Grand Thoughts
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
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Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
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It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
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Happiness is a state of activity.
- Aristotle

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln

You haven't failed until you quit trying.
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The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
- Plutarch

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
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Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser

He who flings mud, loses a lot of ground.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
- Brian Weir

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
- Tom J. Connelly

Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
- St. Francis De Sales

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese proverb

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
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People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
- Sister Busche

Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
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You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
- Professor Harrold Hill (The Music Man)

Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
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You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
- Paul H. Dunn

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
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Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
- David O. McKay

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
- L. A. Rouchefolicauld

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
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If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
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If you feel you have no faults ... there's another one.
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“Go out on a limb. That is where the fruit is.”
—Jimmy Carter, President

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Fear is not of the present, but only of past and future - which does not exist.
A Course in Miracles

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

When you are afraid of something you are acknowledging it's power to hurt you.
A Course in Miracles

Nothing is accidental
There are no mistakes
You are doing what you are doing when you are doing it
There are no victims

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." --Benjamin Franklin

"He who angers you conquers you." --Kenny, Sister Elizabeth,

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance ---Will Durant

If you never change your mind, why have one?--Edward De Bono

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
Groucho Marx

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."