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QUOTES ~ WISE PEOPLE

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind, that determines which way we will go."

Jim Rohn

"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me."

Ayn Rand

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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin

"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Yogi Berra

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"You can't wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club."

Jack London

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"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman"

Margaret Thatcher

"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

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"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."

Henry Kissinger

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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

Marilyn Monroe

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces."

Will Rogers

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that. But the real greats make you feel that you, too, can be great."

Mark Twain

"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only place 'success' comes before 'work' is in the dictionary."

Vince Lombardi

"You must think and act like a proton: always be positive."

Unknown

"Women will never be as successful as men because they don't have wives to advise them."

Dick Van Dyke

"The difference between genius and stupidity is genius has its limits."

Albert Einstein

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

Tim Notke

"Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

Alan Dundes

"Wisdom comes from experience. Experience often comes from a lack of wisdom."

Terry Pratchett

"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."

John Wooden

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." 

Margaret Thatcher

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what then is an empty desk a sign of?"

Albert Einstein

"Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce." 

Unknown

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." 

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."

Thomas Sowell

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too." 

W. Somerset Maugham

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton

"There is no such thing as a free lunch."

Milton Friedman

"Daylight is said to be the best of disinfectants."

Louis D. Brandeis

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."

Benjamin Franklin

"I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game 'Monopoly'."

Steven Wright

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them 'Sure, I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one."

Oscar Wilde

"Here's your law: If a company can't explain in one sentence what it does, then it's illegal."

Lewis Black

"Work so hard that one day your signature will be called an autograph."

Tim Notke

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

Charles Kettering

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