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Sunday Quotes 2.28.10
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“Courage is not limited to the battlefield. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like enduring pain when the room is empty or standing alone when you’re misunderstood.” — Charles Swindoll
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Never, never, never give up. — Winston Churchill
“Be careful of the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful of the friends you choose for you will become like them.” — W. Clement Stone
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” — Albert Einstein
“The person who would like to make his dreams come true MUST STAY AWAKE.” — Richard Wheeler
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare
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Sunday Quotes 01.31.10
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There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) American civil rights leader”The one essential condition of human existence is that man should always be able to bow down before something infinitely great. If men are deprived of the infinitely great, they will not go on living and will die of despair. The Infinite and the Eternal are as essential for man as the little planet on which he dwells.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.” — Vince Lombardi
Whitewashing the pump will not purify the water. — Unknown
Circumstances! I make circumstances! — Napoleon Bonaparte
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” — Stephen Covey, Author and Speaker
“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.” — William H. Walton
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Sunday Quotes 01.24.10
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. — Denis Diderot
“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; and the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — John Wooden
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy
“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter Drucker, Businessman
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues. Fear is more responsible for failure in life than any other factor. — Winston Churchill
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Sunday Quotes 01.17.10
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“Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly… — Theodore Roosevelt
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. — William Arthur Ward
Fear usually comes as a result of ignorance. — Unknown
“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” — John Lubbock
“Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.” — James Allen
“Suppose a man should come to his dinner table, and there should be a knife laid down, and it should be told him, ‘This is the very knife that cut the throat of your child!’ If the man would use this knife as a common knife, would not everyone say, ‘Surely this man had but very little love to his child, who can use this bloody knife as a common knife!’
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Sunday Quotes 01.10.10
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It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind. — Steve Jobs
“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.” — Washington Irving
Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of it. — Unknown
No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined. — Harry E. Fosdick
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.” — Bo Bennett
“People think I’m disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.” — Luciano Pavarotti
“Trying times are not the times to stop trying.” — Ray Owen
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Sunday Quotes 08.23.09
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Either Jesus is conning 2.3 billion people who believe a lie, or he was nuts, or Jesus is who he said he was. — Unknown
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” — Paul Boese
“Forgiveness doesn’t make the other person right, it makes you free.” — Stormie Omartian
A house is not a home unless it contains food for the soul as well as for the body. — Unknown
A boss is a person who is always early when you are late and late when you are early. — Unknown
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Sunday Quotes 08.16.09
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Some people take a stand for Christ and never move again. — Unknown
One kind word can warm three winter months — Japanese Proverb
“You know it’s not a good wax museum when there are wicks sticking out of people’s heads.” — Stephanie Huddleson
“Never juggle loose swiss army knives.” — Unknown
Fear makes a man believe the worst. — Unknown
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