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Notable Quotables

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Do It Now! "You Become Successful The Moment You Start Moving Toward A Worthwhile Goal."

- Anonymous

"To be courageous...is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to all of us."

- John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

"We know not the future, and cannot plan for it much. But we can ...determine and know what manner of men we will be whenever and wherever the hour strikes."

- Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment

"...institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened; as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered, and manners and opinions change, with the changes of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times."

- Thomas Jefferson, 1787

"In the long run, the race belongs not merely to the swift, but to the farseeing, to those who anticipate change."

- Lykes Lines

"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped."

- Lyman Lloyd Bryson

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Things do not change, we do."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; The realist adjusts the sails."

- William Arthur Ward

"You only see an obstacle in life when you take your eyes off the goal."

- Anonymous

"Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look for the good in everything, that you absorb the quality of beauty."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

"Winning is a reflex action. If you've been there in your mind, you'll go there in your body."

- Denis Waitley

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"I never notice what has been done. I only see what remains to be done."

- Madam Curie

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."

- Mary Kay Ash

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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