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We see possibilities in others, but do we ever dream of the possibilities within ourselves? -Unknown
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. -Unknown
You can let bad times make you bitter --or better. -Unknown
You can't hug your kids too much. -Unknown
A flute, with no holes, is not a flute. A donut, without a hole, is a danish. -Chevy Chase in Caddy Shack
Ok seriously, I'll post some when it comes to me.
"It is not so much that you use your mind wrongly--you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease."--Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
If a man does his best, what else is there? -General George S Patton
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Bach, Mozart settled down day after day to the job at hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration -E Newman
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Things do not happen; things are made to happen -John F Kennedy
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees -J Willard Marriot
Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure -Thomas Peters
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them -Walt Disney
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Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream -Robert Greenleaf
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination -Tommy Lasorda
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to something until you get there -Josh Billings
Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up -Thomas Edison
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Nothing can stop a man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude -W.W.Ziege
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain -Dolly Parton
Courgage is not hte absence of fear; rather it is the ability to take action in the face of fear -Nancy Anderson
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Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere -Evan Esar
You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember, nothing works unless you do -Nido Qubein
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. -Thomas Jefferson
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun -Katherine Hepburn
How odd of God
To Choose the Jews. Odgen Nash
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to produce the occasional bon mot. Balzac
I like young girls. Their stories are shorter. Thomas McGuane
I belong to Bridegroom's Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat, fuzzy slippers, and curlers to burn my toast. Dick Martin
When a woman behaves like a man, why can't she behave like a nice man? Dame Evans
Men are those creatures that have two legs and eight hands. Marilyn Monroe
Shall I stop now?
Francois
If someone says "It's not the money, it's the principle," it's the money. - Angelo Valenti
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. - Josephine Tey
How come it's a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents' worth in? Somebody's making a penny. - Steven Wright
And a poem:
I'm tired of Love:
I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
- Hilaire Belloc
Really, on a personal level - "Live and Let Live" would be my favorite goal.
waiting
Learning new things won't help the person who isn't using what he already knows, -Anonymous
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -Mark Twain
Don't be discouraged by failure. Failure, in a sense, is the highway to success because every discovery of what is false leads us to seek after what is true. And every fresh experience points out an error which we shall, afterwards, carefully avoid. -John Keats
