Dr. Samuel Johnson

The future is purchased by the present.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

Dr. J. knows what he is talking about in that quote. The work that you do today will pay off with dividends tomorrow. However, if you sit on your butt, you will pay a large price for your inaction.

You deserve a good tomorrow. Give it to yourself by living today with an eye toward the future. You can do it.

Shantideva

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
Shantideva

The last thing I would want you to do is to ignore trying to solve your problems, but we worry about the silliest things sometimes.

Some people tell you to use the ten-year rule. There are very few problems that we remember after ten years. So why worry about temporary problems that ultimately amount to nothing?

Let it go. Life is too short.
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Michael Jordan

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been truste to take the game-winning shot... and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

What more can be added to that? Just keep fighting the good fight, and someday you will win!!!

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Zig Ziglar

Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.
Zig Ziglar

The Big Zig is right. You are capable. It is up to you to endure your present situation or to change it.

You can create a beautiful world.

You can find love.

You can be a success.

It is your choice because you are capable.
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Virgil

Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."
Virgil 70-19 BC

You have been given a certain amount of time to walk the earth. How much? You don't know. But you do know that one day you will pass from this world.

You must live now.
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John Shedd

A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd

It is common to be apprehensive of change, new things, discovery. Do not worry. It is not so tough. Every infant comes into this world without any idea of who he is, where he is or what is happening.

Life is to be experienced, not feared. Go!! Explore!! Change your life.

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Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody. Nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success takes work, unless you get lucky and win the lottery. I would retire tomorrow if I bought a million-dollar ticket. But that will only happen to a very small group. Most of us will have to put in the sweat if we want to see results.

No man has any right to ask for more than your best, but you should never settle for less than it.
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Mickey Rooney

You always pass failure on your way to success.
Mickey Rooney

Ah, the Mickster knows what he is doing. He was a small-time actor. He became the biggest draw in the world. Then he was a has-been. And finally, he made his way back into some important pictures.

What would have happened if he had given up along the way? He wouldn't have enjoyed the many successes of his career.

If you want success, you must keep fighting the good fight. You don't have to win each and every day. Mickey sure didn't. Sometimes life is hard, hard, hard.

But if you don't keep trying, you will never succeed. You deserve success as much as anybody else. I want you to win. To do that, you must try.
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Rochefoucauld

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

I think good old Frank has a point.

Because we are so very close to the ones that we love, we begin to fight with them more than others. We don't mean to hurt them, but fighting becomes part of the relationship. It should not be this way.

In life we resist and fight back when we see a problem. It is one of the ways in which we solve problems.

But when we fight with our loved ones, we must be fighting to save our relationships.

Otherwise, we are most assuredly fighting to end them.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do... Build, therefore, your own world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no promises, but the world is waiting for you to go out and explore. Your dreams are your destiny, if you believe. Spread your wings and fly.

And then come back and tell us about it.

Martin Luther King is missed greatly

That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everyone blind.
Martin Luther King

Sometimes, the just action in response to an injury or trespass is to take no action. Will the world be a better place because of your response? If not, maybe you should temper your feelings with a little forgiveness.

The world is not perfect, but what you do in life does affect it. Are you helping it inch closer to perfection or are you driving it away? The way you answer that question will tell you what action to take.

St. Thomas

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
St. Thomas Aquinas

You can't explain faith. You have it, or you do not. If you have it, you are one of the lucky ones.

You know who to thank for that, don't you?

The deal about John Neal

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
John Neal

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"Man is as strong as the circumstances require, and as weak as the circumstances allow."
Joseph Kinaim

We can rise to whatever challenge faces us. We can, and we must. Life is precious. Embrace it. Every bit of it.

Kinda Fonda Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Please remember this quote when it is your turn to forgive or to be forgiven. It can be hard -- on both sides.