Positive Quote Of The Day July 2016

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"Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying."
- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
(1715-1769) German Poet and Moralist

[Jeff]

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The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
-- Gerard Groote

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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"He liked to like people, therefore people liked him." - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
American Author and Humorist




HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!

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[Jeff]

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Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late.-- Shakespeare

[Jeff]

True

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Too many people are thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, when they ought to just water the grass they are standing on.— Amar Dave

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it."- Knute (Kenneth) Rockne (1888 - 1931)

[Jeff]

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"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989) American Actress

[Jeff]

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"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright

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"Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment."
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister

[Jeff]

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"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."- Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens (1904 - 1996) Belgian Archbishop

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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

[Jeff]

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"The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates."
- Thomas Szasz (1920-2012) American Psychiatrist

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: great thought!

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"Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."- Bernard Williams (1929 - 2003) English Philosopher

[Jeff]

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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible...what wine is so sparkling, so fragrant, so intoxicating, as possibility!" - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855) Danish Philosopher

[Jeff]

Deep thought

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"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."
- Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) French Dramatist, Novelist

[Jeff]

Not sure on that one!

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.-- Thomas Carlyle

[Jeff]

Nice!

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Well done is better than well said.-- Benjamin Franklin

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
- Herodotus (485BC - 425BC) Greek Historian

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931) American Inventor

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"If passion drives, let reason hold the reins."- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
American Statesman and Scientist

[Jeff]

Great advice!

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"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia."
- Alexis Carrel

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"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia."
- Alexis Carrel

[Jeff]

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.-- Booker T. Washington

[Jeff]

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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.-- Napoleon Bonaparte

[Jeff]

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Success is never wondering what if.-- Karrie Huffman

[Jeff]

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.— Dr. Forrest C. Shaklee

[Jeff]

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"The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fall."- Confucius, (551 - 479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"Tough times never last. Tough people do."- Robert Schuller (1926) American Minister, Evangelist

[Jeff]

True

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""But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!""- Robert Browning

[Jeff]

Ok, if one is a Shakespeare fan!

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"I never did take anything from anyone. It ain't that I'm not grateful, but I love to earn it better."- Betty Higden, Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.— Elbert Hubbard

[Jeff]

Great one!:thumbsup: