ or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
--William Penn
- Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for its better to be alone than in bad company.
--Unknown
- Forgetfullness is a virtue only when you can remember the right things to forget.
--Unknown
- Be careful how you live you may be the only Bible some person ever reads.
--Unknown
- Adoptability to one's partner's taste is even more important in successful marriage than similarity of tastes and habits.
--Unknown
- A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
--Unknown
- If someone were to pay you 10 cents for every kind word you ever spoke about people, and collect 5 cents for every unkind word, would you be rich?
--Unknown
- The only safe and sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend.
--Abraham Lincoln
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
--Unknown
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