Profound Quotes

Curiosity

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Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we are curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
-- Walt Disney

Winning

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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

-- Roger Bannister, runner

Doing Good

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Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as you can.

-- John Wesley (1703-1791) Founder of the Methodist Church

Procrastination

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"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."

-- Mary Frances Berry

Create Value

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"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein, scientist

New Year

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Another fresh New Year is here…
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright New Year is given me
To live each day with zest…
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!

-- William Arthur Ward

Business Advantage

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"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage."

-- Jack Welch, General Electric CEO

Before Success

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"No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
-- Napoleon Hill

High Achievement

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It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement. And at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- President Theodore Roosevelt (Paris 1910)

Character

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"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger…for the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grief's we endure help us in our marching onward."

-- Henry Ford

Personal Growth

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"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny."
-- Alan Cohen

Opinionated

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"If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better."
-- John C. Maxwell, author

Indifference

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“Some people die at twenty-five and aren’t buried until they are seventy-five.”
-- Benjamin Franklin

Life's Journey

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"There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going."
-- Mark Caine, author

Choice

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"A man, who does not make a choice, makes a choice."
-- Jewish folk saying

Take Stock Of Yourself

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"Look at your past. Your past has determined where you are at this moment. What you do today will determine where you are tomorrow. Are you moving forward or standing still?"
-– Tom Hopkins

Imagination

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"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination; they think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building."
-– Robert Collier

Educate First

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"Education must precede motivation."
-– Jim Rohn

Accountability

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"Don't blame others for your failure to be fully accountable for your own life. If others are to blame then you have given them control."
-- Bob Perks (Speaker and Author)

Discipline

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"When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself."
– Albert Einstein

Circumstances

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Inspiration

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"The greatest composer does not sit down to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working."
-– Ernest Newman

Obstacles

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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." -– William Ellery Channing

Giving

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“Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don’t give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.”
-- David DeNotaris from his book, “Feeling Your Way Through Life”

Dealing With A Problem

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“There is always something you can do about any problem, even it if is just changing your perspective on how you feel about the problem.”
-- David DeNotaris