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These Are Some of My Favorite Quotes If you're looking for some daily inspiration, this is a good page to bookmark and come back to ocassionally. You can find quotes like this (with cool pictures of the wise ones) on coffee mugs I sell at CafePress. They make great gifts and add a personal touch to business relations. “I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” “If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” “I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?” “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.” "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate." "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful." “Think of the small as large.” "Men are disturbed not by things but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things." "You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear." “They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.” “What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” “Do or do not. There is no try.” "Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." "This is the true joy of life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... the being a force of Nature, instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." Play and Pretend to Work “I didn’t have all the expectations and the publicity. It probably made me work harder and learn more. It was a blessing in disguise.” “If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.” “The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.” "For those that will fight for it ...FREEDOM... “If you have a talent, spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.” "Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people." “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” “Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; ‘tis enough to know the Laws themselves.” "Intelligence is like four-wheel drive .. it just gets you stuck in more remote places." "Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion." "Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." "Action is the foundational key to all success." "Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now." "What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us" “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” “Bloom where you’re planted.” “Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.” “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” “No pressure, no diamonds.” “The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.” “He who has never failed is he who has never tried.” “Reality is causal.” “An idea is a feat of association.” “If you want to feel good, be rational.” “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” “The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.” “When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.” “The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.” “Arouse in the other person an eager want.” “Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you’ll learn to do it better.” “Be a producer, not a consumer.” “Right now, the world is new.” “It is so. It cannot be otherwise.” “If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” “I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.” “Practice beats talent when talent doesn’t practice.” “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” “Annuit coeptis” – Providence has favored our undertakings. “Daily ingredients: Family, friends, exercise, sun, work, music” “Your ideas are your dogs. Love them, and give them your attention when they beg for it.” “Lack of time is the new poverty.” “The best work never was and never will be done for money.” “No monkey mind.” “Action follows desire.” “A part of all I earn is mine to keep.” “This is true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act and, in acting, to live.” “If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.” “Core selling ideas: Who are you? What are you doing? Who are you helping? How are you different?” “Nothing is more beautiful than something unusual.” “It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.” “Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond… the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.” “Make promises. List benefits. Create attractive images.” “Outcome only improves when you ignore it and attend to the nitty gritty.” “I greet the new sun with the confidence that this will be the best day of my life.” “Focus on the desired result.” “When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.” “If you don’t know where you’re going, every road leads there.” “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do… So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” “The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.” “Out of the strain of the Doing. Into the peace of the Done.” “The lack of plodding forward – not the lack of the ability to dream – is what makes a failure of the otherwise great human beings in this world.” “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four sharpening the axe.” “Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.” “Naturalness: You do not have to force yourself to drink water when you are thirsty; you are glad to drink water. Not Naturalness: When your mind is entangled in some other idea, someone else’s idea, and you are not independent, not yourself, not natural.” “By placing a lot of emotion into having, you heighten not having (and make yourself poorer).” “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasury.” “You must have – in your heart – a commitment to customer service that goes beyond good sense and the desire for profits. It must be deep, and it must be strong, and must endure.” “Kaizen” “Have one breakthrough every day. It’s possible. Look for it.” “The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.” “Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained from easier terms.” “All you have shall some day be given: Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.” “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a nice and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming… “Wow, what a ride!” “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative.” “The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” “All men should strive to learn, before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
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Unless you'd like to be inspired. Here's a quote I like: “What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.” - Mary Pickford You can find quotes like this (with cool pictures of the wise ones) on coffee mugs I sell at CafePress. They make great gifts and add a personal touch to business relations.
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