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"Important principles may and must be inflexible." Abraham Lincoln
"No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention" Abraham Lincoln
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle.
"I am the problem, I am the solution." Nick Murray
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one." Benjamin Franklin
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." George S. Patton
"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." G. W. F. Hegel
"He who has a WHY to live for can bear with almost any HOW." Nietzsche
"no other success in life can compensate for failure in the home." David O. McKay, 1873-1970
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant." Anne Bradstreet - Meditation Divine
"Happiness doesn't depend on what we have but how we feel towards what we have." William Dempster Howard
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. " Jim Ryun
"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best." Marva Collins
"Be who you are and say how you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind" - Dr.Seuss
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think." Benjamin Disraeli
"Above all to thine own self be true." William Shakespeare
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." Henry David Thoreau
"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow." Gen. George S. Patton
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." Sir Winston Churchill
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will." Vince Lombardi
"A constructive life is built on the things we do – not the things we don’t do. Never forget that the only material which can be used in building a life is positive action." Cavett Robert
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It’s never too late to be who you might have been." George Eliot
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato
"The best cure for a sluggish mind is to disturb its routine." William H. Danforth
"When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do." Charles M. Schwab
"Worry is a misuse of the imagination." Dan Zadra
"Without vision, we perish."
"Money is an essential ingredient to happiness in this world." Alexander Hamilton
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." Frank Lloyd Wright
"For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." Thomas Jefferson
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." Albert Einstein
"The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character." Theodore Roosevelt
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." James Baldwin
"A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it." Ken Adelman
"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are; your reputation is merely what others think you are." John Wooden
"Sow a thought and you reap an act. Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny." Anonymous
"One man with courage makes a majority." Andrew Jackson
"No man was ever great by imitation." Johnson
"Altitude is due more to attitude than intellect."
"The reason alot of people don't recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work." Thomas Edison
"However you build it, the ship must sail. You can't explain to the ocean."
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa
"I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end." Abraham Lincoln
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." Cicero
"Whatever you are be a good one." Abraham Lincoln
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving." Goethe
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." Robert F. Kennedy
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates
"Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. " Horace
"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye
"Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess." John W. Gardner (1912-2002) Founder of citizens’ rights organization Common Cause
"The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old." Rosalyn S. Yalow
"I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist." Paul Harvey
"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it's what the man or woman is able to do that counts." Booker T. Washington
"First we will be best, and then we will be first." Grant Tinker (American TV Executive)
"The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible." Norman Cousins
"Peace of mind is knowing that you have done your best." John Wooden
"Move quickly but don't hurry." John Wooden
Ham and Eggs Breakfast "The chicken is involved but the pig is committed." Major Robert (Bob) Munhall
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