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“People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing...
- T H A T ' S     W H Y     W E        R E C O M M E N D     I T     D A I L Y ! "     -Zig Ziglar
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“Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker.”
- Willie Nelson
"It's more fun to say YES than no...Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Life is so much more fun if you GET OUT THERE and VENTURE!"
- Sir Richard Branson
“Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”
- Ella Fitzgerald
“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
- Edwin Markham
"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering."
- Anne Louise Germaine de Staƫl
"No milestone is too small to celebrate."
- Adrianne Haslet-Davis
“The only cure for grief is action.”
- George Henry Lewes
"It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live."
- Anatole France
"I'm all in with this training."
- Shalane Flanagan
“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”
- Anne Sullivan Macy
“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
- Dean Acheson
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”
- Anne Lamott
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”
- Nicholas Murray Butler
“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king..."
- Abraham Maslow
“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.” -RenĆ© Decartes
- RenƩ Descartes
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
-Victor Frankl
"Revolution begins with the self, in the self..."
- Toni Cade Bambara
“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”
- Malcolm Muggeridge
“I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.”
- Stephen Sondheim
“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.”
- David Livingstone
"Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being...Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is IT."
- William Gibson
when asked 'What will save humanity?'
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
- Andrew Jackson
quoting
Napoleon Bonaparte
“'Tisn't life that matters. 'Tis the courage you bring to it!”
- Hugh Walpole
"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."
- Jack Kerouac
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