Thoughts of Life

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

Arnold Palmer

 

 

 

 

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

Abraham Lincoln

 

Do what you can with what you have where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

Alfred A. Montapert

 

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

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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

 

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

 

 

Do not wait for extrordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Jean Paul Richter

 

 

 

 

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

 

 

 

 

Dale Carnegie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Josh Billings

 

 

 

 

 

You see things and say 'Why?';

but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' ".

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

 

 

 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Marilyn Vos Savant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.

Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

Carl Sandburg

 

 

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying.

 

Dale Carnegie

 

 

 

 

 

Footprints on the sands of time are never made by sitting down.

Unknown

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Mahatma Gandhi

A loser seldom lives in the present, but instead destroys the present by focusing on past memories or future expectations.

Muriel James

 

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

 

John Wayne

 

 

 

 

 

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Unknown

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Dale Carnegie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

Alexander Pope

Because

Niney-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George W. Carver

 

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve.

Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige

 

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.

Brian Tracy

 

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Lao-Tzu

 

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Dale Carnegie

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you.

They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them.

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

 

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

W.L. Bateman

 

 

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

 

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

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If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry.

Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

 

An age is called Dark Age, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

James Michener

 

 

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Elvis Presley

 

 

 

 

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Earlene Larson Jenks

 

 

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines.

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain