Positive Quote Of The Day October 2015

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Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.-- Roger Bannister, after becoming the first person to break the four minute mile, 1952.

[Jeff]

Funny!
Welcome to October!

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.-- Dale Carnegie

[Jeff]

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The past cannot be changed. The future is still in your power.-- Hugh Lawson White (1773-1840) American Politician

[Jeff]

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All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

[Jeff]

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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.-- Joseph Conrad

[Jeff]

Excellent advice.:thumbsup:

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I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.-- Arthur Warwick

[Jeff]

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)

[Jeff]

I'm enthusiastic about comfort and luxury!:thumbsup:

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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there.- Max Lerner (1902 - 1992)

[pjbs35a]

I'm enthusiastic about comfort and luxury!:thumbsup:

Including the Game Day Recliner!!

[Jeff]

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there.- Max Lerner (1902 - 1992)

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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.-- Henry Ward Beecher

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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.-- Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American Author and Speaker

[Jeff]

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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- Bishop W.C. Magee

[Jeff]

Very true!:thumbsup:

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Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.- Henry Ward Beecher

[Jeff]

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Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.- Mary Lou Cook

[Jeff]

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Worry ends where faith begins.

[Jeff]

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?- Katharine Graham (1917 - 2001)

[Jeff]

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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]

I wish our politicians believed this!

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"What do the right people want more than almost anything else? They want to be part of a winning team. They want to contribute to producing visible, tangible results. They want to feel the excitement of being involved in something that just flat out works."- Jim Collins

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) American Philosopher and Writer

[Jeff]

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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.— Oprah Winfrey

[Jeff]

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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.- David Hume (1711 - 1776)Scottish Philosopher and Historian

[Jeff]

Nice!

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"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."

- F.W. Faber

[Jeff]

Excellent thought!:thumbsup:

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"The true rewards of leadership come from striving to look up to a higher moral standard..Good leaders sometimes, in fact, quite often, lose in the material world. They go right ahead anyway, knowing that they are going to lose. Are they tilting at windmills? Do they have a 'can't do' attitude instead of a 'can-do' attitude? Of course not. They are committed to defending the right values. And the right values are seldom safe, easy, or advantageous."- H. Norman Schwarzkopf

[Jeff]

Thanks!

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"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." Bruce Fairchild Barton (1886 - 1967) American Advertising Executive

[Jeff]

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." - J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) English Author

[Jeff]

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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Poet

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"The world has battle-room for all. Go fight and conquer if ye can. But if ye rise or if ye fall, Be each, pray God, a gentleman"- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) British Novelist

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"The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received."- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

[Jeff]

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"The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all."- Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) American Pediatrician and Author

[Jeff]

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"The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence."- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973) American Aviator and Business Executive

[Jeff]

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"Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far."- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright

[Jeff]

Good one!