Positive Quote Of The Day June 2018

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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]

:thumbsup:good one for a new month!

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

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"Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia."- Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944) French surgeon and biologist

[Jeff]

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Good one, inertia is a very powerful force; especially on a retired guy!

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Good one, inertia is a very powerful force; especially on a retired guy!
Wait till you hit the BIG 65 !!!

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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Wishing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[Jeff]

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"I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it."- William H. Rehnquist (1924 - 2005) American Supreme Court Chief Justice

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"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results."- Sylvester Stallone (1946) American Actor

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No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams

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"...we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American Writer

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
- J.B. Priestley (1894 - 1984) English Author

[Jeff]

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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

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Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.- Anais Nin

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"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism."- Alexander Hamilton (1757 - 1804) 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury

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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

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"Every life is a daily series of advances and retreats, intimate victories and private defeats, all measured not by grand events but by an awareness of the obstacles that have been overcome along the way."- Simon Baatz Author of The Girl on the Velvet Swing

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"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

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"He felt that he could forgive anything to anyone, because happiness was the greatest agent of purification."- Ayn Rand (1905-1982) Russian-American Writer and Philosopher




HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

[Jeff]

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“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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"Courage is grace under pressure."- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) American Writer

[Jeff]

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A great one!

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"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have."- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) 16th President of the United States

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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” (Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961); Founder Of Analytical Psychology)

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"I like a man who attempts the impossible."- J.P. Morgan (1837 - 1913) American financier

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"God loves to help him who strives to help himself." --Aeschylus

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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used anonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) English Novelist

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: Not bad, worth some thought!

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"The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world"- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) German philosopher

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"It is not about you." - Rick Warren

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"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) American Writer

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"You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work." Thomas Dreier (1884 - 1976) American editor, writer, advertising executive, and business theorist.

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"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."- Epictetus (55AD - 135AD) Stoic philosopher

[Jeff]

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That covers a lot of things!