Positive Quote Of The Day October 2021

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte

[Jeff]

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"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."- Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955) American Author and Speaker

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"A goal is a dream that has an ending."- Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899 - 1974) American Composer Bandleader and Pianist

[Jeff]

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"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be."- Socrates (469 - 399 BC) Greek Philosopher

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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."- Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910) American Author and Humorist

[Jeff]

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

[Jeff]

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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

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:Great advice!

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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) Scottish moral philosopher


A trip to Disney World?

[Jeff]

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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]

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"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."- John J. McCloy (1895 - 1989) American Lawyer and Presidential Advisor

[Jeff]

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You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. - Brad Garrett

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That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness. - Lupe Fiasco

[Jeff]

Good one!

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The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage. - Thucydides

[Jeff]

Well said!

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Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. - Leah LaBelle

[Jeff]

Good advice!

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. - Helen Keller

[Jeff]

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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

[Jeff]

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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

[Jeff]

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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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Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) Russian Novelist

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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. - Richard M. DeVos

[Jeff]

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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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The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. - Christopher McCandless

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:cloud9: Let the sun shine in!

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"Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it."- Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) French Scientist

[Jeff]

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"The world is good-natured to people who are good natured."- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863) English novelist

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:excellent

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” - Thomas Edison

[Jeff]

:thumbsup:Great

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British Politician

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"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809) British-American Writer

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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. - Samuel Smiles

[Jeff]

Very true

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

[Jeff]

Good one!

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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

[Jeff]

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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. - Wayne Dyer

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