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In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid

Make the best use of what is in your power,
and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus

Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Set interim goals, preferably daily goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All that is necessary to break the spell
of inertia and frustration is this:
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi

A man can fail many times,
but he isn't a failure until
he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs

Don't quit.
- Anonymous

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid;
if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.
- Tony Rothman

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

Don't let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

There are no secrets to success.
It is the result of preparation,
hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

If we will be quiet and ready enough,
we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau

I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He that would fish, must venture his bait.
- Benjamin Franklin

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
- Lance Armstrong

Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison

The key to everything is patience.
You get the chicken by hatching the egg,
not by smashing it open.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes

The price of success is hard work,
dedication to the job at hand,
and the determination that whether we win or lose,
we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

It is hardly possible to build anything,
if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
- Lech Walesa

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

People in their handlings of affairs
often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end
as he was at the beginning,
there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
- Horace

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd

While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you,
till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,
never give up then, for that is just
the place and time the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

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

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell

I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline
when you're a winner, when you're number one.
What you've got to have is faith and discipline
when you're not yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

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

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

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

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air.
They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie