What Did They Say - Part 7

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends. ~ William Feather

People forget how fast you did a job-but they remember how well you did it. ~ Howard Newton

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A good life is a collection of happy memories. ~ Denis Waitley

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth. ~ Albert Einstein

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. ~ Albert Schweitzer

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others. ~ Danny Thomas

Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. ~ Blaise Pascal

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Benjamin Franklin

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What Did They Say - Part 6

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! ~ Marcus Aurelius

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. ~ Elmer G. Letterman

When you’re down to nothing, God is up to something. The faithful see the invisible, believe the incredible and then receive the impossible. ~ Unknown

While I can run, I’ll run; while I can walk, I’ll walk; when I can only crawl, I’ll crawl. But by the grace of God, I’ll always be moving forward. ~ Cavett Robert

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision. ~ Nido Qubein

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~ Unknown

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. ~ David Brink

While there’s life, there’s hope. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Words Of Wisdom

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. — Tom Landry

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. — Vince Lombardi

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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another, and of strength to be derived by unity. — Vince Lombardi

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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. — Vince Lombardi

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Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. — Vince Lombardi

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Any man who is afraid of failure will never win! Any man who is afraid to die, will never really live! — General George Patton

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Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. — General George S. Patton

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — General Colin Powell

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