GREAT AMERICAN PRESIDENTS

Theodore Roosevelt: "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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PEOPLE

They don't know, most of what they do not have, most of what they can not do, is vastly overrated, and would neither satisfy them, nor even be worth the effort of their pursuit; because our desires often begin with the fear of missing out, and end with the realization of being duped, having anxiously chased after that which is devoid of any real value. Try to be happy today. Right now. Look around. Enjoy the simple things.
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MOTIVATION

"I've never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.” "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.” "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.”
-Vince Lombardi
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HABITS

Habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- John Dryden
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PLANNING

Most people fail to reach their goals because they waste time worrying and waiting for some special inspiration to motivate them for one mighty blastoff they imagine is the only way they can win, someday. They plan to take BIG action.....tomorrow. But the day will never come when there is enough time to accomplish anything really big, while every day that goes by offers many opportunities to accomplish LITTLE parts of a big goal.
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