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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
– James Garfield

Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
– Rudyard Kipling

A good marriage is when you’re married not to someone you can live with, but to someone you really cannot live without.
– Dr. Howard Hendricks

The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation.
– William Shakespeare

No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
– Charles Baudelaire

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
– Lee Trevino

I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.
– Ben Hogan

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
– Ayn Rand

The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
– William Bernbach

We are made to persist. That’s how we find out who we are.
– Tobias Wolff

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance.
– Frank Moore Colby

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun, and fun is a lot more work.
– Milton Berle

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quotesThe greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself.
– Garth Brooks

Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
– Julia Child

A person can succeed at almost anything for which they have unlimited enthusiasm.
– Charles M. Schwab

Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
– Benjamin Spock

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
– Harriet Tubman

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure.
– Tommy Lasorda

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who has not served cannot command.
– John Florio

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
– Charles de Gaulle

Strategic advantage lies in the leverage of knowledge.
– Robert Buckman

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours, and you’ll drift in that direction.
– Warren Buffett

There is only one way to make a great deal of money, and that is in a business of your own.
– J. Paul Getty

Freedom lies in being bold.
– Robert Frost

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds. It is something one creates.
– Thomas Szasz

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
– Leon Suenens

No great performance ever came from holding back.
– Don Greene

A bold, vigorous assault has won many a faltering cause.
– Ira Eaker

Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
– Bruce Barton

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
– John Churton Collins

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
– Maya Angelou

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
– Francis Chichester

One should count each day a separate life.
– Seneca

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
– Oscar Wilde

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
– Lyndon B. Johnson

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
– Thomas Jones

What we call ‘Progress’ is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
– Havelock Ellis

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
– Jane Austen

Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
– Rabbi Julius Gordon

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
– Rita Mae Brown

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
– Ben Hecht

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
– Albert Einstein

Silence is the virtue of fools.
– Sir Francis Bacon

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
– Phyllis Diller

Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
– Jules Renard

The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have fun.’
– Phillip Lopate

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
– G.K. Chesterton

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
– Aldous Huxley

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“People will not bear it when advice is violently given, even if it is well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.”
– John Paul Richter

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell and a hell of a heav’n.”
– John Milton, poet

“It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.”
– J. Willard Marriot

“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.”
– Mary Bethune, educator

“The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
– Henry Ford, carmaker

“It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit that we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.”
– George Marshall, general

“The most important thing about goals is… having one.”
– Geoffry F. Abert

“Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

“The majority of men meet with failure because (they don’t create) new plans to take the place of those that fail.”
– Napoleon Hill, motivational expert

“The barrier (to) success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.”
– Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
– Donald Trump, Real Estate Magnate

“When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter five years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.”
– Catherine Pulsifer, writer

“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery, aviator

“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
– Plutarch, historian

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.”
– Ruth Gordon, actress

“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
– Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”
– Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, CEO

“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value.”
– Thomas Edison, inventor

“It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.”
– J. Willard Marriot

“If you don’t like the situation you’re in, you don’t have to settle for it. ”
– Macy Gray, Singer

“The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership.”
– Jim Loehr, psychologist

“Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours.”
– Tom Hopkins, sales trainer

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
– Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”
– Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor

“Believe you will be successful and you will.”
– Dale Carnegie, motivational speaker

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

“I’ve felt that dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied in business, we become obsolete.”
– J. Willard Marriott Sr., hotel executive

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
– Erica Jong, Author

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

“Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.”
– James Freeman Clarke

“Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.”
– J.C. Penney, Retailer

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
– Douglas MacArthur, General

“The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.”
– Edward Hale, theologian

“In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.”
– Hank Aaron, Baseball Player

“I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.”
– Sam Walton, Wal-Mart founder

“The majority of men meet with failure because (they don’t create) new plans to take the place of those that fail.”
– Napoleon Hill, motivational expert

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
– William Faulkner, Author

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Committee–a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
~ Fred Allen

Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.
~ Brian Tracy

Your greatness is measured by your horizons.
~ Michelangelo

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
~ George Carlin

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
~ Charles Wadsworth

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.
~ Mitch Hedberg

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.
~ Joann Thomas

Don’t be afraid to take a big step if needed. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
~ Anonymous

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
~ James Allen

A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction.
~ Jesse Stoner Zemel

You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.
~ John Maxwell

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.
Marilyn Ferguson

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
~ General Omar N. Bradley

One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
~ Michael J. Fox

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
~ Robin Williams

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
~ Woody Allen

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
~ Anatole France

You can observe a lot just by watching.
~ Yogi Berra

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
~ Benjamin Franklin

~ We all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann

Eighty-five percent of the reason you get a job, keep that job, and move ahead in that job has to do with your people skills and people knowledge.
~ Cavett Robert

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
~ Thomas Morell

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
~ Publilius Syrus

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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
– Ralph Marston, Author

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
– Henry Ford, Industrialist

“My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.”
– William Rosenberg, Dunkin Donuts founder

“I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.”
– Herbie Hancock, musician

“Every time we’ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block and try something new.”
– Thomas J. Watson, executive

“He who hesitates is poor.”
– Mel Brooks, director

“I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.”
– Samuel Goldwyn, movie executive

“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.”
– Isaac Newton, scientist

From Pesikto Rabbati, 25, 2:

The adulterer strives to conceal his crime. What does God do?

He fashions the child of sin in the likeness of the adulterer.

R. Isaac said: “In theft, one party gains, and the other loses. In adultery, both parties gain pleasure. Who loses? The Creator. He is compelled to become a party in their crime, and to create their child together with the.”

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