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Some time ago I began the practice of printing out motivational quotes, one to a page, and taping them to the wall leading to my home office. Sometimes I stop and read each one. Sometimes I just catch a peripheral glimpse as I walk by. In either case I find it beneficial.

Some are anonymous, but if possible I like to know the identity of the speaker. I feel that knowing what they actually accomplished in life gives more weight to the quote.

I still have some wallspace left and I`d like to add some quotes that have inspired others in the StartupNation community. Here are a few to start.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Success seems to be connected with action. Sucessful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don`t quit.
- Conrad Hilton

It`s not whether you get knocked down, it`s whether you get back up.
- Vincent T. Lombardi

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur




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`grab-a-job!` my Dad`s quote

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I am no longer posting on this forum. A fellow citizen here suggested that I should Think before I add commitary to my postings. I thought he was wrong, but I am mistaked(not everyone digs Mr.Wicks) E

I found the quote in my signature.  It`s pretty useful if even somewhat contrarian.

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"Forget inspirational quotes to keep you going. If by doing what you do, you get an hour every day to relax, be with the ones you love in comfort without doing wrong, then it is all worth it." -Anon.

I`m still hooked on the two following which I`ve posted elsewhere but which bear repeating:

If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I`m about to do today?  - Steve Jobs

What would you do if you knew you could not fail? - Gloria Vanderbilt to her son Anderson Cooper

I doubt I`ll ever grow tired of these two...

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MeLissa
Independent Chocolatier for Dove Chocolate Discoveries http://www.ChocoRocco.com Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/ChocoRocco

I just finished reading a great book called Marketing Genius by Peter Fisk. It is awesome. There is a part in the book where he defines a "Marketing Genius", however I think that his definition can also be applied to entrepreneurs. It is as follows:  " Genius Marketers........
    See what everyone else sees........and Thinks what no one has ever thought.
    Have access to the same skills and tools....and do what has never been done.
    Face the same problems....and are more successfull than anyone ever has been."

I really thought that this was an excellent definition of an entrepreneur as well. It is very inspiring to me anyway. Best Wishes!

Ken~

I don`t know any quotes. I guess that`s my problem. :) I should memorize one here. hmm, let`s see. Which one suites me?

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Vincent Wilcox (a.k.a. KRAKR)
Drummer
My band: Letters Make Words

The one in my signature.  You can look up the way Henry Ford officially said it...it`s a little stilted and old-fashioned, so I prefer the paraphrased version.

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"Whether you think you can or you think you can`t, you`re right."
paraphrased Henry Ford

This one is timeless and applies not only to mathematics, but to business and life in general.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
- Rene Descartes


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"There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand binary, and those that don`t."  (?)

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.  Avoiding danger is no safter in the  long run thatn outright exposure.  Life is either a daring adventure, or  nothing." (Helen Keller)

"Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.  The more you know, the more you learn; the more you  learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity. I don`t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime." (Richard Hamming)

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." (Dwight David Eisenhower)

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." (Horace Walpole)

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don`t have to worry about the answers." (Thomas Pynchon)

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.  (Confucius)

"A word after a word after a word is power."  (Margaret Atwood)