Positive Quote Of The Day April 2016

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"You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th President of the United States

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Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. - Jim Rohn

[Jeff]

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"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."- David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) American, University President, Author

[Jeff]

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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) Third President of the United States

[Jeff]

Great!

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"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America."- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States

[Jeff]

I fear many have forgotten!

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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."
- Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) British Theologian and Classicist

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Writer and Statesman

[Jeff]

Nice thought for the day!

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"So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America."- Thomas Wolfe

[Jeff]

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"Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline."- William L. Shirer (1904-1993) American Journalist and Historian

[Jeff]

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"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."- Paul Goodman

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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better."- Harry S. Truman

[Jeff]

"America needs you, Harry Truman."

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley

[Jeff]

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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."- Lord Alfred Tennyson

[Jeff]

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"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, wracked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."- Agatha Christie

[Jeff]

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"Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience."- Robert Packwood

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small by his own will."
- J.C.F. von Schiller

[Jeff]

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"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."- Aristotle

[Jeff]

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"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

[Jeff]

Great point and hence my disdain for committee meetings!

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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910) American Author and Humorist

[Jeff]

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"A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us."- Maltbie Babcock (1858 - 1901) American Presbyterian Minister

[Jeff]

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know? One who doesn't try cannot fail and become wise.-- William Saroyan

[Jeff]

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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

[Jeff]

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

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The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time - which means overreaching them.-- Juan Ramon Jimenez

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"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."

- Alistair Cooke (1906 - 2004)
British Journalist, Television Host

In California for a few days for business. Drove by Disneyland yesterday and all I could do was wave. Sad day.

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"A hero is a man who does what he can."

- Romain Rolland

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well."

- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
English Author

Heading back to Louisiana without a Mickey sighting.

[Jeff]

True enough!

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"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
English Poet


Back in the Land Of Crawfish!

[Jeff]

Nice!

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"He who every morning plans out the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
French Writer

[Jeff]

That's a lot of planning!

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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American Writer

[Jeff]

Too true!