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Words to Live By
Reviewing these quotes each day will help you build a strong, flourishing NSE business. But more importantly, they will help you live a richer, happier and more satisfying life. If you have a favorite quote or saying that you'd like us to include, please email it to us. Thank you.
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." -- Jackie "Moms" Mabley
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"One of the most beautiful compensations of this lifetime is that no man cannot sincerely help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
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"You'll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."
-- Wayne Gretzky
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"There are two kinda people in this world: those with loaded guns and those who dig." -- Clint Eastwood
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"I'd rather have one percent of a hundred people's efforts than one hundred percent of my own." -- Andrew Carnegie
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"It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise."
-- Nancy Thayer
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"Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment."
-- Maxwell Maltz
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"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." -- Daniel Boone
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"Choose your rut carefully; you'll be in it for the next ten miles."
-- Road sign in Upstate New York
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"The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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"I believe:
That to have a friend, a man must be one.
That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world.
That God put the firewood there, but every man must gather and light it himself.
That sooner or later, somewhere, somehow, we must settle with the world and make payment for what we have taken."
-- from The Lone Ranger's Creed
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"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." -- Pamela Vaull Starr
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"If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
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"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it ceased
to be one." -- Mark Twain
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"Optimism is an intellectual choice." -- Diana Schneider
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"Do or do not -- there is no try." -- Star Wars
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"If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else." -- Yogi Berra
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"A successful person is a mediocre person who got mad."
-- Martha Lowrey
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -- Albert Einstein
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"As a man thinketh so is he." -- Jesus
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"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way."
-- Johann von Goethe
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"What you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." -- Johann von Goethe
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." -- Helen Keller
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"Everything in your life is a miracle to be cherished. A grain of sand, a bee on a flower, a sailboat, a cup of coffee, a wet diaper, a caterpillar, are all miracles. When you learn to view life and everything in it as a miracle, you soon see that complaining is a waste of the miracle that you are."
-- Wayne Dyer
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"I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts." -- Horace Mann
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become." -- Buddha
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
-- Vermont proverb
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"What you are speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You will seldom experience regret for anything you've done. It's what you don't do that will torment you.
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"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." -- William Penn
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"Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble."
-- French proverb
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"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life." -- Harvey Mackay
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"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business ... Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down." -- Ray Bradbury
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"The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth."
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots, the other is wings." -- Hodding Carter
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward." -- Soren Kierkegaard
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do, rather than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-- Mark Twain
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The world really isn't much worse than it ever was. It's just that the news coverage is so much better. -- from Bits & Pieces
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value." -- Goethe
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"Thinking is simply your soul talking to itself." -- Plato
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"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." -- Colin Powell
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"Our deepest Fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest Fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." -- Nelson Mandella
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"I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened." -- Mark Twain
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"Fear is excitement without breath." -- Robert Heller
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"The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try."
-- Malcom F. MacNeil
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During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln made a speech in which he talked sympathetically about the Southern rebels.
An elderly lady, a staunch Unionist, upbraided him for speaking kindly of his enemies, rather than speaking in terms of destroying them.
"Why madam," Lincoln responded, "when I make them my friends, do I not in fact destroy my enemies?"
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"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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