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Some Great Quotes

 

  • No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.        - unknown

     

  • To accomplish great things, we must not only dream, but act.        - Bill Blackman

     

  • Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.        - unknown

     

  • Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.        - unknown

     

  • What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.        - Dwight D. Eisenhower

     

  • To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.        - Oliver Wendell Holmes

     

  • If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.        - unknown

     

  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.        - unknown

     

  • He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.        - unknown

     

  • When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.        - Franklin D. Roosevelt

     

  • Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

     

  • It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.        - Seneca

     

  • Never, never, never give up.        - Winston Churchill

     

  • Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.        - unknown

     

  • Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.        - unknown

     

  • People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.        - George Allen

     

  • It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.        - unknown

     

  • The successful man is the average man, focused.        - unknown

     

  • 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

     

  • Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.        - John Wooden

     

  • Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actually doing of it ... we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.        --Aristotle, Ethics

     

  • You haven't failed until you quit trying.        - unknown

     

  • Success is the proper utilization of failure.        - unknown

     

  • You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.        - unknown

     

  • I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.        - Thomas A. Edison

     

  • We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.        - unknown

     

  • How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.        - unknown

     

  • It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.        - unknown

     

  • The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.        - John F. Kennedy

     

  • Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.        - unknown

     

  • If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.        - unknown

     

  • Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?" I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?"          - George Bernard Shaw

     

  • If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.        - unknown

     

  • Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"        - unknown

     

  • Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.        - Japanese Proverb

     

  • Attitude determines altitude.        - unknown

     

  • You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.        - unknown

     

  • You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.        - unknown

     

  • A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.        - unknown (Dale Carnegie?)

     

  • People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.        - unknown

     

  • The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.        - unknown

     

  • Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.        - unknown

     

  • I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.        - Jesus (Matthew, 17:20b - 21, NIV)

     

  • To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.        - Kahlil Gibran

     

  • Pep without purpose is piffle.        - unknown

     

  • Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following

  • them, you reach your destiny.        - Carl Schurz

     

  • Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.        - Henry Ford

     

  • If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.        - unknown

     

  • Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes... but that would be a mistake.        - unknown

     

  • There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.        - Emmanuel

     

  • To win without risk is to triumph without glory.        - Pierre Corneille

     

  • He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.        - unknown

     

  • Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.        - Theodore Roosevelt

     

  • A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.        - unknown

     

  • Don't fear, just live right.        - Neal A. Maxwell

     

  • Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.        - unknown

     

  • We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.        - Sister Busche

     

  • Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.        - unknown

     

  • A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.        - unknown

     

  • A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.        - unknown

     

  • A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.        - unknown

     

  • The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.        - unknown

     

  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.        - Albert Einstein

     

  • He who flings mud, loses a lot of ground.        - unknown

     

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.        - Eleanor Roosevelt

     

  • In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.        - Brian Weir

     

  • Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.        - Jean Sibelius

     

  • Keep away from 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

     

  • At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.        - Hudson newsletter

     

  • The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.        - unknown

     

  • Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.        - unknown

     

  • Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.        - unknown

     

  • There is only one rule to become a good talker, learn how to listen.        - unknown

     

  • He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.        - Tom J. Connelly

     

  • Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.        - unknown

     

  • When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.        - Alexander Graham Bell

     

  • Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.        - St. Francis De Sales

     

  • And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.        - Abraham Lincoln

     

  • One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.         - Dick Gregor

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