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The Time for Senseless Bickering

The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering! -- Ashleigh Brilliant (consequence of not acting.)

Small Attempts Repeated

Small attempts repeated will complete any undertaking. ? Og Mandingo

L'Amour - Victory is Won in Inches

Victory is not won in miles, but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. ? Louis L?Amour

Untapped Power

You have enormous untapped power that you will probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second. --William James

Booker T. Washington Measures Success

"Success is measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." -- Booker T. Washington

P.T. Barnum?s Advice on Work

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.? (P.T. Barnum, of Barnum and Bailey's Circus)

Truman Studies Great Men and Women

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work." --Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman

Success is Hard Work

Kemmons Wilson, Sr., founder of Holiday Inns, at a high school commencement: ?I really don?t know why I?m here. I never got a degree, and I?ve only worked half days my entire life. I guess my advice to you is to do the same. Work half days every day. And it doesn?t matter which half. The first twelve hours or the second twelve hours." (Source: Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

Dicken?s Commitment

"Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.? Famous Author Charles Dickens

General Grant On Keeping On

During the Civil War, General Grant was defeated at Shiloh. Newspapers everywhere demanded that Lincoln remove him. But Lincoln replied, ?I can?t spare this man. He fights. He?s got the grip of a bulldog, and when he gets his teeth in, nothing can shake him off.? He became known as one of the greatest generals of his time.

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