Positive Quote Of The Day April 2012

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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

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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, born 1918

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

-- Vincent Van Gogh

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

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's calling, Harry Truman!

[pjbs35a]

The Buck Stops Here!

[pjbs35a]

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

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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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw




HE IS RISEN!

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

-- Donald A. Adams

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death.

-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.

-- Daniel Webster

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Students gain lasting self-confidence not by being protected from failure but by learning they can survive it.

-- Tony Wagner, teacher and author

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

-- William Mather Lewis

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

-- Frank Knox

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson


I will be Traveling for a few days. Think Positive until I return.

See you at the Dodgers game Monday night.

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

-- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man.

-- W. Russell Bowie

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[Princess'Mom]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[pjbs35a]

Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery...It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.

-- Passage from Life of Christ

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet

[Jeff]

Just don't get lost!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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