Daily Quote

thewilman

thewilman

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Hey guys...

I send out a daily quote to some friends and co-workers and I thought some of you might enjoy that. So, if there are no Mod issues, I would like to start posting it here as well. If you prefer to receive this or a daily Bible verse via email, please PM me with your email.

Thanks!

Daily Quote

September 19, 2007​

“Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.”

- Glen Beaman - US Author​
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Daily Quote

September 20, 2007​

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.”



- Vince Lombardi (1913 –1970) Former Head Coach of the Green Bay Packers and one the most successful head coaches in NFL history with 5 Championships including Super Bowls I and II.​
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This is a pretty good idea of yours.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
 
Daily Quote

September 21, 2007​

“I do not measure a man by how far he falls, but by how high he bounces.”

- Gen. George S. Patton (1885 –1945) U.S. Army general in World War II in campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, France, and Germany, 1943–1945.​
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The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- John Sladek
 
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day.
- Mickey Rooney
 
"It's not the disability that defines you, it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with. We have an obligation to the abilities we DO have, not the disability" - Jim Abbott, former MLB pitcher with a disability
 
Daily Quote

September 24, 2007​

“I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?”



-- Albert Einstein (1879 –1955) German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2.​
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Daily Quote

September 25, 2007​



“It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.”



-- Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937) Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology.​
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell
 
Daily Quote

September 26, 2007​



“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”



- Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1804 –1876) French novelist best known by her pseudonym George Sand.​
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Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times.


Winston Churchill
 
Daily Quote
September 27, 2007​

“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 –1969) Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II; First supreme commander of NATO; 34th President of the United States (1953–1961).
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"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen" - Dr. Robert Jarvik
 
Daily Quote

October 2, 2007​



"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."



- Garrison Keillor (1942 - present) American author, humorist, columnist, musician, satirist, and radio personality​
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Daily Quote
October 3, 2007​

"Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism."

--G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English writer whose prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction.
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Daily Quote
October 5, 2007​

"When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe​
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Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.


Katharine Hepburn
 
Daily Quote
October 10, 2007​

“In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance.”

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 –1832) German polymath: he was a poet, novelist, dramatist, humanist, scientist, theorist, painter, and for ten years chief minister of state for the duchy of Weimar.​
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bombBoogie said:
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.


Don Shula
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I'm a die-hard life-long DolFan and Shula fan! :head:

That must have been a pre-Marino quote...the Woodley years! I guess that quote could apply to EVERY QB the Phins have had since Marino as well! ;)
 
Daily Quote
October 11, 2007​

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

-- Samuel Clemens (1835 –1910) American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer better known by the pen name Mark Twain.​
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thewilman said:
I'm a die-hard life-long DolFan and Shula fan! :head:

That must have been a pre-Marino quote...the Woodley years! I guess that quote could apply to EVERY QB the Phins have had since Marino as well! ;)
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I know what you mean, the quote itself should not apply for Marino :D
 
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"


George Bernard Shaw
 
Daily Quote
October 12, 2007​

“First we form habits, then they form us.”

- Dr. Rob Gilbert - Professor at Montclair State University and one of the world’s leading experts on Sport Psychology.​
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Daily Quote

October 15, 2007​



“It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.”



--Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) Scottish Author and Reformer​
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