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Thursday 9 June 2011

Quotes of interest.

I did a bit of hunting around on the Internet for a bunch of quotes to put on the blog. Here they are and I hope that some of them speak to you.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

They can because they think they can.
Virgil

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
Vince Lombardi

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
Jeremy Collier

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

Impatience never commanded success.
Edwin H. Chapin

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Anonymous

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Anonymous

How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Anonymous

I hope that you enjoy these quotes. I find that if I am having a difficult day, sometimes words of wisdom from someone can help me get through.

Carrie

1 comment:

  1. A friend of mine who is a police officer has a favourite quote that one of these reminded me of..

    'Don't ever look down on someone unless you are helping them up' - Anonymous

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