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"I don't know where I've been or what I've done, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world." Red Skelton

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way" Babe Ruth

"The 'if' thinker broods over a difficulty or a setback. The 'how' thinker wastes no energy on postmortems when trouble or even disaster hits him. He immediately starts looking for the best solution." Norman Vincent Peale

My doctor is wonderful. Once, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the x-rays. Joey Bishop

"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs." Mario Andretti, Race Car Driver

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." Charles Kettering, Inventor

"Wherever we look upon this earth, opportunities take shape within the problems." Nelson Rockefeller

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failures." Colin Powell

"The moment you let avoiding failure become your motivator, you're down the path of inactivity." Roberto Goizueta, the late CEO of Coca-Cola

I wish that we could measure how much the potential of the mind to expand has been stunted by television.  George Carlin

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. Francis Bacon

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take it all away Thomas Jefferson

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. George Carlin

Never make the mistake of limiting the visions of your future with something as narrow as the limited experiences of your past. Your future has nothing to do with your past. How do you want to play this moment?as something you?re re-living or something you're creating   annonymous

Whether you think you can, or think you can?t...you?re right. Henry Ford

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." Henry Ford

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Artist Vincent Van Gogh

"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life." Harvey Firestone

"The older we get the more we realize that service to others is the only way to stay happy. If we do nothing to benefit others, we will do nothing to benefit ourselves." Carl Holmes

"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days." Lance Armstrong

"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy happy." Dale Carnegie

"One of the things my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations." Tiger Woods, Golfer

"Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing." Warren Bennis

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus when the limo breaks down." Oprah Winfrey

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Ben Franklin

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security, will deserve neither and lose both." Ben Franklin

"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late." Ben Franklin

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immoveable, those that are moveable, and those that move." Ben Franklin

"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning." Ben Franklin

"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste." Ben Franklin

"He does not possess wealth; it possesses him." Ben Franklin

"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today." Ben Franklin

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." Ben Franklin

"Well done is better than well said." Ben Franklin

"Amateurs hope. Professionals work." Garson Kanin

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." Amy Tan

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen that has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid." Mark Twain

Because of my abuse of drugs, I neglected my business affairs and had large arrears with the IRS, and that took me eighteen to twenty years to dig out of. I did it honorably, and I don't begrudge them. I don't hate paying taxes, and I'm not angry at anyone, because I was complicit in it. But I'll tell you what it did for me: It made me a way better comedian. Because I had to stay out on the road and I couldn't pursue that movie career, which would have gone nowhere, and I became a really good comic and a really good writer. George Carlin

I stopped voting when I stopped taking drugs. I believe both of those acts are closely related to delusional behavior. George Carlin

"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier." Paula Nelson

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher." Thomas Huxley, biologist

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." Albert Einstein

"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help that would never otherwise have occurred...Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn?t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Mark Twain

Many investors feel safest with something they know. But just because you have never heard of something doesn't make it a bad investment Jordan Kimmel, author

The secret about secrets is that there are no secrets, only good common sense and diligent observation? Erwin Aguayo, author

"Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already." Marcus Aurelius

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path...It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction." Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." Dwight Eisenhower, 34th US president

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn." George Santayana

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was 1,000 miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up." Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none." Thomas Carlyle, Essayist, Historian

"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself." Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer

It takes brains to hatch a good plan. But it takes guts to stick with it, especially when everyone else is following the herd. Lawrence Ulrich

We're not here to fill anyone else's shoes; we're here to run in our own and do the best we can with what we've got.? Zig Ziglar

"If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team." Bud Wilkinson, football coach

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." John Adams, 2nd US president

"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results." Napoleon Hill, Author

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience." Euripides, Greek Playwright

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill Gates, Microsoft Inc. Company Founder and Chairman

"The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chances you have of getting somewhere." Charles Kettering

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for." Socrates

You Can't Push A Rope Persian Proverb

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it." Henry Ford

"I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how they deal with their subordinates." Norman Schwarzkopf, US Army General

"Employees are motivated by their own inherent need to succeed at a challenging task," Frederick Herzberg wrote Work and the Nature Man and developed the Motivation-Hygiene theory

"It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion; the other, self-denial." Thomas Haliburton, Writer

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." Hank Aaron

People have enough troubles wihtout taking on a poor man's troubles Rob Harbison (from the sudy guide The Book of Proverbs)

"Amateurs hope. Professionals work." Four words crafted by writer Garson Kanin

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, is because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.? writer Garson Kanin

Sailors and salespeople should heed this advice: "If there is no wind, row." Chris Lytle's Sales Tip

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks," Benjamin Disraeli was a British Prime Minister

"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., Strength to Love, 1963

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." Eric Hoffer

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." Melody Beattie

Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more." Dr. Seuss

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected. Samuel Johnson

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor

If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. Will Kommen

Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops. Cary Grant

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. Robert Orben

Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors. David Brenner

My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far I've finished two bags of M&Ms and a chocolate cake. I feel better already. Dave Barry

I'm not going to vacuum ?til Sears makes one you can ride on. Roseanne Barr

To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior. Rita Rudner

If you love something, set it free. Unless it's chocolate. Never release chocolate. Renee Duvall

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.? Calvin Trillin

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. Rodney Dangerfield

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TV's for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. Wendy Liebman

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams

I have an aunt who married so late in life that Medicare picked up 80 percent of the honeymoon.? Don Reber

I hate housework - you make the beds, you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.? Joan Rivers

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
Henny Youngman

Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.? Bob Thaves

"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." Wolfgang Puck, chef, restaurateur

"What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second- or third-best horse and win." Vicky Aragon

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin, Statesman

Use It All; Wear It Out; Make It Do; or Go Without!

"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney

"A bold heart is half the battle." Dwight Eisenhower

"Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative, and Don't Mess With Mr. Inbetween." Johnny Mercer

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." Martha Washington

You're bound to fail sometimes. It's a 100% certainty. You've just got to ignore the fact that some people will laugh at you. It makes them feel better that they haven't even tried. Felix Dennis, President Dennis Publishing

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." Milton Berle, Actor

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