See Thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but never vulgar. The friends Thou hast, and their adoption tried; Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgement. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous in that. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all; to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Tou canst not then be false to any man. - Hamlet, Act I, Scene II William Shakespeare

Prepare. The time to win your
battle is before it starts.
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Frederick WE LewisThe winds blow strongest
against those who stand tallest.
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E. C. Hayes Those who dare to fail miserably, can achieve greatly.
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Robert F. Kennedy There is only one proof of ability- results. Men with ability in action get results.
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Harry RF. Banks By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.
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Italian proverb The habits of vigorous minds are formed in contending with
difficulties...great necessities call out great virtues.
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Abigail Adams The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so
badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable.
Favorable conditions never come.
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C. S. Lewis For decades great athletic teams have harbored one simple secret that only a few select business teams have discovered, and it is this: To play and win together, you must practice together.
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Lewis Edwards No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
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L. Ogden Armour The best leaders are very often
the best listeners. They have an open mind.
They are not interested in having their own way
but in finding the best way.
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Wilfred Peterson You don't always have to like each other, but you have to be able to count on each other. When my team calls on me, I'll be ready. When they set the ball down, I'll put it through.
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George Blanda Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson We will either find a way, or make one.
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Hannibal The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
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Thucydides We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.
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Maxwell Maltz The men who try to do something and fail are infinately better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
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Lloyd Jones Don't find fault, find a remedy.
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Henry Ford I'm only a reflection of what our team is.
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Jim Zorn Trust men and they will be true to you,
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson To promote cooperation remember:
People tend to resist that which is forced upon them.
People tend to support that which they help to create.
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Vince Pfaff The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
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Anonymous Give all the credit away.
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John Wooden Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfull citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only doing that ever has.
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Margaret Mead Large scale success today is spelled "Teamwork." The successful team worker doesn't wear a chip on his shoulder, doesn't look for slights, isn't constantly on the alert lest his "dignity" be insulted. He puts the good of the house - the company or team - first. And if the whole prosper, he, as an active, effective, progressive part will prosper with it.
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B. C Forbes Once you learn how good you really are,
you never settle for playing less than your best.
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Reggie Jackson Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
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Bertrand Russell Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
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Tom Landry The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.
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Knute Rockne Amateurs hope.
Professionals make it happen.
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Garson Kanin If you're already walking
on thin ice, you might as well dance.
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Gil Atkinson Why go into something to test the waters? Go into it to make waves.
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Michael Nolan High achievers spot rich opportunities
swiftly, make big decisions quickly, and move into
action immediately. Follow these principles and
you can make your dreams come true.
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Dr: Robert Schuller Pick battles big enough
to matter, small enough to win.
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Jonathan Kozol Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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David Lloyd George It is not because things are difficult
that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that things are difficult.
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Seneca There are risks and costs to a program of action but they are far less
than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
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John F. Kennedy A good plan vigorously executed
right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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General George Patton I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure which is: Try to please everybody.
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H. B. Scope Pay no attention to what the critics say;
no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
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Jean Sibelius To get profit without risk,
experience without danger, and reward
without work, is as impossible as it is to
live without being born.
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A. P. Gouthey The moment you commit and quit
holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents,
meetings and material assistance will rise up to
help you. The simple act of commitment is a
powerful magnet for help.
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Napoleon Hill Success requires three bones
wishbone, backbone and funnybone.
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Kobi Yamada Formula for success:
Underpromise and overdeliver.
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Tom Peters Anything I've ever done that ultimately
was worthwhile. . .initially scared me to death.
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Betty Bender Take your job seriously but learn to laugh at yourself.
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Don Ward The fight is won or lost far away
from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym
and out there on the road, long before
I dance under those lights.
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Muhammad Ali Throw your heart over the bars
and your body will follow.
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Veteran trapeze performer It's important to take pride
in what you do or what you stand for.
The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the
arrogant puffed up kind; it's just the whole idea
of caring fiercely caring.
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Red Aurbach Anybody can come up with new ideas.
What's in short supply are innovative people -
persistent mavericks who believe so strongly
in an idea, they will do whatever it takes
to make it a working reality.
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Michael LeBoeuf One person with a belief is equal
to a force of ninety nine who have only interests.
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John Stuart Hill It's a funny thing about life.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
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Somerset Maugham Most people never run
far enough on their first wind to find out
they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've
got and you'll be amazed at the energy
that comes out of you.
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William James There is no failure
except in no longer trying.
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Elbert Hubbard Good ideas are not adopted
automatically. They must be driven into
practice with courageous patience.
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Admiral Hyman Rickover People don't really care
how much you know until they know
how much you care.
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Mike McNight Life owes us little; we owe
it everything. The only true happiness
comes from squandering ourselves
for a purpose.
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John Marm Brown He who has a 'why'
to live for can bear almost any 'how.'
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Nietzsche Live your life so that your children
can tell their children that you not only
stood for something wonderful
you acted on it.
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Dan Zadra I'm just a country plowhand,
but I've learned to get a team beating with one
heart: If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything
goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes
real good, they did it.
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Paul "Bear" Bryant If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Trust each other again and again.
When the trust level gets high enough,
people transcend apparent limits, discovering
new and awesome abilities for which
they were previously unaware.
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David Armistead You can't help getting older, but you don't
have to get old. New dreams, new works in progress -
that's the ticket for a long and happy ride.
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George Burns Just think of something that everyone
agrees would be "wonderful" if it were only
"possible." Then set out to make it possible.
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Armand Hammer A genius is a person
who aims at something no one else
can see and hits it.
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Ervin L. Glaspy To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
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Rosaheth Moss Kanter Great minds
have purposes; others have wishes.
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Washington Irving The first and most
important thing about goals
is having one.
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Geoffrey Abert Extraordinary people visualize not
what is possible or probable, but rather what is
impossible. And by visualizing the impossible,
they begin to see it as possible.
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Cherie Carter-Scott The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowin how to get along with people.
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Thomas Roosevelt If you don't have a dream, how can you have a
dream come true?
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Faye LaPointe Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures
or architecture or anything else,
is always a portrait of himself.
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Samuel Butler Beware of thoughts that come in the night.
They're not turned properly; they come in askew,
free of sense and restriction,
deriving from the most remote of sources.
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William Least-Moon, "Blue Highways"


RH: It's true, isn't it? You were to be
executed because of a woman! What was
her name?
HZ: Yasmin.
RH: Yasmin; was she worth it?
HZ: Worth dying for.
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Robin Hood, Prince of Theives Morgan Creek Productions, 1991
I learn, as the years roll onward
and leave the past behind,
that much I had counted sorrow
but proves that God is kind;
That many a flower I had longed for
had hidden a thorn of pain,
and many a rugged bypath
led to fields of ripened grain.
We must live through the dreary winter
if we would value the spring;
And the woods must be cold and silent
before the robins sing.
The flowers must be buried in darkness
before they can bud and bloom,
and the sweetest, warmest sunshine
comes after the storm and gloom.
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UnknownNever give all the heart, for love
will hardly seem worth thinking of
to passionate women if it seem
certain, and they never
dream that it fades out from kiss to kiss;

For everything that's lovely is
but a brief, dreamy kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
for they, for all smooth lips can say,
have given their hearts up to the play.

And who could play it well enough
if deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
for he gave all his heart and lost.
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W.B. Yeats What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving
and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
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Victor E, Frankl; Nazi POW Survivor Man's Search For Meaning, 1959 Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and
try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and
work; you don't give up.
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Anne Lamott Bird by Bird, 1995 The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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Albert Einstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only
think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the
solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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Buckminster Fuller Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
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Anonymous During a recent interview, Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain was asked by one of his Parliament members as to why he believes so much in America, and does he think America is on the right track?

Blair's reply: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in, and how many want out." The Legacy of Ronald Reagan

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong."

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.