Positive Quote Of The Day January 2016

[pjbs35a]

Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle, if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but, on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take interest in the things that are and are to be, and not in the things that were and are past. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear."- William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) American Politician, Religious Advocate

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."- William C. Durant (1861 - 1947) American Manufacturer, Founder of General Motors

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

[Jeff]

Very good!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American Poet and Essayist

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"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."- Ann Landers

[Jeff]

Nice!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving."- 76 Year Old Actor Robert Redford

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: Although I recently retired, so I'm not sure about the "death" part!

[pjbs35a]

:thumbsup: Although I recently retired, so I'm not sure about the "death" part!

Just keeping you on your toes!

[pjbs35a]

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American Poet and Essayist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."- e.e. Cummings

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.-- Sun Tzu

[Jeff]

Very true!

[pjbs35a]

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
English Author

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Aerodynamically a bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."- Mary Kay Ash (1915 - 2001) American Businesswoman, founder Mary Kay Cosmetics

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

"The unreasonable man attempts to adapt the world to himself. The reasonable man attempts to adapt himself to the world. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) Irish Playwright

[Jeff]

Great one!

[pjbs35a]

"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]

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[pjbs35a]

"They never talked in reactionary terms and never defined their strategies principally in response to what others were doing. They talked in terms of what they were trying to create and how they were trying to improve relative to an absolute standard of excellence."- Jim Collins, About what makes a great leader

[Jeff]

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[TheVBs]

Great quotes! Thank you for posting them, I enjoy reading them and there are days when I really need them.

[pjbs35a]

Great quotes! Thank you for posting them, I enjoy reading them and there are days when I really need them.

Pass them along and Think Positive!

[pjbs35a]

Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
— William Feather

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Howard W. Newton

[Jeff]

Great!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely" - Ronald Dahl

[Jeff]

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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) American Civil Rights Leader

[Jeff]

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"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 - 2005) American Naval Officer and Prisoner of War

[Jeff]

Amazing!

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"There's a reason I swam five straight years and didn't take a single day off. There are reasons why I swam every holiday, every Christmas, every birthday. I was trying to be as prepared as I could, and I tried to see what I could really do and what my potential was. I just really did kind of whatever it took." - Michael Phelps on what it took to become an Olympic champion (1985) American competition swimmer

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it is a memory. - Dr. Seuss

[Jeff]

Often true!

[pjbs35a]

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. - Michael Altshuler

[Jeff]

Good one!

[pjbs35a]

You don't always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens. - Mandy Hale

[Jeff]

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"Yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat."- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Scottish Novelist

[Jeff]

Excellent!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process."- Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893) American Bishop

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

"Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken, if he had brought only a part of himself to his task? The great secret of his career has been that he has flung his whole life, not a part of it, with all the determination and energy and power he could muster, into everything he has undertaken. No dillydallying, no faint-hearted efforts, no lukewarm purpose for him!"- Orison Sweet Marden (1850 - 1924) American Editor and Speaker

[Jeff]

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"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"- Robert Browning

[Jeff]

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)English Philosopher, Lawyer and Politician

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: Land Ho!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

"In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard." - Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)

[Jeff]

Love it!