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July 10th, 2010 Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon July 3rd, 2010 You can't talk your way out of what you've behaved yourself into. ~Stephen R. Covey June 26th, 2010 The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change and the leader adjusts the sails. ~J.Maxwell June 19th, 2010 The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. ~Theodore Hesburgh June 12th, 2010 The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. ~Robert Brault June 5th, 2010 Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure. ~Napoleon Hill May 29th, 2010 It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it. ~S. Maugham May 22nd, 2010 If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's. ~Chris Brogan May 15th, 2010 Do not be to timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson May 8th, 2010 Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. ~Muhammad Ali May 1st, 2010 Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. ~Mike Ditka April 24th, 2010 Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum April 17th, 2010 Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain April 10th, 2010 Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. ~John Wooden April 3rd, 2010 Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must, but never, ever give up. ~Dean Karnazes March 27th, 2010 Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~Malcolm S. Forbes March 20th, 2010 Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"! ~Audrey Hepburn March 13th, 2010 Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. ~Doug Ivester March 6th, 2010 Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. ~Henry Ford February 27th, 2010 Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ~Albert Einstein February 20th, 2010 Decide that you want it more than you're afraid of it. ~Bill Cosby February 13th, 2010 Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ~Napoleon Hill February 6th, 2010 The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing. ~Benjamin Franklin January 30th, 2010 Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ~Patton January 23rd, 2010 You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. ~Dr. Suess January 16th, 2010 The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ~Walt Disney January 9th, 2010 Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. ~Truman Capote January 2nd, 2010 Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson December 26th, 2009 Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means. ~Albert Einstein December 19th, 2009 It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. ~Zig Ziglar December 12th, 2009 Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. ~Ayn Rand December 5th, 2009 Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping to make it safely to death. ~Bob Proctor November 28th, 2009 The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. ~Richard Bach November 21st, 2009 Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia November 14th, 2009 One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ~Benjamin Disraeli November 7th, 2009 There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master. ~Bobby Darin October 31st, 2009 People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours. ~Unknown October 24th, 2009 There is no security on this earth; only opportunity. ~Douglas MacArthur October 17th, 2009 A year from now you may wish you had started today. ~Karen Lamb October 10th, 2009 The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~Lao Tzu October 3rd, 2009 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. ~John Adams September 26th, 2009 The price of greatness is responsibility. ~Sir Winston Churchill September 19th, 2009 Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You are going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. ~Tony Robbins September 12th, 2009 If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum September 5th, 2009 If you haven't gotten to where you are going; you aren't there yet. ~George Carlin August 29th, 2009 Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. ~Samuel Johnson August 22nd, 2009 You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~Winston Churchill August 15th, 2009 I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn August 8th, 2009 The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ~Socrates August 1st, 2009 The first wealth is health. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson July 25th, 2009 It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw July 18th, 2009 We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. ~John F. Kennedy July 11th, 2009 In every success story, you find someone who has made a courageous decision. ~Peter F. Drucker July 4th, 2009 As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace. ~Epic of Gilgamesh June 27th, 2009 The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. ~William Boetcker June 20th, 2009 The only way to get mediocre is one step at a time. You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day. ~Seth Godin June 13th, 2009 First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. ~Epictetus June 6th, 2009 In life you need either inspiration or desperation. ~Tony Robbins May 30th, 2009 Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. ~Anonymous May 23rd, 2009 Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. ~Davy Crockett May 16th, 2009 To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. ~Hugh Prather May 9th, 2009 To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job. ~Chin-Ning Chu May 2nd, 2009 If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. ~George Bernard Shaw April 25th, 2009 Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. ~Ayn Rand April 18th, 2009 Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha April 11th, 2009 I am a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down. ~Abraham Lincoln April 4th, 2009 With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. ~Dalai Lama March 28th, 2009 Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~Mark Twain March 21st, 2009 How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver March 14th, 2009 Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ~William Ellery Channing March 7th, 2009 Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. ~Alexander Pope February 28th, 2009 A thousand people will have the same idea today, each under the illusion that he or she is unique in their thought. One might do something with it. ~Steven Scott February 21st, 2009 A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ~Christopher Reeve February 14th, 2009 Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ~Ayn Rand February 7th, 2009 Anger is never without reason, but seldom with a good one. ~Benjamin Franklin January 31st, 2009 I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent. ~Donald Draper (Mad Men) January 24th, 2009 Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ~Barack Obama January 17th, 2009 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Sir Francis Bacon January 10th, 2009 Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. ~Helen Keller January 3rd, 2009 Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time. ~Marian Wright Edelman December 27th, 2008 The world is now too dangerous for anything less than utopia. ~R. Buckminster Fuller December 20th, 2008 Either you run the day or the day runs you. ~Jim Rohn December 13th, 2008 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man. ~George Bernard Shaw December 6th, 2008 Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. ~Tom Krause November 29th, 2008 If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. ~Lewis Carroll November 22nd, 2008 Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake. ~Dale Carnegie November 15th, 2008 Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. ~Albert Einstein November 8th, 2008 Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony November 1st, 2008 I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ~Tony Robbins October 25th, 2008 Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. ~Ernest Hemingway October 18th, 2008 When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value. ~Thomas Edison October 11th, 2008 You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays. ~Professor Harold Hill October 4th, 2008 I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ~Stephen Hawking September 27th, 2008 I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ~George Washington September 20th, 2008 The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. ~Oscar Wilde September 13th, 2008 The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard September 6th, 2008 We get to make a living; we give to make a life. ~Winston Churchill August 30th, 2008 