S Archives - Page 5 of 15 - Quote of the day

Basketball

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

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Les Brown

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

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Inspirational

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

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Food

It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

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Drinking

The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it.

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

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Inspirational

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

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History

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

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Gymnastics

Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

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Inspirational

Failure is success if we learn from it.

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Margaret Thatcher

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

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Inspirational

Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

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Change

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

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Hate

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

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Inspirational

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

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