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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from
distress, and grow brave by reflection.

- Thomas Paine

Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose.

– Lance Armstrong

If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

– Marie Curie

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.

- Michelangelo

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

– Marcus Aurelius

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow – it empties today of strength.

- Corrie ten Boom

You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

– Ray Bradbury

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

– Warren Buffett

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

– Martin Luther King Jr.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

– Marcus Aurelius

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

– Flora Whittemore

The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.

– Ben Herbster

The important thing is this: To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

- Charles Dubois

I wake up, I pinch myself. “Ok, today is the day, Jeff. Use today. Try to do something remarkable. Don’t waste it.”

-Jeff Koons, Artist

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame…

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay Hungry.  Stay Foolish.

- Steve Jobs (view the speech)

Smooth seas don’t make skillful sailors.

- African Proverb

Courage is just fear delayed another moment.

- Gen. George S. Patton

Just because you sell a lot of something doesn’t mean that it’s good. McDonalds sells a lot of hamburgers.

- Ahmet Ertegün (Atlantic Records exec)

Worrying is the same thing as banging your head against the wall. It only feels good when you stop.

- John Power

Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

- John Maynard Keynes

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

Victory has a hundred fathers, defeat is an orphan.

- John F. Kennedy

You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.

- Albert Einstein

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

- Moliere

You either tell your story or someone is going to tell it for you.

- Old Saying

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- General George S. Patton

Success doesn’t come to you, you go get it.

- Marva Collins

The world belongs to the energetic!

- Rev Run

If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

- Thomas Edison

Your attitude is your thought life turned inside out.

- Joyce Meyers

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

If I want to be as successful as I want to be, I have to be thinking about it all the time.

- Michael Phelps

The years teach much which the days never knew.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

-Jack Dixon

“Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want”

“When you’re doing a bad job and nobody points it out to you, that’s when they’ve given up on you.”

“Don’t complain, just work harder.”

- Dr. Randy Pausch

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Big jobs go to the people who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

- Theodore Roosevelt

Man built most nobly when limitations were at their greatest.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

The following “I promise…” statements were sent to me by a colleague some time ago. I find this quote to be a very valuable read from time-to-time.

• I promise to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.
• I promise to talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet.
• I promise to make all of my friends feel that there is something in them.
• I promise to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true.
• I promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
• I promise to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own.
• I promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
• I promise to wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature I meet a smile.
• I promise to give so much time to the improvement of myself that I have no time to criticize others.
• I promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the persistence of trouble.
• I promise to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds.
• I promise to live in faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me.

~ Christian D Larson
Your Forces and How to Use Them 1912