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Pearl S. Buck

"Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'" – Pearl S. Buck

 

Plutarch

"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." – Plutarch

 

Ralph Marston

"You are free to fail a thousand times, and then to get back up and achieve stunning success." - Ralph Marston

 

Dr. Robert Anthony

"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change ... you will change." - Dr. Robert Anthony

I'm ready to change...more later...

 

The Pursuit of Happyness

"Don't ever let somebody tell you, you can't do something...You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you, you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period." - Will Smith as Chris Gardner

 

Mme du Deffandad

"The distance doesn't matter; only the first step is difficult" - Mme du Deffandad

 

Tuli Kupferberg

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." – Tuli Kupferberg

 

Raymond Charles Barker

"Your life (year) becomes the thing you have decided it shall be." – Raymond Charles Barker

 

Chinese Proverb

"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Chinese Proverb

Welcome to my new journey :)

Happy New Yearrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

Anonymous

"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others." - Anonymous

 

Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." – Ella Fitzgerald

 

John McEnroe

"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." - John McEnroe

 

Chinese proverb

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese proverb

 

Unknown

"There are no more hours in a bad day than in a good one!" - Unknown

 

Anna Quindlen

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." – Anna Quindlen

 

Alex Haley

"The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it." - Alex Haley

 

Andy Warhol

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." – Andy Warhol

 

Confucius

"Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?" – Confucius

 

Will Rogers

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

 

Erich Fromm

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm

 

James Russell Lowell

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle." – James Russell Lowell

 

Joseph Addison

"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments, but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." – Joseph Addison

 

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses." – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

 

Mother Teresa

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one." - Mother Teresa

 

Madeline Bridges

"Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you." - Madeline Bridges

 

Federico Fellini

"When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity... I can be sure that I am right." - Federico Fellini

 

Harvey Fierstein

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." – Harvey Fierstein

 

Carl Bard

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard

 

St. Francis De Sales

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." – St. Francis De Sales

 

Steve Jobs

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." – Steve Jobs

 

Kurt Vonnegut

"The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration." -Kurt Vonnegut

 

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Saints are sinners who kept going." - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

William Blake

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake

 

James Baldwin

"I am what time, circumstance, history have made of me, certainly. But I am also much more than that. So are we all." - James Baldwin

 

Isak Denison

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever." – Isak Denison

 

Ralph Marston

"Ambition and patience make a powerful team. Ambition gives you the drive and the enthusiasm to get things started, and patience sees them through. Without ambition, you would never get going. Without patience, you would give up long before the goal was reached.

When you choose to develop and activate both your ambition and your patience, you've created a relentless combination. For not only will you be effective, that effectiveness will continue to be applied over time.

With enough ambition, you can make just about anything happen, but not right away. The most effective effort is continuing effort, and that is what patience makes possible.

You never have to choose between ambition and patience. You can live with them both at the same time, and when you do, great things will happen.

Success comes to those who know when to push and when to wait. Balance ambitious effort with a deep, underlying patience, and the results you achieve will be truly amazing." – Ralph Marston

 

Derwood Fincher

"Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!" - Derwood Fincher

 

Unknown

"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else." - Unknown

 

Conrad Hilton

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

 

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"When solving problem, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves." - Anthony J. D'Angelo

 

Elbert Hubbard

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them." – Elbert Hubbard

 

Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience." – Henry Miller

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Unknown

"The only difference between stumbling blocks and steppingstones is the way in which we use them." - Unknown

 

Jessamyn West

"It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." – Jessamyn West

 

Ovid

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

 

Fortune Cookie

"Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience." - Fortune Cookie

 

Friedrich Nietzsche

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Anonymous

Determination

"What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence." - Anonymous

 

Orison Swett Marden

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." – Orison Swett Marden

 

Alexander Graham Bell

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." – Alexander Graham Bell

 

John Ruskin

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." – John Ruskin

 

Mary Kay Ash

"Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it." – Mary Kay Ash

 

Roger Houseden

"The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed." - Roger Houseden

 

Old Eskimo proverb

"Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow is wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly." - Old Eskimo proverb

 

Flavia Weedn

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again." - Flavia Weedn

 

Alice Paul

"When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row." - Alice Paul

 

Anais Nin

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

 

Erica Jong

"I have accepted fear as a part of life, specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: Turn back, turn back; you'll die if you venture too far." – Erica Jong

