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Boys

If you are a pop band, don’t say you’re a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

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George A. Sheehan

It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.

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George Bernard Shaw

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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George Edward Woodberry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

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George S. Patton

I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.

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Country

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

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Bad Ass

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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George S. Patton

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

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Badass

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

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Courage

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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Gloria Steinem

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

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Golda Meir

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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H. G. Wells

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

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