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If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca
Related topics: Motivational
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous
Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Pick up a stone that feels good to you
and is small enough to hold in one hand.
Consider how long that stone has been around
and what enormous pressure it has experienced.
Draw strength from its long history.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply
about what you believe in.
When you stumble, keep faith.
When you're knocked down, get right back up.
And never listen to anyone who says
you can't or shouldn't go on.
- Hilary Clinton
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
Unexpected events can set you back or set you up.
It's all a matter of - perspective.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Life should not be a journey to the grave
with the intention of arriving safely
in a pretty and well preserved body,
but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, "Wow! What a Ride!"
- Hunter S. Thompson
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind
a mental picture of yourself as succeeding.
Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
Your mind will seek to develop the picture...
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain fall softly on your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
- Irish Blessing
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget,"
is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -
torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man,
but if you're up there and you can hear me ...
show me the way... show me the way.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Life is a journey. It is not a race to test
who can finish first or who can end up with the most loot.
Rather, life is best enjoyed as a meander -
watching the view to left and right - above and below -
as the days slowly move past in dress review.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Better learn balance. Balance is key.
Balance good, karate good. Everything good.
Balance bad, better pack up, go home. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Good manners sometimes means simply
putting up with other people's bad manners.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
- Henry David Thoreau
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy,
if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you,
if the simple things in nature have a message you understand,
Rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleanora Duse
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
We cannot solve a problem by saying,
"It's not my problem."
We cannot solve a problem by hoping that
someone else will solve it for us.
I can solve a problem only when I say,
"This is my problem and it's up to me to solve it.
- M. Scott Peck
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being.
With freedom comes responsibility.
For the person who is unwilling to grow up,
the person who does not want to carry is own weight,
this is a frightening prospect.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen
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