(yes I really am up this early. in what must be a record as i've really been up since 2:30, hours before my typical insane AM wake up call...it's gonna be a long day...going forward this time shall be referred to as: ungodly AM)

 

Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." – Mark Twain

 

William James

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions." – William James

 

Henry David Thoreau

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success." – Henry David Thoreau

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Anonymous

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." - Anonymous

 

Thomas Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't." – Thomas Edison

 

Epicurus

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for." - Epicurus

 

Ivan Turgenev

"If we wait for the moment when everything is ready, we shall never begin." – Ivan Turgenev

 

Muhammad Ali

"Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." – Muhammad Ali

 

Samuel Beckett

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." – Samuel Beckett

 

Washington Irving

"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes." – Washington Irving

 

Charles M. Schultz

"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." - Charles M. Schultz

 

Willie Mays

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time. What's tough is being good every day." - Willie Mays

 

Oscar Levant

"It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts." – Oscar Levant

 

Claude Bristol

"Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage." - Claude Bristol

 

Richard Bach

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly." – Richard Bach

 

Meg Ryan

"No one should shrink to fit the idea someone imposes on them. No one!" - Meg Ryan

 

Plato

"We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato

 

Linda Shalaway

"Take a deep breath, count to ten, and tackle each task one step at a time." - Linda Shalaway

 

Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

 

George Bernard Shaw

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

 

Rita Mae Brown

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts." - Rita Mae Brown

 

Elizabeth Kenny

"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." - Elizabeth Kenny

 

Chogyam Trungpa

"If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time." – Chogyam Trungpa

 

Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain

 

Agnes DeMille

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." - Agnes DeMille

 

Abigail Van Buren

"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters." – Abigail Van Buren

 

Dr. Wayne Dyer

"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

John Mellencamp

"This is your time here, to do what you will do. Your life is now." - John Mellencamp

 

Aldous Huxley

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." – Aldous Huxley

 

Christopher Morley

"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley

 

Arthur Koestler

"If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out." - Arthur Koestler

 

Bumper Sticker

"Don't postpone joy." - Bumper Sticker

 

Malachy McCourt

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die." - Malachy McCourt

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

 

Cardinal Mercia

"We must not give only what we have; we must give what we are." - Cardinal Mercia

 

Foster McClellan

"Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life." - Foster C. McClellan

 

India.Arie

I'm not the average girl from your video
and I ain't built like a supermodel
I'm learning to love myself unconditionally
Because I am a queen

[snip]

When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me
my face is exactly as it's supposed to be
And I know our creator didn't make no mistakes on me
My feet, my thighs, my lips, my eyes; I'm lovin' what I see

Lyrics to Video by India.Arie (modified slightly to reflect me)

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Basil Maturin

"Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to." - Basil Maturin

 

Wayne Dyer

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." - Wayne Dyer

 

Marianne Williamson

Last time I posted this quote I acknowledged I too have heard it attributed to two sources, and b/c I love it so much always knew I'd repost it and credit the other source, as I'm doing today.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

 

Norman Vincent Peale

"It's always too early to quit." - Norman Vincent Peale

 

Louis Armstrong

"What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." – Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong

 

Terry Josephson

"The more you prepare, the luckier you appear." - Terry Josephson

 

Michelangelo Buonarroti

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." – Michelangelo Buonarroti

 

Emilio James Trujillo

"It takes as much stress to be a success as it does to be a failure." - Emilio James Trujillo

 

Zig Ziglar

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing—that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar

 

Anonymous

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running." - Anonymous

 

Daryl Coley

"Your temporary inconvenience is only for permanent improvement!" – Gospel veteran Daryl Coley

 

Miles Davis

"Do not fear mistakes, there are none." – Miles Davis

 

Isak Dinesen

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself." – Isak Dinesen

 

Susan Bissonette

"An optimist is the human personification of spring." - Susan J. Bissonette

 

Virginia Satir

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference." – Virginia Satir

 

Lou Holtz

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger." - Lou Holtz

 

Madeline Bridges

"Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you." - Madeline Bridges

 

Thomas Fuller

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. - Thomas Fuller

 

Albert Schweitzer

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day." – Albert Schweitzer

 

Oliver Goldsmith

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." - Oliver Goldsmith

 

