Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Quotes on different things


Ambition
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Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
-Will Rogers
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People often say that motivation doesn’t last. 
Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
-Zig Ziglar
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
-Bryant H. McGill
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It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
-Mark Twain
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Shoot for the moon. 
Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.
Les Brown
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Beauty
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A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
-Johann von Goethe
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting — a wayside sacrament.   
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not beauty that endears, it’s love that makes us see beauty.
-Tolstoy
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Change
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Gandhi
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
-Basho
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
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I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
- Maya Angelou
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Children
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Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-Charles R. Swindoll
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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
-Abigail Van Buren
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Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Courage
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
-Winston Churchill
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
-Mark Twain
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Courage is a kind of salvation.
-Plato

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