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- 'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
- J. A. Spender
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
- When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
- Ed Macauley
- Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
- Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)
- Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
- James Bryant Conant (1893 - 1978)
- There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Never promise more than you can perform.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
- Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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