Etty Hillesum

"We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies." – Etty Hillesum

 

Peter Drucker

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

 

Elbert Hubbard

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

 

Leonard Nimoy

"The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have." - Leonard Nimoy

 

Don Sutton

"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." – Don Sutton

 

Dag Hammarskjold

"The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside." - Dag Hammarskjold

 

Carlos Castaneda

"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same." - Carlos Castaneda

 

Lady Bird Johnson

"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." – Lady Bird Johnson

 

Julia Alvarez

"The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on." – Julia Alvarez

 

John Wesley

"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley

 

Marie Curie

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." – Marie Curie

 

Martin Luther King Jr

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr

 

Joan Baez

"Action is the antidote to despair." – Joan Baez

 

Groucho Marx

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be." – Groucho Marx

 

Margaret Mitchell

"There ain't nothing from the outside can lick any of us." – Margaret Mitchell

 

Coco Chanel

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." - Coco Chanel

 

Guillaume Apollinaire

"Come to the edge."

"We can't. We're afraid."

"Come to the edge."

"We can't. We will fall!"

"Come to the edge."

And they came.

And he pushed them.

And they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

 

Bernard Baruch

"The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them." – Bernard Baruch

 

Anais Nin

"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin

 

Epictetus

"Ruin and recovering are both from within." – Epictetus

 

Mel Weldon

"My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds." - Mel Weldon

 

Frank Crane

"Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were different. They are not different." - Frank Crane

 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Carl Sagan

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

 

Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou

 

Marcel Pagnol

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be." - Marcel Pagnol

 

Kurt Vonnegut

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." – Kurt Vonnegut

 

Freya Stark

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." – Freya Stark

 

Tale of two realities

I'm still watching The Biggest Loser. I feel split right down the middle about it. On the one hand I really really love to see them push themselves physically. I cheer them when the run and am jealous they have a trainer yelling in their face pushing them to their limits.

On the other hand, I cringe every. single. time. they "predict" how much weight they'll drop or their faces fall when they didn't lose what they expected or when they strategize losing by saying so and so needs to shed xxlbs or else. It's just bizarre.

This week, watching it and America's Next Top Model, I noticed a bit of irony.

Continue reading Tale of two realities

 

George Sheehan

"Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be" - George Sheehan

 

Anonymous

"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest" - Anonymous

 

Rosa Parks

"Each person must live their life as a model for others." - Rosa Parks (1913-2005)

 

Special Olympics Motto

"Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt." - Motto of the Special Olympics

 

Thomas Edison

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison

 

Plutarch

"Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little." – Plutarch

 

Living a life that matters

Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end.

There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes.

All the things you have collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.

Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies will finally disappear.

So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will all expire.

The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away.

It won't matter where you came from, or on what side of the tracks you lived.

It won't matter whether you were beautiful or brilliant.

Our gender, skin color, ethnicity will be irrelevant.

So what will matter?

Continue reading Living a life that matters

 

Jim Rohn

"Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn

 

Michelangelo

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." – Michelangelo

 

Sam Ewing

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - Sam Ewing

 

Jim Rohn

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." - Jim Rohn

 

Julia Sorel

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." - Julia Sorel

 

Mark Twain

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today." - Mark Twain

 

Ray Kroc

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get." - Ray Kroc

 

Jim Goodwin

"The impossible is often the untried." - Jim Goodwin

 

Robert Schuller

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?" - Robert Schuller

 

W.M. Lewis

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis

 

Malcolm Forbes

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes

 

Gandalf

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time we are given." - Gandalf to Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring (movie)

 

Anatole France

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." – Anatole France

 

Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." – Ella Fitzgerald

 

Robert Hillyer

"If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure." - Robert Hillyer

 

Nelson Mandela

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us. It is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela

 

Thomas Edison

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

 

Anna Quindlen

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." - Anna Quindlen

 

George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

 

Robert Frost

"Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have." – Robert Frost

 

Unknown

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary." - Unknown

 

Saint Augustine

"Love, and do what you like." - Saint Augustine

 

Rumi

"I want to sing like the birds sing not worrying about who hears or what they think." - Rumi

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Vincent Van Gogh

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh

 

George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will" – George Bernard Shaw

 

Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

William Feather

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing." - William Feather

 

Jack Lemmon

"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." – Jack Lemmon

 

Warren Buffett

"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does." – Warren Buffett

 

