Positive Quote Of The Day June 2013

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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through -then follow through.

-- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) American Aviator and Business Executive

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[pjbs35a]

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong

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[pjbs35a]

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.-- James Allen

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[pjbs35a]

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.-- Orison Swett Marden

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[pjbs35a]

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.— George Washington

[Jeff]

Great advice!

[pjbs35a]

Many a friendship -- long, loyal, and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

-- Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) English Priest and Hymn Writer

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.--Mahatma Gandhi

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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist

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You cannot create experience; you undergo it.
-- Albert Camus

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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.-- Nora Roberts

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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
-- Robert Cushing (Robert Cushing Dennison) (1921-1998) American Colonel

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When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.
-- Thomas Carlyle

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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-- Tagore

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Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.
-- Marcus Aurelius

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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician

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I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see."
-- Dick Fosbury, who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.


HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

[pjbs35a]

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
-- Thomas Carlyle

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[pjbs35a]

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased.-- Emerson

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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.-- William Dean Howells



I will be traveling for several days. Think Positive till I return!

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes
heroes.

-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister

[Jeff]

Very true!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
-- Winston Churchill

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[pjbs35a]

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
Jim Rohn

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"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
Mark Twain

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We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.-- T.S. Eliot


Back from Connecticut to the heat and humidity of South Louisiana!

[Jeff]

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.-- George Washington Carver

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Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
-- Carl Schurz

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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do. — Johann Von Goethe

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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.-- William Faulkner

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[pjbs35a]

The first and most important step toward...success is the feeling that we can succeed.-- Nelson Boswell

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