Motivational Quotes (6)

MURPHY'S LAWS OF COMBAT
7. Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays

Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Who you are speaks so loudly, I can hardly hear what you are saying.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one is less ready for tomorrow than the person who holds the most rigid beliefs about what tomorrow will contain.
The Visionary's Handbook

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose.
Benjamin Lipson

When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word "succeed," you find that it simply means to follow through.
F.W. Nichol

Renewal is the principle and the process that empowers us to move on an upward spiral of growth and change, of continuous improvement.
Stephen Covey

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy

Talking to customers tends to counteract the most self-destructive habit of great corporations, that of talking to themselves.
John Brooks, author

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou

Perhaps once in a hundred years a person may be ruined by excessive praise, but surely once every minute someone dies inside for lack of it.
Cecil G. Osborne

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
William A. Foster

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Sir William Osler

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
Babe Ruth

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill

Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Napoleon Hill, author

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napolean Hill

The sun's always shining, even when you can't see it.
Anonymous

Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

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