I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ~Harry S. Truman August 23rd, 2008 The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely. ~Donny Deutsch August 16th, 2008 You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. ~Michael Phelps August 9th, 2008 A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ~Ayn Rand August 2nd, 2008 People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. ~Zig Ziglar July 26th, 2008 Well done is better than well said. ~Benjamin Franklin July 19th, 2008 No man is free who is not master of himself. ~Epictetus July 12th, 2008 Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls. ~David Thomas July 5th, 2008 You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck June 28th, 2008 You cannot paint the "Mona Lisa" by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters. ~William F. Buckley, Jr June 21st, 2008 Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. ~G.B. Stern June 14th, 2008 When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874 June 7th, 2008 Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson May 31st, 2008 Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. ~Ronald Reagan May 24th, 2008 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. ~Dale Carnegie May 17th, 2008 A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. ~Tony Robbins May 10th, 2008 Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers May 3rd, 2008 You must motivate yourself everyday. ~Matthew Stasior April 26th, 2008 Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~Edmund Burke April 19th, 2008 If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~Lucy Larcom April 12th, 2008 The way to succeed is to double your error rate. ~Thomas J. Watson April 5th, 2008 Where there is one brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. ~Henry David Thoreau March 29th, 2008 Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs. ~Theodore Roosevelt March 22nd, 2008 A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams. ~Anonymous March 15th, 2008 May you live all the days of your life. ~Jonathan Swift March 8th, 2008 In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. ~Unknown March 1st, 2008 There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. ~Robert Fripp February 23rd, 2008 Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~Jacques Prevert February 16th, 2008 An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. ~John H. Patterson February 9th, 2008 If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. ~Tony Robbins February 2nd, 2008 Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. ~Donald Trump January 26th, 2008 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. ~Anonymous January 19th, 2008 Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. ~Robert Schuller January 12th, 2008 A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe January 5th, 2008 We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ~Albert Einstein December 29th, 2007 Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~Pablo Picasso December 22nd, 2007 In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!' ~Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide" December 15th, 2007 In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer December 8th, 2007 Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~Benjamin Disraeli December 1st, 2007 It's bad luck to be superstitious. ~Bill Backman November 24th, 2007 We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. ~Harrison Ford November 17th, 2007 Change your thoughts and you change your world. ~Norman Vincent Peale November 10th, 2007 I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so his place will be proud of him. ~Abraham Lincoln November 3rd, 2007 The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. ~Richard Bach October 27th, 2007 The longer I live, the more certain I am that enthusiasm is the little recognized key to success. ~Frederick Williamson October 20th, 2007 To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. ~Theodore H. White October 13th, 2007 You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt October 6th, 2007 Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. ~Laurence J. Peter September 29th, 2007 Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. ~Mario Puzo September 22nd, 2007 You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour. ~Anonymous September 15th, 2007 We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. ~Brigham Young September 8th, 2007 It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you. ~Robert A. Cook September 1, 2007 There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is. ~William George Jordan August 25th, 2007 Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. August 18th, 2007 Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. ~George S. Patton August 11th, 2007 Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~Albert Einstein August 4th, 2007 It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you. ~Rodney Dangerfield July 28th, 2007 The best things in life aren't things. ~Art Buchwald July 21st, 2007 Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. ~Mary Hemingway July 14th, 2007 Self confidence carries conviction, it makes other people believe in us. ~O.S. Marsden July 7th, 2007 There is nothing like a dream to create the future. ~Victor Hugo June 30th, 2007 The best love affairs are those we never had. ~Norman Lindsay June 23rd, 2007 Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again. ~Michael Johnson June 16th, 2007 No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne June 9th, 2007 The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin June 2nd, 2007 This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. ~Charlie Brown May 26th, 2007 There is no security in life, only opportunity. ~Mark Twain May 19th, 2007 Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ~Jim Rohn May 12th, 2007 There comes a time when silence is betrayal. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. May 5th, 2007 Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ~Walter Anderson April 28th, 2007 Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds. ~Anonymous April 21st, 2007 If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. ~Jonathan Winters April 14th, 2007 When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain April 7th, 2007 Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you. ~Miguel de Unamuno March 31st, 2007 Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ~Lao Tzu March 24th, 2007 There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart... pursue those. ~Michael Nolan March 17th, 2007 Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~Andrew Jackson March 10th, 2007 There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen. ~Hugh Prather March 3rd, 2007 Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. ~Danny Kaye February 24th, 2007 Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~Robert F. Kennedy February 17th, 2007 Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ~James Anthony Froude February 10th, 2007 If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ~Marcel Proust February 3rd, 2007 A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ~William Shedd January 27th, 2007 Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. ~Lance Armstrong January 20th, 2007 Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe January 13th, 2007 If everyone is thinking alike, then someone isn't thinking. ~General George Patton January 6th, 2007 Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. ~Douglas MacArthur December 30th, 2006 When you're going through hell - keep on going! ~Winston Churchill December 23rd, 2006 Even If I am a minority of one, truth is still the truth. ~Mahatma Gandhi December 16th, 2006 It is immoral to see evil and not act on it. ~Robert F. Kennedy December 9th, 2006 People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. ~Dale Carnegie December 2nd, 2006 Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?" ~Anonymous November 25th, 2006 Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. ~Cherie Carter-Scott November 18th, 2006 I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way. ~David O. McKay November 11th, 2006 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. ~Annie Dillard November 4th, 2006 Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. ~Andre Dubus October 28th, 2006 In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. ~Theodore Roosevelt October 21st, 2006 And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~Abraham Lincoln October 14th, 2006 What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him. ~Louis L. Mann October 7th, 2006 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 More Quotes for Men Copyright
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