ATTITUDE |
Everything can be
taken from a man but…the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s
own way.
-Victor Frankel
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Things do not change; we change.
-Henry David Thoreau
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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If man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however, measured or far away.
-Thoreau
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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.
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Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid
plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
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All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
-Shakespeare
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
-Dr. Robert Schuller
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~I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau
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When you cease to
make a contribution, you begin to die.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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Every creator painfully
experiences the chasm between
his inner vision and his ultimate
expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We have
the conviction perhaps the illusion
that we have more to say than
appear in the page.
-Isac Bascheris Singer
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There is no chance,
no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control
the firm resolve of a determined soul.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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It takes a lot of
courage to show your dreams to
someone else..
-Erma Bombeck
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All our dreams can
come true--if we have the courage
to pursue them.
-Walt Disney
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Whatever you can
do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Johann von Goethe
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Dream no small dreams
for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Excellence is to
do a common thing in an uncommon way.
-Booker T. Washington
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Experience is not
what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens
to him.
-Aldous Huxley
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The Sundial--The
shadow by my finger cast, divides
the future from the past. Behind
its unreturning line, the vanished hour, no longer thine.
Before it lies the unknown hour
in darkness and beyond thine
power. One hour alone is in thine hands, the now on which the
shadow stands.
-Wellesely College Sundial
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The greater danger
is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them;
but that they are too low and you do.
-Michelangelo
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Sell your cleaverness
and purchase bewilderment.
-Rumi
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No one knows enough
to be a pessimist. -Unknown
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A good plan executed
right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
-General George Patton
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The greatest thing
in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction
we are moving.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
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Problems are not
stop signs, they are guidelines.
-Robert Schuller
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There is a way to
do it better...find it.
-Thomas Edison
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If opportunity doesn't
knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle
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Just because something
doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas A. Edison
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Failure is success
if we learn from it.
-Malcolm Forbes
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Success is often
the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
-Al Bernstein
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The secret of achievement
is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind.
-Thoreau
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Success is getting
what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-Dale Carnegie
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Try not to become
a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
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If you are called
to be a street sweeper, sweep streets even as Michelangelo
painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote
poetry. 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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If you have to support
yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is
going to be interesting.
-Katharine Hepburn
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Choose a job you
love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius
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Your work is to discover
your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to
it.
-Buddha
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