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Unknown: Work, love, dance
Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching.” —Unknown Author
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Benjamin Franklin: The stuff life is made of
“Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr: Remember
”Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Richard Simmons: Positive criticism
“Whenever I find something to criticize about myself–I will follow with a positive thought about myself.” ~ Richard Simmons http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/96436306
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Frank A Clark: Real generosity
Image via Wikipedia “Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” ~ Frank A. Clark Chicken Soup for the Soul
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Paula Abdul: Holding down
Embed from Getty Images “You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” -Paula Abdul Embed from Getty Images
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Howard Thurman: Come alive
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ~ Howard Thurman
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Unknown: Hugs
“Hugs are the universal medicine.” ~ Author Unknown, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Preteens Talk Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul
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Abraham Lincoln: Character
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing…” —Abraham Lincoln
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Paulo Coelho: Simple things
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary, but only the wise can see them.” —Paulo Coelho
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Strategy: Keeping it simple, indeed.
"We have a strategic plan. It’s called doing things." ~ Herb Kelleher, Southwest Airlines
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Albert Camus: Invincible summer
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus Embed from Getty Images
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Brian Tracy: So can you
“For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.” –Brian Tracy
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Khalil Gibran: Ungrateful to these teachers
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” —Khalil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931).
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Henry David Thoreau: Enthusiasm
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.” ~ Henry David Thoreau Embed from Getty Images
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Carl Jung: Terrifying
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ~ Carl Jung Embed from Getty Images
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Zig Ziglar: Motivation
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~Zig Ziglar
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Alexandre Dumas Père: Wait and hope
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Peter Drucker: Useless
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. — Peter Drucker Related articles What if Peter Drucker Taught Enterprise 2.0 Strategy? (fredzimny.wordpress.com) What if Peter Drucker Taught Enterprise 2.0? (Presentation) | Seek Omega (seekomega.com) What if Peter Drucker Taught Enterprise 2.0? (Presentation) (cloudave.com) What would Drucker…
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Unknown: Only one life
“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.” ~ Author Unknown
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Mahatma Gandhi: Happiness
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/139840847
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Joseph Addison: Happy marriage
“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason – and indeed all the sweets of life” ~ Joseph Addison Embed from Getty Images
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Charles de Montesquieu: Useless Laws, Necessary Laws
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. -Charles de Montesquieu, philosopher and writer (1689-1755).
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Pierre Bayle: Neither less wit nor less invention
“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” —Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706). http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/463969919
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Jonathan Swift: Satire
Image via Wikipedia “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.” —Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745).
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George Orwell: Insincerity
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. -George Orwell, writer (1903-1950) Embed from Getty Images
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Edmund H North: Gambles and calculated risks
“I think there’s a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk. ” —Edmund H North
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Robert Brault: Rabbits and intelligence
If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit. -Robert Brault, writer (b. 1938)
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Anu Garg: God, A Verb
‘“God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper,” designer and architect R. Buckminster Fuller once said. And it makes sense. As long as we do our work honestly and not hurt others, what does it matter if we believe in some invisible superman in the sky, who happens to…
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Ken Kesey: Funny side
Image via Wikipedia ”You can’t really be strong until you see a funny side to things.” ~ Ken Kesey
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Thomas Jefferson: Shake off all the fears
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than…
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William Blake: Truth and Lies
”A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” ~ William Blake.
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Unknown: Happiness, trials, sorrow and hope
“May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human & enough hope to make you happy.” ~ Author Unknown.
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Wayne W. Dyer: Circumstances
“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer Embed from Getty Images
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Zig Ziglar: Friendship
“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” ~ Zig Ziglar.
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Nelson Mandela: Head and Heart
Image via Wikipedia “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” —Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel laureate (b. 1918).
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Importance of why
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Albert Einstein: Dangerous place
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” ~ Albert Einstein.
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld: Neither last nor first
http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/74809293 “It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.” —Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680).
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Louis Heath Leber: Always room for improvement
“There’s always room for improvement, you know – it’s the biggest room in the house.” ~ Louise Heath Leber.
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Michel de Montaigne: Firm belief
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.” —Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592) http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/171073526
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Speaking loudly
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Robert Frost: Worry and work
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.” ~ Robert Frost.
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Soren Kierkegaard: Life, backwards and forwards
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard.
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Ben Hecht: Second hand of a clock
Image via Wikipedia Embed from Getty Images Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer (1894-1964)
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Paulo Coelho: Scarring, complaints and sainthood
“Don’t complain because our scars are our medals. But hit back whenever it’s possible, because we are not saints.” —Paulo Coelho. http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/150574555
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Beverly Sills: Shortcuts
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ~ Beverly Sills, from Chicken Soup for the Soul: Shaping the New You.
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Jack Lynch: Grammar and style
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs. -Jack Lynch, English professor, author (b. 1967) Embed from Getty Images
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Will Durant: Fatal to certainty
“Inquiry is fatal to certainty.” —Will Durant, historian (1885-1981).
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Henry David Thoreau: Better alive than dead
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862) Embed from Getty Images
