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Those who believe they can do something
by Henry Ford

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

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Quotes by Henry Ford

Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford

Profit is a by-product of work;
happiness is its chief product.
- Henry Ford

There is joy in work.
There is no happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

If everyone is moving forward together,
then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford

Failure is only the opportunity to
begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
- Henry Ford

If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford

Whether you think you can,
or think you can't,
you're right.
- Henry Ford

If you think you can,
or you think you can't,
you're probably right.
- Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

Those Quotes and Sayings

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

Belief fuels our decisions -
even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb

Know the best and highest choices for health
and more often choose those things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People are afraid, very much afraid of those who know themselves.
They have a certain power, a certain aura and a certain magnetism.
- Osho

Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein

Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein

In the long history of humankind (and animal-kind, too)
those who learned to collaborate and
improvise most effectively have prevailed.
- Charles Darwin

Those who own much have much to fear.
- Rabindranath Tagore

At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct,
and tends to produce ferocity toward
those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
- Bertrand Russell

The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best -
and therefore never scrutinize or question.
- Stephen Jay Gould

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.
I challenge you to join the ranks of those people
who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Tony Robbins

Stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills.
- the movie When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

When one gets angry, it is always angry AT someone -
perhaps a friend or spouse, perhaps a stranger,
perhaps the nameless "they" - "those people at the bank wronged me,"
perhaps God, or perhaps oneself.
In any case, when one gets angry,
they want to find someone to be "responsible" for what happened.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb

People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Identify your assumptions (what you believe).
Question how you feel when you hold those assumptions.
Visualize holding different assumptions.
Ask yourself how it feels to hold a different world-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
- Malcolm X

Things may come to those who wait,
but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

The majority of men meet with failure
because of their lack of persistence
in creating new plans to take
the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill

The most successful people in life
are generally those who have the best information.
- Benjamin Disraeli

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates

There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi

For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank

The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer

Success usually comes to those
who are too busy to be looking for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

Look at this butterfly, so beautiful, so delicate.
I can enjoy this butterfly from a distance,
but if I touched her, she would die.
While not quite as delicate as butterflies,
people also need private space and private time
away from the demands of the world -
even away from the attentions of those
with whom they are most bonded.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.
- Bob Proctor

People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though chequered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in the grey twilight
that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come,
not of booky teaching, but of experience.
- Mark Twain

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

At times our own light goes out
and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer

Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is hard to interest those who have everything,
in those who have nothing.
- Helen Keller

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches
as to conceive how others can be in want.
- Jonathan Swift

In this world there is always danger
for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

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