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Our Chief Need in Life

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. -- Emerson, The Conduct of Life, 1860

Made a Difference to That One

One day, after a big storm, a man was walking on a beach. On the sand were thousands of starfish, all doomed to die in the mid-afternoon heat. The man continued walking until, up the beach, he saw a child picking up the starfish and throwing them back into the ocean. The man walked over to the child and said, "What are you doing? You can't possibly save every starfish on the beach. The afternoon sun will dry out all of them. Don't waste your time. What difference can it possibly make?" The child bent down, picked up a starfish and threw it into the ocean. "It makes a big difference to that one," he replied. - Jon Rosenberg

Part of Problem or Solution?

You?re either part of the problem or part of the solution. ? Eldridge Cleaver

Serving as a Horrible Example

No man is completely worthless. He can always serve as a horrible example. -- Unknown

Michael Jordan on Vision

I visualized where I wanted to be, what kind of player I wanted to become. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there. -- Michael Jordan

Blurring Work and Play

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. -- Arnold Toynbee

Work as Life's Greatest Prize

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt, former US President

Here Lived a Great Street Sweeper

If a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ?Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Grandma Moses Paints

Grandma Moses started painting when she was in her seventies and painted over five hundred works of art that are celebrated around the world. (Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

What Do Millionaires Want?

A television talk show had a panel of millionaires. Each of them was asked, ?What is your goal?? Not one answered, ?To make money.? For each, the goal was the challenge of making it to the top. (Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

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