"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
— Zig Ziglar

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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
- John Muir

"Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine."
– Dane Rudhyar

“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” Swedish Proverb

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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
– Paul Tillich

"If your life is free of failures, you are not taking enough risk."
- Anonymous

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"To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others."
- François Mauriac

"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating."
– Honoré de Balzac

“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Marie Curie

"Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you."
— Zig Ziglar

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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
- Gautam Buddha

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“The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.” Bruce Barton

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind."
- Bruce Lee

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's."
– Henry Moore

Merry Christmas to all and Happy Holidays to the rest! Love ya.... Go, Go, Go... Dan :)

"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."
– Mencius

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind & sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." David Allen

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
– Henry Ward Beecher

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Merry Christmas!

“I just like to smile. Smiling is my favorite.”

Buddy the Elf
from the film, Elf (2003)

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing."
- George Bernard Shaw?

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"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
– Henri-Louis Bergson

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?” Vincent van Gogh

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"Almost all real new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."
- Alfred N. Whitehead

"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." – George Jean Nathan

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
– Sara Teasdale

“If you're going to help a man, you want to know something about him, don't you?” Joseph to Clarence, Angel Second Class from the film, It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

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"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can."
- Ashleigh Brilliant

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"We must stop assuming that a thing which never been done before probably cannot be done at all."
- Donald M. Nelson

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet

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"Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."
– Charles Caleb Colton

All those things I saw as "scars" became "stars" to light my path to healing! Jo Dozier-Latino

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King

"Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. "
- Unknown

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
– Alexandre Dumas

“One benefit of risking failure: the risk of success.” Sam Parker

"Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker

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"Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past." — Tom Peters

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“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” African proverb

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
– Lin Yutang

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- Wayne Gretzky

"When you win, say nothing, when you lose, say less."
- Paul Brown

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“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Our very lives, as ex-problem drinkers, depend upon our constant thought of others & how we may help meet their needs. Big Book, p. 20

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Ali! http://ping.fm/7LoW4

“If not now, when?” Hillel (30B.C.–10A.D.)

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"The most important thing for a young man is to
establish credit—a reputation and character."
— John D. Rockefeller

We are there to sweep off our side of the street, … never trying to tell him what he should do. —Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed., pgs. 77-78

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence."
- Buddha

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." – St. Francis de Sales

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. C.S. Lewis

When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag on it. 12&12, p.106

We think it no concern of ours what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals. Alcoholics Anonymous 4th ed, p. 28

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
– Booker T. Washington

"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."
- Charles W. Chesnutt

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"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives." Anthony Robbins

Self-confidence & a belief in yourself is a must. To instill confidence in others, you first must have confidence in yourself. B & C Pulsifer

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." – Thomas A. Edison

“ Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never. ” Sir Winston Churchill

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from.
All that matters is where you are going."
— Brian Tracy

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. Sarah Bernhardt

"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory."
- George S. Patton

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
– Benjamin Disraeli

The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing. Walt Disney

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. e.e. cummings

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"The most beautiful view is the one I share with you."
- Unknown

"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. "
- Ralph Ellison

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

"Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment."
– William Penn

“Character is much easier kept than recovered.” Thomas Paine

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
- Ninon de L'Enclos

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. "
- Kahlil Gibran

"A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein

"I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." Og Mandino

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it,
but to enable it. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. "
- Rabindrath Tagore

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson