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- Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
- Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
- It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.
- Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
- Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
- Napoleon Hill
- Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
- Dale Carnegie
- We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser
- The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
- Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
- Sholem Asch (1880 - 1957)
- The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher, 05-01-07
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