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Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.
- Richard Bach

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It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous PHOTO

Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll

I set my own course through the ocean of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO


 

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus PHOTO

If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino PHOTO

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie PHOTO

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

I Sing Wild Songs Of Adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
- Zig Ziglar

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

A man can succeed at almost anything
for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
- Charles M. Schwab

Each man is the architect of his own fate.
- Appius Claudius

Adventure is the child of courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong

I ride the storm - cheering wildly.
I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What one has to do usually can be done.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Know that your life is designed to be an adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
- Bourke Cockran

To succeed, you need to find
something to hold on to,
something to motivate you,
something to inspire you.
- Tony Dorsett

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes
and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage
and with the best that you have to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer

You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)

There are those that look at things
the way they are, and ask "Why?"
I dream of things that never were, and ask "Why not?"
- Robert F. Kennedy paraphrase of George Bernard Shaw

All you have to do is look straight and see the road,
and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.
- Ayn Rand

Women are like teabags.
We don't know our true strength
until we are in hot water!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda

People grow through experience
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
- Benjamin Spock

It does not do to dwell on dreams, ...
and forget to live.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper

Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The challenge before us is to savor the unknown
and delight in the taste of possibility.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The common denominator for success is work.
- John D. Rockefeller

In the midst of crisis, boldly seize opportunity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best.
- Epictetus

Whatever it takes.
- Anonymous

Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous

I don't know the key to success,
but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
- Bill Cosby

Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill

Success is to be measured not so much
by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
- Dorthea Brande

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.
- William Arthur Ward

Patience, persistence, and perseverance.
A little more each day, a little better each day.

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

Having set a direction, begin - begin today.
Take action - take action every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it,
to find a hurt and heal it,
to find somebody with a problem
and offer to help solve it.
- Robert H. Schuller

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