Frank Lloyd Wright

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." – Frank Lloyd Wright

 

Chinese Proverb

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb

 

Alex Haley

"The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it." - Alex Haley

 

Lynn V. Andrews

"...so often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all of the pain and all of the struggle. We forget that we were put on earth to learn something. If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us." - Lynn V. Andrews

 

Morris West

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." - Morris West

 

Josh Billings

"Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well." - Josh Billings

 

Sigmund Freud

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." - Sigmund Freud

 

Dorothea Brande

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail." – Dorothea Brande

 

Mohandas Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Mohandas Gandhi

 

Elie Wiesel

"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings." - Elie Wiesel

 

Michael Landon

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows." - Michael Landon

 

Victoria Holt

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." – Victoria Holt

 

Bernie Siegel

"If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn." - Bernie Siegel

 

James Bryant Conant

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." – James Bryant Conant

 

Nelson Boswell

"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed." - Nelson Boswell

 

Lao-Tzu

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning." – Lao-Tzu

 

Erica Jong

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." - Erica Jong

 

John Updike

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." – John Updike

 

James Leo Herlihy

"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong." - James Leo Herlihy

 

Henry Van Dyke

"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang excep

 

Anne Lamott

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up." – Anne Lamott

 

Louis L'Amour

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more." – Louis L'Amour

 

Hannah More

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Hannah More

 

Dan Zadra

"Worry is a misuse of the imagination." - Dan Zadra

 

Amelia Earhart

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart

 

Richard Nelson

"There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains." - Richard Nelson

 

Glenn Clark

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear." - Glenn Clark

 

Unknown

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn." - Unknown

 

Confucius

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." - Confucius

 

William Saroyan

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan

 

David J. Schwartz

"To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone." - David J. Schwartz

 

Oprah Winfrey

"The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free." - Oprah Winfrey

 

Doc Childre and Howard Martin

"As difficult as it seems, you can be sure of this: At the core of the heart, you have the power to move beyond the old issues that are still hindering your freedom. The hardest things—the ones that push you up against your limits—are the very things you need to address to make a quantum leap into a fresh inner and outer life." - Doc Childre and Howard Martin

 

Doc Childre and Howard Martin

"Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances." Doc Childre and Howard Martin

 

Catherine Ponder

"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." - Catherine Ponder

 

Olin Miller

"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do." - Olin Miller

 

Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Sylvia Robinson

"Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go." - Sylvia Robinson

 

Henry Miller

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest!" -Henry Miller

 

Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I've lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Wayne Gretzky

"You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

 

Philo

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." - Philo

 

Samuel Johnson

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." - Samuel Johnson

 

Will Durant

"Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day." - Will Durant

 

Carl Bard

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." - Carl Bard

 

Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." – Carl Jung

 

Ellen Mikesell

"There are only 2 choices; make progress or make excuses." - Ellen Mikesell

 

Arthur Ashe

"Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it." - Arthur Ashe

 

Erica Jong

"Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar." – Erica Jong

 

Elizabeth Kenny

"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." - Elizabeth Kenny

 

Judy Garland

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else." - Judy Garland

 

Nicholas Murray Butler

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress." - Nicholas Murray Butler

 

Carol Burnett

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." - Carol Burnett

 

Joseph Campbell

"When you follow your bliss, doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." - Joseph Campbell

 

John Quincy Adams

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams

 

E. E. Cummings

"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are." - E. E. Cummings

 

Henry J. Kaiser

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." - Henry J. Kaiser

 

Epictetus

"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus

 

George Iles

"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark." - George Iles

 

Lee Iacocca

"You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance." - Lee Iacocca

 

Ralph Marston

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." - Ralph Marston

 

Ellen Degeneres

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is." - Ellen Degeneres

 

Ugo Betti

"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely." - Ugo Betti

 

Albert Schweitzer

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." - Albert Schweitzer

 

Michelle Ventor

"People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you'll know exactly what to do." - Michelle Ventor

 

Ben Sweetland

"We cannot hold a torch to light another person's path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland

 

Me time

This time of the day is starting to become my favorite time. It used to be anytime from 11pm to 2am was me time. I like the quiet & knowing when I walk down the hall @ this insane hour, most of my neighbors are still asleep. I like that it's just me in the gym. As I was bent over lacing up my sneakers, in the dim light I looked @ my legs. In the distance I heard a train toot it's horn. I felt like I was in a Nike commercial.

