Quote of the day

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Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.
- Thomas N. Carruther

 

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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
- Johann von Goethe

 

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Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William Arthur Ward

 

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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
- Charles Caleb Colton

 

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The difference between extraordinary people and ordinary people is a simple as the difference between the two words. Extraordinary people are committed to doing the extra things that ordinary people won't.
Christine Kinney

 

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I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
General George S. Patton

 

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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt

 

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
- William Feather

 

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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

 

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We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light, which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woodrow T. Wilson

 

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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian and essayist

 

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller

 

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Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
- Irene Kassorla

 

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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

Joyce Chapman

 

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Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous

 

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Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln

 

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You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
- Harriet Woods

 

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The future is not some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made.

 

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Success doesn't come to you. You go to it.
Marva Collins