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- The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
- William McFee
- One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
- Wilbur N. Nesbit
- That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
- Unknown
- Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
- Unknown
- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . .
- Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
- If man does his best what else is there?
- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
- Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
- A. Lou Vickery
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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