I don't know if that mind game did the trick, but I had a GREAT run this morning. I normally don't talk much about the running b/c to date it's all be laborious, I just trudge thru it. But today, as I was toggling the treadmill screen to the rate monitor settings, I didn't have that pre-run dread. Once I started, I felt like I floated the entire time, I couldn't believe 30 mins had passed. I actually clapped my hands @ the 29 min mark.

I think the fake iPod knows it's days are numbered. All this week the remote didn't work, this morning it did. I flipped to MTV and caught my fave song (Mr. Brightside) and pretended I had headphones on. Yes still. I looked str8 ahead and ran like I had music in my ears. I ran for the hunger I've been feeling right before bed and as soon as I wake up. I ran for the strength to stick to the food challenge. I ran for all the times in the past when I told myself I couldn't.

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

Hot damn, I'm a runner.

 

Buddha

"Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all." - Buddha

 

Henry Ford

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't...you are probably right." - Henry Ford

 

Michael Jordan

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." - Michael Jordan

 

Dr. Seuss

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

 

Oprah Winfrey

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it." - Oprah Winfrey

 

Charles Swindoll

"I have tried and I cannot find, either in Scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply." - Charles Swindoll

 

General George S. Patton

"Don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." - General George S. Patton

 

Alexis Carrel

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrel

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Fortune Cookie

"Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience." - Fortune Cookie

 

Andre Gide

"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them." - Andre Gide

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

Unknown Authors

"It is what you do in 2005, that determines what you will be in 2006."

"Make the decision, then do something - no matter how small - toward accomplishing what you want."

"If you're going to be obsessive about something, why not be obsessive about your fitness level?"

"I don't want to be perfect, I just want to be a little better each day. And it's working."

"Change the mind, and the body will change itself."

"If you want what you do not have, you must do what you have not done."

Unknown Authors

 

Unknown Authors

"You get whatever you settle for."

"I wake up every day with the realization that this is it, that there's only one shot at this life and I can either enjoy the ride and live it to its fullest and to my highest potential or I can stay the way I am."

"Your past does not equal, nor does it dictate, your future."

"One definition of insanity is: Doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result."

"The quality of your fuel determines the quality of your body."

"We fail because we don't strike the iron while it's hot. We don't take immediate action toward achieving what we want. We decide to wait until tomorrow, or next week, or even next month."

Unknown Authors

 

Robert Bringle

"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want." - Robert Bringle

 

Richard L Evans

"Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard L Evans

 

Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

 

Arthur C. Clarke

"The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

 

Mary Tyler Moore

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." - Mary Tyler Moore

 

Elie Wiesel

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win." - Elie Wiesel

 

Sioux Indian prayer

"Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins." - Sioux Indian prayer

 

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Kobi Yamada

"Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life." - Kobi Yamada

 

John Baines

"The first step towards the solution of any problem is optimism." - John Baines

 

Anonymous

"If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten." - Anonymous

 

William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

"Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible." - William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

 

Anne Sophie Swetchine

"There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly." - Anne Sophie Swetchine

 

Winston Churchill

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

William Cobbett

"It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world." - William Cobbett

 

Charles M. Schultz

"It's never the end of the world. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles M. Schultz

 

Elijah b. Raphael

"Honor your mother at heart, in speech, and by action." - Elijah b. Raphael

 

Mark Twain

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

 

Aldous Huxley

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." - Aldous Huxley

 

Helen Hayes

"Always aim for achievement, and forget about success." - Helen Hayes

 

Paulo Coelho

"Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move." - Paulo Coelho

 

David Viscott

"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." - David Viscott

 

Erica Jong

"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

 

Lena Horne

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne

 

Billy Graham

"All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty." - Billy Graham

 

Henri Bergson

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson

 

Robert Collier

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." - Robert Collier

 

Unknown

"Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." - Unknown

 

Christopher Robin

"You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - Christopher Robin to Pooh

 

Anonymous

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." - Anonymous

 

Ann Landers

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." - Ann Landers

 

Willie Mays

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time? What's tough is being good every day." - Willie Mays

 

Mary Pickford

"Today is a new day, you will get out of it just what you put into it." - Mary Pickford

 

Dale Carnegie

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?" - Dale Carnegie

 

Dan Milman

"In my life, I've learned that at precisely those times when life seems to get worse that you may actually be getting ready to make a leap. When you feel like you're getting nowhere - stagnating, even slipping backward - what you're actually doing is backing up to get a running start." - Dan Milman

 

St. Francis de Sales

"Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself." - St. Francis de Sales

 

Carl Rogers

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl Rogers

 

Yoda

"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda

 

Unknown Authors

"My life tomorrow will be the result of my attitudes and the choices I make today."

