Quotes

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

— Charles Lamb

There's magic in fighting battles beyond endurance.

— Paul Haggis

Million Dollar Baby

I will love the light for it shows me the way.  Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

— Og Mandino

Try to pursue excellence with no excuses.

— Bill Campbell

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

— William McKinley

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.  If you can dream it, you can make it so.

— Belva Davis

Coming together is a beginning.  Keeping together is progress.  Working together is success.

— Henry Ford

Light is the task where many share the toil.

— Homer

You cannot succeed by yourself.  It is hard to find a rich hermit.

— Jim Rohn

Dependent people need others to get what they want.  Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts.  Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

— Stephen Covey

I would rather fail trying than to succeed at doing nothing.

— Denis Waitley

Four short words sum up what has lifted most succesful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

— Lou Vickery

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

— Vauvenargues

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

— Alonso Newton Benn

I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

— Jennifer Yane

There is more to life than increasing it's speed.

— Mohandas K. Gandhi

Stress is an ignorant state.  It believes that everything is an emergency.

— Natalie Goldberg

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

— Lily Tomlin

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

— Anna Quindlen

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

— Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running.

The real test comes when you lose.

— Dick Vermeil

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed.

— Bernard M. Baruch

Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.

— T.S. Eliot

All you have shall same day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

— Khalil Gibran

Some people think only intellect counts; knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it.  But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

— Dean Koontz

If you do not have a dream in your pocket, run, don't walk, and find yourself a dream to become and be.

— Harry Lee Mc Ginnis

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world.  SO long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

— Helen Keller

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

— Japanese Proverb

Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom.

— Thomas Carlyle

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

— French Proverb

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations.  It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

— Karen Casey

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

— Novalis

Never hesitate to ask for help.  No one succeeds alone.

— Micheline Bouchard

Even an invisible man has a socially responsible role to play.

— Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

If you are not generous with a meager income, you will never be generous with abundance.

— Harold Nye

I tend to put my cards on the table when negotiating.  I try to get people to problem-solve together.

— Patricia Fili-Krushel

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

— unknown

Guard well your spare moments.  They are like uncut diamonds.  Discard them, and their value will never be known.  Improve them, and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time never stops to rest, never hesitates, never looks forward or backward.  Life's raw material spends itself now, this moment--which is why how you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.

— Denis Waitley

Time is a finite resource, and we all place infinite demands on it.  I view time as an oportunity, as a chance to make choices about how I spend that resource--because it is our choice.  And that's something people often forget.

— Maggie Wilderotter

Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful, lest you let other people spend it for you.

— Carl Sandburg

It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first.  It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!

— Mark Victor Hansen

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

— Colin Wilson

Ordinary people believe only in the possible.  Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.  And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

— Cherie Carter-Scott

I like Thinking Big.  If you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well Think Big.

— Donald Trump

Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.

— Orson Swett Marden

Consult not your fears, but your hopes and dreams.  Think not about your frustations, but about your unfillfilled potential.  Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do.

— Pope John XXIII

Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds, and these magents attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

— Napoleon Hill

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