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Boy Quotes

Grim Cris — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:59 +0000

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. – Plato

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told. – Charles Dickens

If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. – Maya Angelou

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass of jar on my desk. – Stephen King

I was so poor growing up – if I wasn’t a boy – I’d have had nothing to play with. – Rodney Dangerfield

A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair, and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Unknown

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Famous Short Quotes

Grim Cris — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:39:50 +0000

“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” -Pablo Picasso

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. -W. Clement Stone

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. -Bill Cosby

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. -John Bowring

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot

Courage is a kind of salvation. -Plato

“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” - Russell Simmons

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Top 5 Mark Twain Quotes

Grim Cris — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:43:49 +0000

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”

The most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

In 20 years, you will be more dissapointed by what you didn’t do than by what you did.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

That’s all. Which was your favorite?

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Famous Quotes about Leadership

Grim Cris — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:52:25 +0000

1. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

2. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

3. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

4. A leader is a dealer in hope.

5. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

6. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

7. To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose’s egg.

8. No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

9. A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

10. Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

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Helen Keller Famous Quotes

Grim Cris — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:15:12 +0000

‘Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.’

‘We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.’

‘Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.’

‘Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.’

‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.’

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Zig Ziglar Quotes

Grim Cris — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:32:43 +0000

You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.

When you respond to life, that’s positive; when you react to life, that’s negative.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don’t hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down.Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

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Courage Quotes

Grim Cris — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:41:38 +0000

1. Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. – Tom Krause

2. The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. – Sven Goran Eriksson

3. The key to change… is to let go of fear. – Rosanne Cash

4. If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything. – Win Borden

5. A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd

6. Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. – Mark Victor Hansen

7. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. – Mark Twain

8. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill

9. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

10. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho

11. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle

12. One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history. – Sonia Johnson

13. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. – Bernadette Devlin

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Best Christmas Quote

Grim Cris — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:32:46 +0000

“Never worry about the size of you Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas

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Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta Famous Quotes

Grim Cris — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:44:08 +0000

‘All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.’

‘Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.’

‘You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Quotes

Grim Cris — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:40:38 +0000

‘The time is always right to do right’ – “The 100 Best Things Ever Said by Men” in South Africa’s Men’s Health magazine,

‘After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.’

‘Does anybody really think that they didn’t get what they had because they didn’t have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?’

‘For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.’

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