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| It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary - Winston Churchill, British statesman
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| The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves - Brian Tracy, speaker
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| Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway - John Wayne, actor
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| An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats failures simply as practice shots - Charles Franklin Kettering, inventor
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| Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler - – Albert Einstein, physicist
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke, 1852 - 1933
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And dont hate nobody.
- Eubie James Herbert Blake, 1883 - 1983
The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.
- William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldnt people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890 - 1995
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
- Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885
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| The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work - Oprah Winfrey, entertainer
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| I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” - Martha Washington, wife of George Washington
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| One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility - – Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady
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| Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had - Edgar Guest, poet
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936
The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea.
- Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen, 1885 - 1962
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.
- Lao-Tzu
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 - 1519
If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
- Loren Eiseley, 1907 - 1977
Women are like tea bags, You never know how strong they really are until you put them in hot water.
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| Good people are good because theyve come to wisdom through failure - William Saroyan, Writer
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| Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit - Ansel Adams, photographer
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| Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds - Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. president
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
- Arthur Christopher Benson
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
- Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese proverb
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1908 - 1973
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
- Steven Patrick Callahan
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