Positive Quote Of The Day March 2013

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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.-- Alistair Cooke (1906-) British Journalist, Television Host

[Jeff]

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

-- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) American Author and Humorist

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In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

-- Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American Presbyterian Minister

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

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Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody has thought.

-- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1898-1986) Hungarian Biochemist 1937 Nobel Prize for Physiology

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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in.

-- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) American 17th President of the United States

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[pjbs35a]

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

-- William James (1842-1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

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[pjbs35a]

If I have any message from this then it is if you really have a dream and you want to achieve it then you can and it really is possible."

-- Ellen MacArthur, quoted after breaking all single-handed woman's records and finishing second in round the world yacht race. February 11th, 2001

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Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

-- Kevin Costner (1955-) American Actor, Producer and Director

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Honour, worthily obtained, is in its nature a personal thing, and incommunicable to any but those who had some share in obtaining it.

-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American Statesman and Scientist

[Jeff]

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Wealth still failed to impress him; the purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which was useful and interesting.

-- H. W. Brands, in his biography of Benjamin Franklin.

[Jeff]

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American Civil Rights Leader

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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American Physicist

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:good one

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Do not wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it.
Author Unknown

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

-- Robert Schuller (1926-) American Minister, Evangelist

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[pjbs35a]

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
Colin Powell

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This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan

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Things that hurt, instruct.
Benjamin Franklin

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“Life’s problems wouldn’t be called “hurdles” if there wasn’t a way to get over them.” - Author Unknown

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma Gandhi

[Jeff]

Excellent!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Henry Ward Beecher

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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

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It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.
Charles Austin Bates

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Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Swedish Proverb

[Jeff]

Good one:thumbsup: