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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

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Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

If you stand up and be counted,
from time to time you may get yourself knocked down.
But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again.
A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
- Thomas J. Watson

Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James

Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

You must live in the present,
launch yourself on every wave,
find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau

Hitch your wagon to a star.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus

Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]

Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

What are you committed to?
Have you started, or are you still thinking about it -
and making excuses?
Do you work toward your goal each day?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca

We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When life gives you lemons, Make Lemonade.
- Anonymous saying

Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
- Harvey McKay

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

We have not yet begun to fight.
- John Paul Jones

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

With the past, I have nothing to do;
nor with the future. I live now.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand Tall, Breathe Deep, Be Unstoppable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not look for approval
except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Andrew Carnegie

Pessimism never won any battle.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
- Napoleon Hill

Without a humble but reasonable
confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint in your mind a picture of
bright and happy expectations,
you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Choose! If it's worth doing, do it today.
If it's not worth doing today, save yourself a lot
of worry and regret by choosing to permanently
erase it from your to-do list.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If only the people who worry about their liabilities
would think about the riches they do possess,
they would stop worrying.
- Dale Carnegie

People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

What if we just acted like everything was easy?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Gardening is all about optimism.
I put a seed in the ground.
I consistently tend it,
confident I will see the results, in time,
of the nurture I have provided.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The highest thinkers of the ages,
the seers of the tribes and the nations,
have been optimists.
- Helen Keller

If you believe that a task will be difficult, it will be -
and you will have suffered with worry beforehand.
Approach life with joy and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have a choice every day regarding
the attitude we will embrace for that day.
- Charles Swindoll

Everything is okay in the end.
If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
- Anonymous

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence.
- Vince Lombardi

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach

If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous

The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

Shallow men believe in luck.
Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you build it, he will come.
- the movie Field of Dreams

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher

Whatever happens, always look to tomorrow -
with courage and optimism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills

Believe that life is worth living,
and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Never quit.
- Anonymous

If you look for the bad in people
expecting to find it, you surely will.
- Abraham Lincoln

Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans

The winds of grace are always blowing;
all we need to do is raise our sails.
- Anonymous

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

Not all Heroes wear capes.
- On an Apple Inc. "Genius Bar" T-shirt

Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao

All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Just Do it!
- Nike ad

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie