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LIFE & SUCCESS "A man searches the world over seeking true happiness, only to return home to find it." "The older I get, the better I used to be." ~ NBA player Connie Hawkins (About the past) "...the way I see it, You can either run from it, Or learn from it." ~ Rafikki (to Simba) in Disney's The Lion King "If you learn from your suffering, And really come to understand the lesson you were taught, You might be able to help someone else, Who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all..." "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." ~ Robert Frost "Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it." ~ Coach Lou Holtz "But to us, probability is the very guide of life." ~ Bishop Butles Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. ~ Mary Hemingway "This life at best is but an inn, and we the passengers." ~ James Howell "The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance." ~ T.H. Huxley "Perhaps you can't be a star, but you need not be a cloud." "What is popular is not always right; what is right is not always popular." "Opportunity knocks so many times it has raw knuckles." ~ Barry Neil Kaufman "The only place where money comes before success is in the dictionary." ~ Keith Hermann "If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." "Allegory is dangerous and it imprisons the imagination." "Our company has indeed "stumbled" onto some of its new products." "But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving." ~ Richard P. Carlton, President, 3M Corportation "I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." ~ Jonathan Winters "Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." ~ Jules Bernard "Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead of you." "Every pitch, perfect or not, is a potential home run." ~ Preacher Roe "Don't major in minor things." ~ H. Jackson Brown "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing right things." ~ Peter Drucker "Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's sunshine." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never underestimate your power to change yourself." ~ H. Jackson Brown "I am a slow walker, but I never walk back." ~ Abraham Lincoln "Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." ~ Lord Chesterfield. "You cannot do everything at once but you can do everything once." "The hardest thing abvout climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom." "He who has health and hope has everything." ~ Ababian Proverb "One often wonders why they are called the secrets of success when everybody is always telling them to everyone else." "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement." "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." ~ Winston Churchill "Jumping to conclusions is not half as good an exercise as digging for facts." Know Any Good Quotes? E-mail me here! Copyright © 1997, 2000 The use of any of this material without the consent of the author is strictly prohibited