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Who Are You?
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. -- Thomas Jefferson
Falling on One's Face
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. -- Victor Kiam
Optimism
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. -- Helen Keller
The Keys to Success
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. -- Confucius
Mistakes
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. -Bruce Lee
Do Your Best
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. -- Og Mandino
Moving On
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. -Theodore Roosevelt
Giving Up
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -- Thomas A. Edison
Women
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Respect
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him. -William Lyon Phelps
Fitness
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it. -Alan Thicke
Marriage
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. -James Dobson
Lucky Lucy
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball
Political Actors
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a ...
Political 3rd Rail
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Real Apology
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Party Pooper
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk ...
Student Debt
Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, ...
Respect
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. -Bryant H. McGill
True Stupidity
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
Life
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. -Bruce Lee
Trust
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. -George MacDonald
Comfort Zone
So you have to force yourself out of a comfort zone and really try to figure out what are the key ingredients, the key skill sets, the key perspectives that are necessary, and then figure out a way to attract the very best people to fill those particular roles. -- ...
Fighting Skill
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. -- Sun Tzu
Grappling
More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride. -- Dan Gable