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QUOTES


Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
Art Linkletter
(1912 - 2010)

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
Jim Rohn,
American entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker
(1930 - 2009)

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
American Businessman
(1887 - 1979)

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

Steve Jobs

 American business magnate, Industrial designer, Instructor & Media proprietor

 (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011)


"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist
(1879 - 1955)

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston S. Churchill

British Prime Minister

(1874 - 1965)


          "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."
Vidal Sassoon
English Hairdresser
1928 - 2012


          "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Alva Edison
American Inventor and Businessman
(1847 - 1931)


          "I have always been grateful for the tolerance my parents showed for the ambition I had for a strange profession. Not many young people have the obsession to draw a comic strip, and it was a difficult ambition to understand, but they never tried to discourage me, or point me in a different direction."
Charles M. Schultz
Cartoonist
(1922 - 2000)


Katharine Hepburn once told me, "It's not what you do in life, it's what you finish!" But many people don't even start, because they are afraid of failure. To me the only failure is when you don't even try. So set your path, be brave, do your best and smile, because you are doing all of the above.
Martina Navratilova
Tennis Hall of Famer
Born 1956

"The achievement of excellence requires great effort, much planning, and even more time. But, in the long run, mediocrity cost more, drains your energy, and wastes even more time than it takes to do things right."
Dr. Norman Lamm
Retired Chancellor, Yeshiva University
Born December 19, 1927

"Experience proves that most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over."
Paul J. Meyer
Founder, Leadership Management International
Born 1928

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere, if only out of curiosity.
Colin L. Powell
Four-star General; former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Born April 5, 1937

"Never get into the thick of thin things!"
Robert Duane Ballard
Oceanographer
(found the wreck of the Titanic)
Born June 30, 1942

"Some of my fondest memories in sports were a result of failure, injuries, setbacks, or mistakes. I learned far more about myself and gained more character in those difficult times than I ever did when success came easily."
Peter Vidmar
Olympic Gold Medalist, Gymnastics
Born June 3, 1961


"America is the greatest country in the world. You can be anything you want to be within the laws of God and man. You can make your dreams come true if you work hard, stay focused on your goal and give back to the community that supports you."
R. David Thomas
Founder,
Wendy's International
(1932 - 2002)

"As the automobile commercial says, excellence is about the relentless search for perfection. It is not a search for 'good enough.' It is a search for perfection."
Peter G. Peterson,
American investment banker
(1926 - 2018)

"Every individual matters, non-human as well as human. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. We cannot live through a single day without making an impact on the world around us. And we all have free choice--what sort of difference do we want to make? Do we want to make the world around us a better place? Or not?"
Dr. Jane Goodall
Wildlife researcher
Born April 3, 1934

"The 'habitual contemplation of greatness' - in Alfred North Whitehead's rubric - must inform and inspire us.  Greatness - and excellence - are best and most lastingly communicated through the arts."
J. Carter Brown, Director Emeriitus
National Gallery of Art
(1934 - 2002)

"The 'habitual contemplation of greatness' - in Alfred North Whitehead's rubric - must inform and inspire us.  Greatness - and excellence - are best and most lastingly communicated through the arts."
J. Carter Brown, Director Emeriitus
National Gallery of Art
(1934 - 2002)

Leadership means having the courage to make decisions, not for easy headlines in ten days but for a better country in ten years.
Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Born March 20, 1939

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 - 1945
(November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965)


True excellence requires a worthy dream, a good idea of how to realize it, and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
(Born August 19, 1946)


Service is the rent we each pay for living. It is not something to do in your spare time; it is the very purpose of life.
Marian Wright Edelman
Founder, Children's Defense Fund
(Born 1939)


A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)

Man becomes that which he gazes upon.
George Harrison
Musician
(1943 - 2001)

Excellence demands the pursuit of seemingly unattainable goals. Those teachers and schools that truly succeed are those which inspire their students to move beyond the expectation of conventional wisdom.

James D. Watson

Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine; co-discoverer DNA

(Born April 6, 1928)


Do one thing every day that scares you.

Anonymous


 
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