"I can do this...I know I can. It's just going to take time & patience."

"Rather than aiming for being perfect, just aim to be little bit better today than you were yesterday."

Unknown Authors

 

Erin Majors

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - Erin Majors

 

Mary Pickford

"If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down." - Mary Pickford

 

Sydney J. Harris

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better." - Sydney J. Harris

 

Vernon Law

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." - Vernon Law

 

Anton Chekov

"You must once and for all give up being worried about success and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures." - Anton Chekov

 

Earl Nightingale

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale

 

Lou Holtz

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." - Lou Holtz

 

Greg Anderson

"Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention." - Greg Anderson

 

Euripides

"There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change." - Euripides

 

Double dose

It's one of those weeks. *sigh* I really need these two quotes today.

"I'm looking forward to looking back on all this." - Sandra Knell

 

Charles Spurgeon

"Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." - Charles Spurgeon

 

Norwegian proverb

"Heroism consists in hanging on one minute longer." - Norwegian proverb

 

Pamela Vault Starr

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Pamela Vault Starr

 

Jesse Katsopolis

"It doesn't matter what other people think about you, all that matters is what you think about yourself." - Jesse Katsopolis

 

Dr. Wayne Dyer

"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

Catherine Aird

"If you can't be a good example, then you?ll just have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird

 

Beverly Sills

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." - Beverly Sills

 

Henry S. Haskins

"Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them." - Henry S. Haskins

 

Henry David Thoreau

"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." - Henry David Thoreau

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

Erica Jong

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

 

Martha Washington

"The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." - Martha Washington

 

Tommy Kelley

"You have failed only when you quit trying. Until then, you're still in the act of progression. So, never quit trying and you'll never be a failure." - Tommy Kelley

 

Ursula K. LeGuin

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." ? Ursula K. LeGuin

 

Wally "Famous" Amos

"It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it." - Wally "Famous" Amos

 

Earl Nightingale

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale

 

Karen Lamb

"A year from now, you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

 

David Campbell

"Discipline is remembering what you want." - David Campbell

 

Norman Vincent Peale

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

 

Mal Pancoast

"The odds of hitting a target go up dramatically when you aim at it." - Mal Pancoast

 

Pablo Picasso

"I am always doing things I can't do; that's how I get to do them." - Pablo Picasso

 

Frank Outlaw

"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw

 

Robert Schuller

"Tough times never last, tough people do." - Robert Schuller

 

Joseph Campbell

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell

 

Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop" - Confucius.

 

Pastor Roland Smith

"Are you humbly grateful? Or grumbly hateful?" - Pastor Roland Smith

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

John Wayne

"Tomorrow hopes that we have learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne

 

Jessica Hatchigan

"There's an important difference between giving up and letting go." - Jessica Hatchigan

 

Japanese proverb

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese proverb

 

Beverly Sills

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills

 

W.K. Hope

"Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back." - W.K. Hope

 

Herbert Bayard Swope

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure ? try to please everybody." - Herbert Bayard Swope

 

Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - Gen. Norman Schwarzkoff

 

Sigmund Freud

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud

 

Lee Holz

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." - Lee Holz

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Gerry Sikorski

"Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do." - Gerry Sikorski

 

Harper Lee

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway." - Harper Lee

 

William Faulkner

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - William Faulkner

 

Johann Goethe

"Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it." - Johann Goethe

 

Dr. Wayne Dyer

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

 

Dolly Parton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

 

Mary C. Crowley

"Two little words that can make the difference: START NOW." - Mary C. Crowley

 

Tim McCarver

"Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones." - Tim McCarver

 

Saint Francis

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Saint Francis

 

Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

 

Mal Pancoast

"The odds of hitting a target go up dramatically when you aim at it." - Mal Pancoast

 

Vince Lombardi

"Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. " - Vince Lombardi

 

Michael Jordan

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

 


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