Positive Quote Of The Day February 2013

[pjbs35a]

No one’s going to do something for you, and I think that’s been the thing that’s gotten me through everything. I’ve never sat around and waited for anybody to do anything for me. If I wanted to do something, I made it happen.

-- Alyssa Mastromonaco, Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Operations

[pjbs35a]

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

-- J. K. Rowling on her rocky early career and life

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

In Silicon Valley, failure is experience. Now, if you fail at everything, that's different. But a failure is a mark of experience more than anything.

-- Vint Cerf, One of the Key Creators of the Internet

[Jeff]

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But wait! I thought Al Gore invented the Internet?:confused:

[pjbs35a]

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But wait! I thought Al Gore invented the Internet?:confused:

Vint Cerf splelled sideways is Al Gore.

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Courage is Fear that has Prayed.

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American Poet

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Those who respect themselves will be honorable but he who thinks lightly of himself, will be held cheap by the world.

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

If you smile when you lose, then you win in life.

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.

-- Edwin Bearss (1923-) American Civil War Historian

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is within you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

-- Helen Hayes (b. Brown) (1900-1993) American Stage/Film Actress

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

-- Lawrence of Arabia (Thomas Edward Lawrence) (1888-1935) British Soldier, Arabist, and Writer

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

-- W. Clement Stone

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I know you can't save every dog. But you can totally try to save the dog that's in front of you.

-- Cesar Millan, aka The Dog Whisperer

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) Military Commander and 34th US President

[pjbs35a]

To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

-- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) American Author and Humorist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

-- Marcus Annaeus Seneca (60 BC-37 AD) Roman Rhetorician and Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow)
Horace/Quintus Hortius Flaccus

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade - Commenting on his 8 years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, during which he was tortured over 20 times.

-- James Stockdale (1923-) American Naval Officer and Prisoner of War

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

As the body needs physical exercise in order to remain in fit condition, man's spirit also requires the spiritual exercise derived when he confronts his problems and combats life's vicissitudes.

-- William Sahakian and Mabel Lewis Sahakian, describing the philosophy of Epictetus

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American Poet

[Jeff]

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I like it!

[pjbs35a]

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

-- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American Football Coach

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. That's the only way to get to the top.

-- Emil Zatopek (1922-) Czech Middle Distance Runner

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

My motto was to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging.

-- Hank Aaron (1934-) American Baseball Player (Retired)

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The hard-boiled hero is committed to the concept of doing the honorable thing, no matter what the consequences. He is unable to define the concept of honor, but he knows that there are things a man does and things he doesn't do.

-- Jack Lepa, a writer and bookdealer, describing the heroes of detective novels.

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Whatever job I'm doing I try to do the best I can with it and enjoy it for what it is and what it entails. I passed the time in the shoe shop by trying to be the best shoe salesman in the whole of New Jersey. The fact that I didn't succeed and ended up washing the coffee cups in the kitchen didn't really matter. I just tried to get those coffee cups the cleanest they'd ever been. Playing in the band was another job. The only difference was, I was finally doing the one thing that I had any aptitude for.

-- Jon Bon Jovi, who worked selling shoes before becoming a rock star and actor

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

We tend to make courage too dramatic. Courage is often doing something simple, unpleasant, or boring again and again until we get it down pat. People who are physically challenged and who have the determination to get around their handicaps are great examples because their courage makes them test their limits every day.

-- Dave Thomas (1932-2002) American Businessman, Founder of Wendy's International Restaurant Chain

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

-- Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Perigord (1754-1838) French Statesman

[Jeff]

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