Positive Quote Of The Day March 2021

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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."- Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing

[Jeff]

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"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run." - Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948) Home run king in American baseball. Also, strike out king.

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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) Writer best known for his adventurous, "macho" lifestyle and books such as "The Old Man and the Sea", "A Farewell to Arms", and "The Sun Also Rises"

[Jeff]

Good thought

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"Every experience is a form of exploration"- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West

[Jeff]

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"I'd like to be remembered as someone who tried to do the decent thing. Mainly that comes down to how you treat people. If you take out your frustration on people, that's not doing the decent thing. If you treat someone differently because they're worth more money - that's not doing the decent thing."- Martin Short (B - 1950) Canadian-American comedian, actor, singer and writer

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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

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We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. - Diogenes Laertius

[Jeff]

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. - John Muir

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I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience. - Halle Berry

[Jeff]

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"When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up."- John Peterman (B - 1941) American catalog and retail entrepreneur from Lexington, Kentucky, who operates The J. Peterman Company.

[Jeff]

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"You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside."- Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros (1888 - 1971) Uruguayan poet who served as Uruguayan Consul in the Italian city of Florence.

[Jeff]

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"We will all experience disappointments and crushing events somewhere along the way, setbacks for which there is no "reason"; no one to blame. It might be a disease; it might be injury; it might be an accident; it might be losing a loved one; it might be getting swept away in a political shake up; it might be getting shot down over Vietnam and thrown into a POW camp for 8 years. What separates people, James Stockdale taught me, is not the presence or absence of difficulties, but how they deal with the inevitable difficulties of life."- James C. Collins (B - 1958) American author

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Writer and Statesman

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"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) British Politician

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Someone with their feet planted firmly on the ground has no hope of reaching the stars. - Kelsey Dunn

[Jeff]

:thumbsup: But that’s not what Casey Kasem used to tell us every Saturday!

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will be at peace. - Bob Marley

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"What do the right people want more than almost anything else? They want to be part of a winning team. They want to contribute to producing visible, tangible results. They want to feel the excitement of being involved in something that just flat out works."- James C. Collins (B - 1958) American author

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"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."- Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English Writer and Statesman

This is a very correct thought. You need to rely on your strength and be very careful with all the advice. In my life I had a friend who considered herself an expert in all spheres of human life, but at the same time advised such heresy that I just don't know how to react to it.

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

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One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. - Joan of Arc

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"The only real elegance is in the mind, and if you've got that, the rest naturually flows from it."- Diana Vreeland (1903 - 1989) Editor of Vogue, Fashion Legend

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"The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly."- Robert Sternberg (B - 1949) American Psychologist who acted as a President for the American Psychological Association.

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Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. - Louisa May Alcott

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"Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing, the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude to any given set of circumstances, to choose one's way."- Viktor Frankl (1905 - 1997) Author of the book "Man's Search For Meaning", Austrian neurologist and Nazi concentration camp survivor who is also the founder of logo therapy

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"it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work."- James C. Collins (B - 1958) American author

[Jeff]

Very true!

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"A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him."- John Banville aka Benjamin Black (B - 1945) Irish novelist who has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov"

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. - Maya Angelou

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So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. And have fun while you're at it. Always take time out to love and to live. You're going to be busy, but never forget family and friends. - Daniel S. Goldin

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"As one's fortunes are reduced, one's spirit must expand to fill the void." - Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Former British Prime Minister

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"Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved."- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) American actor

[Jeff]

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

[Jeff]

Good one!

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"The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not having any goals to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream."- Benjamin Mays (1894 - 1984) American Baptist minister and civil rights leader

[Jeff]

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