Positive Quote Of The Day August 2016

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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
- Arthur Helps (1813 - 1875) English Historian and Novelist

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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.— Denis Waitley

[Jeff]

Good one:thumbsup:

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Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.— John Maxwell

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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) American Author and Humorist

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Excellent!:thumbsup:

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"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."- F.W. Faber

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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.— Wayne Dyer

[Jeff]

Good point!

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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"- Adam Smith (1723-1790)

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"Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering."- Sextus Propertius, (50BC - 16AD) Roman Poet

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Show me a person who doesn't make mistakes and I'll show you a person who doesn't do anything.— Leonard Rubino

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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.-- Irving Berlin

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.— Henry David Thoreau

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Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you greater than any obstacle.— Christian D. Larson

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"It is the man who goes straight to his goal, obstacle or no obstacle, that commands our respect, gets our confidence, and gets to the front. He is the man who is sought in an emergency, not the man who is afraid of obstacles, who magnifies difficulties."
- Orison Sweet Marden (1850 - 1924) American Editor and Speaker

[Jeff]

Good one!

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I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

-- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) English Novelist



Please pray for the victims of the flooding in South Louisiana

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.-- Thomas Edison

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You always pass failure on the way to success.-- Mickey Rooney

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"There is great power in a resolution that has no reservations in it -- a strong, persistent, tenacious purpose -- which burns all bridges behind it and which clears all obstacles from its path and arrives at its goal, no matter how long it may take, no matter what the sacrifice or the cost."- Orison Sweet Marden (1850 - 1924) American Editor and Speaker

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"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above the little things.'"- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921) American Naturalist and Writer

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"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."- Felix Adler

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

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"No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster."- Orison Sweet Marden (1850 - 1924) American Editor and Speaker

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He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
-- Elbert Hubbard

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"Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)English Novelist

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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus (55-135 AD) (55 AD - 135 AD) Greek Philosopher

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"If you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains; If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains."- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 BC) Roman Writer, Statesman, and Orator

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"The world is good-natured to people who are good natured."- William Makepeace Thackeray

[Jeff]

Very true!

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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-- Bishop W.C. Magee

[Jeff]

So true!

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"He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made."- Henry B. Wilson

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If there is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to put yourself in the other person's place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.
-- Henry Ford

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"Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves."- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43-17 BC) Roman Poet

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