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Posts: 4,498 5/22/13 11:38 A
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. James M. Barrie
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. Anatole France
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened. John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Act as if it were impossible to fail. Dorothea Brande
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Posts: 4,498 5/21/13 8:42 A
If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance. Orville Wright
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do. James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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Posts: 4,498 5/20/13 8:54 A
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L.Smith
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Secretary of Defense
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The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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The only joy in the world is to begin. Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing. Albanian Proverb
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
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Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Robert Orben
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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. King Whitney Jr.
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It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn. Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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The most profound statements are often said in silence. Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones
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Posts: 4,498 5/17/13 9:29 A
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tom Robbins
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises. Mae West
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. Sydney J. Harris
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By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852)
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. Paul Dudley White
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Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived. Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
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Posts: 4,498 5/15/13 9:59 A
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily. Zig Ziglar
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Basho
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
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I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. New York City detective
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Posts: 4,498 5/14/13 9:26 A
When quitting is no longer an option, you're half way there. Unknown
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A lack of exercise robs the body of an essential ingredient. Karen Sessions
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. Dick Cavett (1936 - )
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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough Mario Andretti (1940 - )
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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness. Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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Posts: 4,498 5/13/13 9:34 A
Your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome troubles. Maya Angelou
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. Lin Yutang
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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The way we see the problem is the problem. Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Gift From the Sea'
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. German Proverb
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One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to? Tom Hanks (1956 - ), Esquire, June 2006
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)
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The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Foster's Law
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You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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It is better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Richard Cumberland
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Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett
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Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. Lillian Eichler Watson
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Joaquin Setanti
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We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. May Sarton
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I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got. Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A 'Vogue' Idea, 2002
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity. Ilya Prigogine (1917 - )
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
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