Inspiring Quotes

[ShadeTree]

This is one I really like:

“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” - J.R.R. Tolkein

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"To reach a port, we must sail—Sail, not tie at anchor—Sail, not drift."
~ Franklin Roosevelt ~

"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."
~ Henry Ford ~

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- William Morrow -

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"Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself."

- F. Hawes -

[mjdoug03]

I need to look at this more often!

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"We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it."
- Mary Blake -

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"Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

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"Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense."
- F.E. Willard -

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"To be; or not to be; that is the question." Hamlet

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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."
-- Denis Waitley

[plennis]

I love to check in and read through these quotes every now and then, some I had heard others are new to me.  But it most always is uplifting. 

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"Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken, if he had brought only a part of himself to his task? The great secret of his career has been that he has flung his whole life, not a part of it, with all the determination and energy and power he could muster, into everything he has undertaken. No dillydallying, no faint-hearted efforts, no lukewarm purpose for him!"
- Orison Sweet Marden -

[landonb82]

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

-Kevin Durant

[DeliriousKris]

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

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“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.” – Bill Copeland

I agree with that one!