"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948) Home run king in American baseball. Also, strike out king.
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Writer best known for his adventurous, "macho" lifestyle and books such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "A Farewell to Arms", and "The Sun Also Rises"
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"Every experience is a form of exploration"- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West
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"I'd like to be remembered as someone who tried to do the decent thing. Mainly that comes down to how you treat people. If you take out your frustration on people, that's not doing the decent thing. If you treat someone differently because they're worth more money - that's not doing the decent thing."- Martin Short (B - 1950) Canadian-American comedian, actor, singer and writer
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. - Diogenes Laertius
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir
I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience. - Halle Berry
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"When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up."- John Peterman (B - 1941) American catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates The J. Peterman Company.
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"You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside."- Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros (1888 - 1971) Uruguayan poet who served as Uruguayan Consul in the Italian city of Florence.
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"We will all experience disappointments and crushing events somewhere along the way, setbacks for which there is no "reason"; no one to blame. It might be a disease; it might be injury; it might be an accident; it might be losing a loved one; it might be getting swept away in a political shake up; it might be getting shot down over Vietnam and thrown into a POW camp for 8 years. What separates people, James Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulties, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."- James C. Collins (B - 1958) American author