Positive Quote Of The Day August 2014

[pjbs35a]

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.— Harry S. Truman

[Jeff]

Good one!
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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. -- Boxing trainer Cus D'Amato to 13 year old Mike Tyson

[pjbs35a]

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.-- Danish proverb

[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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[jsnolea12]

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[pjbs35a]

Wealth is the slave of the wise man and master of the fool.-- Seneca, Roman philosopher

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

My idea of the modern stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.-- Nassim Taleb

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

A life full of enthusiasm, hope and contributions through one's own talent is a life well lived.— Kimberly Day

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -- William Bruce Cameron

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

If you are patient in one moment of anger you will save a thousand days of sorrow. -- Unknown

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:very true!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Laughter is inner jogging.-- Norman Cousins

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world.-- Paul Harding

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

One climbs a mountain not to conquer it, but to be lifted away from the earth up into the sky.-- Climber and Writer Russell Banks

[pjbs35a]

Who begins too much accomplishes little.-- German Proverb

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.-- W. Clement Stone

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.-- Lord Alfred Tennyson

[pjbs35a]

We have failed to recognize our one great asset: time. A conscientous use of it could make us into something quite amazing.-- Friedrich Schiller, German writer (1759-1805)

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.— Sasha Azevedo

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.-- Epictetus

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

No home is complete without affection. You can have all the Picassos in the world or walls made of gold, but without affection it's nothing.-- Claudio Luti, CEO of furniture company Kartell

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

People tend to think of happiness as a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.-- Elizabeth Gilbert

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I like a man who attempts the impossible.-- J.P. Morgan

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.-- Novelist Henry James

[Jeff]

What if I imagine I am rich?

[pjbs35a]

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.— Oprah Winfrey

[pjbs35a]

What if I imagine I am rich?

Then you are!

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.-- Ronald Reagan

[Jeff]

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America needs you, Ronald Reagan!

[pjbs35a]

Being a father is the only thing that lives up to the hype. When I'm with my daughter - when we're doing homework together or hanging out watching a movie or kicking a soccer ball around or doing any of the things we do - that's the only time I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.-- Aaron Sorkin, TV writer

[pjbs35a]

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America needs you, Ronald Reagan!

Affirmative!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A man who makes no mistakes makes nothing.-- Winston Churchill

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.-- Psychologist Robert Sternberg

[Jeff]

Very true!:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

Life on the open road is liberty....to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.

-- Isabelle Eberhardt

If there is a shower handy!

[Jeff]

If there is a shower handy!

Good addition!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” - Norman Vincent Peale

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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