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What a great idea - here are a few of my favorites:

What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to
what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must do the thing you thing you cannot do
Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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Here are a couple more to think about.

To do a common thing, uncommonly well, brings success.
 - H.J. Heinz

You miss 100% of the shots you don`t take.
 - Wayne Gretzky


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Steve, I`m glad you started this thread. A simple quote can do wonders.

Here`s another George Bernard Shaw for you:

"Some men see things as they are and say `why?` Other men dream of things that never were and say `why not?

And a couple of others:

"A pessimist is one who sees difficulties in his opportunities. An optimist is one who sees opportunities despite the difficulties"         ; Harry S Truman

This is one of my favorites of all time:

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.    
~Theodore Roosevelt

~Eric

 

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~Eric
JE Design Group, LLC
If all you do is what you`ve done, then all you`ll get is what you`ve got.
www.jedesigngroup.com

 

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

 

Btw - Canadiasian, I love your last one (the one by Willy Brandt)

Pierre

LOL Pierre!

Along that line:

"No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer."

-Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft

He was off only by approximately infinity I think. LOL!!

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~Eric
JE Design Group, LLC
If all you do is what you`ve done, then all you`ll get is what you`ve got.
www.jedesigngroup.com

Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you`re getting.
- W. Edwards Deming

This can be a sobering thought. I understand Dr. Deming tried in the 1950s to teach American auto companies his principles of quality control. When rejected he took his message to the Japanese auto makers. They listened.




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I don`t know whose quote this is, but I like this one:

"Those who refuse to think outside the proverbial ‘box’ are imprisoned in it; and destined to be buried in it."

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"I am here to live out loud."  Emile Zola

 

This one silences my inner critic and keeps me going after what I want in life.

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I love motivational quotes! My brain doesn`t always work well enough to tell myself what I need to hear to keep moving...and others can say it just right! My all time favorite is this one!

"Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell."-- Peter Brock

and

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." -David Brinkley

and

“Here`s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the trouble makers. The round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They`re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can`t do is ignore them, because they change things, they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”    -- Apple Computers, Think Different

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Leah Tucker

I, too, love quotes.  and there are several that come to mind, but some of my favorites are:

Richard Nixon:  "You can`t enjoy the view, until you climb the mountain."

John F. Kennedy:  "The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust, sweat, and blood.  Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion. Who spends himself in a worthy cause who at best in the end knows the triump of high achievement and if he fails, fails while daring greatly so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls that no neither victory or defeat."

Unknown: "Character is what you are in the dark."

Just a few of my favorites.