Positive Quote Of The Day May 2014

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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

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Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.-- Earl Douglas Haig (1861-1928) British General and Commander of the Expeditionary Force in World War I

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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

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It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted.-- Marie O'Connor

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When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter then they are.-- R. H. Grant

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

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It is a hard rule of life, and I believe a healthy one, that no great plan is ever carried out without meeting and overcoming endless obstacles that come up to try the skill of a man's hand, the quality of his courage, and the endurance of his faith.-- Donald Douglas (1892-1981) American, Founder Douglas Aircraft Company, later McDonnell Douglas

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Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.-- Thomas Edison

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Did Edison really say hustle?

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Did Edison really say hustle?

Not only did he say it, he did The Hustle. Are you old enough to remember The Hustle?

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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.-- Henry Fielding (1707-1754) British Playwright and Novelist

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity...Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.— Melodie Beattie

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To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
— Bernard Edmonds

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa

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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.— Mary Catherine Bateson

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A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure.
— Bernard Iddings Bell

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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back.
That's real glory. That's the essence of it.-- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) American Football Coach

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Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions -- not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy -- but forming and informing them as art.-- Allan Bloom (1930-1992) American Academic and Author

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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

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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
— Bahaullah

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We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.— Unknown

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Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.-- Edward R. Lyman

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

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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
— Mikhail Bakunin

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The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.-- George Macdonald (1824-1905) Scottish Novelist and Clergyman

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

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Memorial Day

- Joyce Kilmer

The bugle echoes shrill and sweet,
But not of war it sings to-day.
The road is rhythmic with the feet
Of men-at-arms who come to pray.

The roses blossom white and red
On tombs where weary soldiers lie;
Flags wave above the honored dead
And martial music cleaves the sky.

Above their wreath-strewn graves we kneel,
They kept the faith and fought the fight.
Through flying lead and crimson steel
They plunged for Freedom and the Right.

May we, their grateful children, learn
Their strength, who lie beneath this sod,
Who went through fire and death to earn
At last the accolade of God.

In shining rank on rank arrayed
They march, the legions of the Lord;
He is their Captain unafraid,
The Prince of Peace...Who brought a sword.

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.-- James A. Garfield

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My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.-- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929) Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in 1918

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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

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Never neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening. It may be -- usually is, in fact -- a false alarm that leads to nothing, but it may on the other hand be the clue provided by fate to lead you to some important advance.
-- Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), British microbioligist who discovered penicillin.

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