Friday, February 9, 2018

Resolve

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.
- - Barbara Walters

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. 
- - Margaret Mead

Stand for something, know what that something is.  Know what you won’t stand for, and don’t stand for it.
- - Helen Mae Boudreau (1946 - ), on her 62nd birthday

The force is within you.  Force yourself.

- - Harrison Ford

Whether you believe you can or can’t, you are right.

- - Henry Ford

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

- - William F. Scolavino

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan for they are keenly aware that “luck” is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.

- - Unknown 

What do we do?  We do what we have to; so we can do what we want to.
- - Denzel Washington’s movie, “Great Debators” 

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the first; but the size of the fight in the dog.
- - Dwight D Eisenhower

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, “We will never give up.  We will never capitulate.  It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail.

- - Jim Collins

No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something.  There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

-- Orison Sweet Marden (1850-1924) American Editor and Speaker

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
- - Jim Rohn, motivational speaker

Someone is sitting in the shade today, because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffet

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