From the quote file (I collect these - I know, big loser )
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
- Dale Carnegie
"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."
- Ralph Marston
Reality doesn’t go away just because you can’t see it.
--Alex
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
- Calvin Trillin
The desert sure knows how to make a point.
- Alex.
We have more ability than willpower. It is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine things are impossible.
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed Howe
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Thoreau
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
Jules Renard
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure, and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.
William Trogden
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches.
Kahlil Gibran
"Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler."
- F.M. Cancian
"Pain is temporary, pride is forever."
- Anonymous
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' -- the pig was 'committed'."
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W.M. Lewis
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
- Henry Ford
Life is a cement trampoline.
Howard Nordberg
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
The Marathon – pain is certain, suffering is optional
Joe Howard
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man could in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard
Personal demons are notoriously bad bicyclists, and are dropped in the first mile ~ Justin Crawford
2. If it is to be, its up to me!