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Medlir's Quotes Page

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A

The reward of suffering is experience. --Aeschylus
Eighty-five percent of life is just showing up. --Woody Allen

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B

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. --Henri Louis Bergson
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. --Richard E. Byrd

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C

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters. --Cato The Elder
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. --Earl of Chesterfield
The price of greatness is responsibility. --Winston Churchill
Never, Never, Never Quit. --Winston Churchill
Success doesn't come to you ... you go to it. --Marva Collins

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D

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. --Demosthenes
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. --Rene Descartes
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. --Benjamin Disraeli
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. --Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. --Benjamin Disraeli
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. --Finley Peter Dunne

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E

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. --Thomas Edison
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. --Albert Einstein
The important thing is never to stop questioning. --Albert Einstein
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. --Epicurus

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G

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. --Walter Gagehot

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H

We will either find a way, or make one. --Hannibal
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. --Horace

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K

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. --Helen Keller
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. --Charles Kettering
The only time you can't afford to fail is the last time you try. --Charles Kettering

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L

To succeed is nothing - it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character. --Marie Leneru
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. --Vincent Lombardi

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N

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. --Napoleon
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. --Somerset Maugham

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P

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. --Boris Pasternak
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. -- Edward John Phelps
No man is free who cannot control himself. --Pythagoras

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R

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. --Ayn Rand
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -- Jules Renard
It is in the moment of decisions that your destiny is shaped. --Anthony Robbins
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. --FDR

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S

Nothing happens unless first a dream. --Carl Sandburg
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shakespeare
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. --Samuel Smiles

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T

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. --Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. --Mark Twain

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V

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars. -Henry Van Dyke
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals. --Voltaire

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Y

Procrastination is the thief of time. --Edward Young

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Anonymous

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success is to recognize a problem and turn it into an opportunity.
Leadership is action, not position.
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work.
Take each day and relish each moment. Take each bad day and work to make it good.
A thousand mile journey begins with the first step.
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Always be determined to make a difference. The world is changed by the power of individuals.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
There is always free cheese in a mousetrap.
Honor is a gift a man gives himself.
Seek out new things, new people and places to expand the horizons of your world.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Enthusiasm is the propelling force necessary for climbing the ladder of success.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.
Be grateful for luck, but don't depend on it.
Better to face a danger once than be always in fear.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Be braver. You cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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