My favourite
positive quotations; |
What they said
in their time, for you to hear now. |
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"If you have knowledge, let
others light their candles at it".
Margaret Fuller.
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"There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about
things that are beyond the power of our will."
Epitectus. |
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"No obstacles fell in
his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he
sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled
from no danger through cowardice".
J.
P. Morgan
(writing about Napoleon Bonaparte). |
"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: Find what it is that
interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your soul
into it with every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you
have." John D. Rockefeller. |
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"We make a living by what we get; we make a
life by what we give".
Apocryphal. |
"Do the right thing, it will gratify some people and
astonish the rest".
Mark Twain. |
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"It's kind of fun to do the impossible".
Walt Disney. |
Nothing great will ever be
achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are
determined to be so. General Charles De Gaulle. |
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| Hell, there are no rules
here, we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas Alva Edison. |
Nothing can stop the man
with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth
can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson.
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| Failure is the opportunity
to begin again more intelligently. Moshe Arens. |
Take a chance! All life is
a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is
willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie. |
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| Every morning is a fresh
beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is
my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come
to this day. This moment, this day, is as good as any moment in all
eternity. I shall make of this day; each moment of this day, a heaven on
earth. This is my day of opportunity. Dan Custer. |
Life is often compared to
a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches
of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the
opportunity to perform at our best. Michael Johnson. |
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| Great opportunities to
help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. Sally Koch.
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Never give up. If you want
to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never
say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals,
That's what life is made of. Mike McLaren. |
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| If you hear a different
drummer; dreamer, take a chance. The road you choose to travel means the
difference in the dance. D. Morgan. |
A guide for life; truisms that
matter on pictures that inspire.
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