Positive Quote Of The Day November 2012

[pjbs35a]

Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

-- Harold E. Stassen

[Jeff]

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Good to have you back Frankie!

[pjbs35a]

Good to be back.

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation – these are the great values of life. We can’t prove them, or explain them, yet they are
the most stable things in our lives.

-- Jesse Herman Holmes

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

-- Thomas Robert Gaines

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

-- W.J. Slim


Headed to Billings, MT for a few days. Think Positive until I return!

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

-- General George S. Patton

[pjbs35a]

No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice.

-- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

-- Elbert Hubbard

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul.

-- From an old English prayer.

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-- English proverb

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

-- Japanese proverb

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.-- Terence

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

-- C.A. Beard

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

-- John Andrew Holmes

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

-- Hindu proverb

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.

-- Duguet

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

-- Portuguese proverb

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

-- John Quincy Adams

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.

-- William Faulkner (1897-1962) American Writer

[pjbs35a]

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English Poet

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your waking hours.

-- Beatrice Vincent

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

-- Jean de la Fontaine

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.

-- W.J. Davison

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

-- Lady Bird Johnson (1912- ) American First Lady

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

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

-- Mary Lou Cook

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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