Positive Quote Of The Day July 2019

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"We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."--Brad Meltzer

[Jeff]

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"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it."- William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

[Jeff]

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"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for."- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) English Writer and Statesman

[Jeff]

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“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.”- John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States)



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[Jeff]

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"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America."- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) 26th President of the United States

[Jeff]

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"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert (1754 - 1824) French Philosopher

[Jeff]

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"None will improve your lot If you yourself do not."- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) German poet

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:great thought

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"Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline"- William L. Shirer (1904 - 1993) American Journalist and Historian

[Jeff]

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Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. ― Jim Rohn

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"What we need to discover now in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved to be incompatible."- William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

[Jeff]

True today as it was 100 years ago!

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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."--Alice Walker

[Jeff]

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"I hate that word: lucky. It cheapens a lot of hard work."--Peter Dinklage


Asking for prayers for those of us located in the Gulf South and the impending tropical weather system heading our way.

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: Very True!

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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."--Harry S. Truman

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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor." - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish Novelist

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"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."- James Freeman Clarke (1810 - 1888) American Unitarian Minister and Author

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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart."- Mencius (371-291 B.C.) Chinese philosopher

[Jeff]

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"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947) American philosopher

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"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him."- St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) Italian Dominican friar

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"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well."- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) English 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 (1874 - 1963) American Poet

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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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"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

[Jeff]

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"Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value."--Albert Einstein

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"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God!" - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) English Playwright

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"Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws and obey them, space will treat you kindly. And don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go; and he'll do plenty well when he gets there." - Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977) German rocket engineer who came to the U.S. to work on the space program.

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"Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."- William James (1842 - 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

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"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing - advising his daughter Martha, 1787."- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Third President of the United States

[Jeff]

Tough advice for a retired guy

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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."--Victor Kiam

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Tough advice for a retired guy

Never retire; Just reload!

[Jeff]

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"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."--John Holt

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"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands." - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) American Presbyterian Minister

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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle (384 BC - 324 BC) Greek philosopher and scientist

[Jeff]

“We are what we repeatedly do”!
Great thought