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100% of the shots not taken don’t go in.— Wayne Gretzsky
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.— Winston Churchill
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.— George S. Patton
A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything.— Unknown
Action is the foundational key to all success.— Pablo Picasso
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.— Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one.— Mark Twain
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.— Wendell Johnson
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.— Mark Twain
Be the change that you want to see in the world.— Mahatma Gandhi
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.— Anonymous
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.— Josh Billings
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.— Mark Twain
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.— Will Rogers
Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.— James Michener
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.— Robert Benchley
Electricity is really just organized lightning.— George Carlin
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.— Thomas Jefferson
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.— Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.— Will Rogers
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.— Steven Wright
Fall seven times, get up eight.— Japanese Proverb
Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.— William Durant
Fortune favors the prepared mind.— Louis Pasteur
Good things come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle.— Abraham Lincoln
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.— Samuel Johnson
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.— George Burns
He who knows best knows how little he knows.— Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.— Thomas Jefferson
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.— Annie Dillard
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself.— Norman Vincent Peale
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection.— Michael J. Fox
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.— Michael Crichton
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.— Thomas Jefferson
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.— Calvin Coolidge
I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.— George Burns
I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.— Carl Sandburg
I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.— Michael Jordan
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.— Milton Berle
If there is no wind, row.— Latin Proverb
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.— Vince Lombardi
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.— H.G. Wells
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.— Carl Sagan
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.— Thomas Jefferson
It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.— Voltaire
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.— Mark Twain
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.— Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.— Andrew Cenany
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.— Jim Rohn
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.— Annette Funicello
Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.— Anonymous
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.— Leo Buscaglia
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.— Will Rogers
Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.— Winston Churchill
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.— Thomas Jefferson
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.— Eleanor Roosevelt
Not all those who wander are lost.— J.R.R. Tolkein
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing happens unless first we dream.— Carl Sandburg
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.— Thomas Edison
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.— Zig Ziglar
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.— John Quincy Adams
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.— George Bernard Shaw
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.— Henry Ford
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.— Oscar Wilde
The beginning is always today.— Mary Wollstonecraft
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.— Will Rogers
The best way you can cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.— Mark Twain
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.— Chinese Proverb
The harder I work, the luckier I get.— Samuel Goldwyn
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.— E. E. Cummings
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.— Charles Dubois
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.— Lao Tzu
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.— Mark Twain
The most important trip you may ever take in life is meeting people halfway.— Henry Boye
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.— Robert Byrne
The time is always right to do what is right.— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.— Anonymous
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.— Mark Twain
There’s a great power in words, if you don’t hitch too many of them together.— Josh Billings
Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.— John Wooden
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.— Henry James
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.— Mark Twain
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.— Unknown
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.— Malcolm Forbes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.— Mark Twain
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.— Robert Frost
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.— Aristotle
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are will show in what you do.— Thomas Edison
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.— Goethe
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.— Thomas Jefferson
Whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.— Henry Ford
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.— Frank Zappa
You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.— Charles Kettering
You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.— Will Rogers