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- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor
- I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorothea Brande
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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