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He that would fish,

Must venture his bait.

- Benjamin Franklin

When you are grateful,

Fear disappears and

Abundance appears.

- Tony Robbins

A man is called selfish not for

Pursuing his own good,
but for neglecting his neighbor's.
- Richard Whately

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Each of us has been generously gifted by parents,

Teachers, mentors, and others we can never repay.

So, in gratitude for what we have received, it is now

Our turn to generously gift the children, the up-and-coming,

And the down-and-out -- with no expectation that they can

Ever repay us … and with the hope that they will,

In turn, pay-forward to another generation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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- Abraham Lincoln 

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What do you pack when you pursue a dream?

And what do you leave behind?

- Sandra Sharp

Not everything that can be counted counts,

And not everything that counts can be counted.

- William Bruce Cameron

If you have something you don’t need,

Give it to someone who needs it.

It will come back to you in one way or another.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

- Maya Angelou

Faith is not belief.
Belief is passive.
Faith is active.
- Edith Hamilton

Keep your face always toward the sunshine …

And shadows will fall behind you.

- Walt Whitman

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The difference between ordinary and

Extraordinary is that little extra.

- Coach Jimmy Johnson

I don't believe in team motivation.

I believe in getting a team prepared

So it knows it will have the necessary

Confidence when it steps on a field

And be prepared to play a good game.

- Coach Tom Landry

The key to what we try to do is get our

Players to have the discipline to execute

The things they need to do to accomplish

The goals they have. This gets hard to do

Because of external circumstances.

- Coach Nick Saban

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Too many people spend money they

Haven’t earned, to buy things they don't want,

To impress people they don't like.

- Will Rogers.

It’s a toss-up when you decide to leave the

Beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Riches are always over estimated;

The enjoyment they give is more in

Pursuit than the possession.

- Sarah Josepha Hale

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If you are really thankful, what do you do?

You share.

- W. Clement Stone

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

- William Blake

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

- Nigel Hamilton

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The sad fact is that it looks more and more as if our national

Sport is not playing at all … but watching. We have become

More and more, not a nation of athletes, but a nation of spectators…

- John F. Kennedy

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that

We all inhabit this small planet; we all breathe the same air,

We all cherish our children’s futures, and we are mortal.

- John F. Kennedy

All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt

In our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have

Salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the

Ocean. And when we go back to the sea … whether it is to sail

Or to watch it … we are going back from whence we came.

- John F. Kennedy

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Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life …

Each year has grown better than the last.

- Lawrence Welk

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. 

Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. 

Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

- Henry Van Dyke

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year

Because it reminds us to give thanks and to count

Our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so

Little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.

- Joyce Giraud

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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow

Will be our doubts of today.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A negative mind never attracts happiness

Or material success, but it will attract their opposites.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

The best years of your life are the ones in which you

Decide your problems are your own. You do not blame

Them on your mother, the ecology, or the President.

You realize that you control your own destiny.

- Albert Ellis

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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may

Be solved by man. No problem of human destiny

Is beyond human beings.

- John F. Kennedy

There are risks and costs to a program of action.

But they are far less than the long-range risks

And costs of comfortable inaction.

- John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing

Our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is

A private hope and dream which fulfilled, can be

Translated into benefit for everyone and greater

Strength for our nation.

- John F. Kennedy

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None is more impoverished than the one

Who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency

That we can mint for ourselves, and spend

Without fear of bankruptcy.
- Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life … expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things, you have

Missed the target. Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target …
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

It's like this … I got sick and tired of coaches playing

For the TV. They'd be 20 points ahead with two minutes

To go and they'd be calling plays, waving their arms,

Showing off. My feeling was, when you knew the game

Was over, then sit down and shut up.

- Red Auerbach

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Everything we do should be a result of our

Gratitude for what God has done for us.
- Lauryn Hill

Willpower is the outgrowth of definiteness of

Purpose expressed through persistent action,

Based on personal initiative.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

If life has taught me anything, it’s that most of

The things you’ve worried about have never happened.

- Ruth Rendell

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Repeat anything often enough
and it will start to become you.
- Tom Hopkins

Sometimes your joy is the source

Of your smile, but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

I don’t know what’s going to happen,

But I didn’t want to sit at home and

Do ‘shoulda-coulda-woulda’.

- Jackie Joyner-Kersee

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If you don't know what you want,

You will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect.

It is important to know how to feel, how to respond

And how to let life in so that it can touch you.

- Jim Rohn

The will to win is having discipline with three

Or four minutes to go.

- Coach John Calipari 

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Not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies.
- Thomas Paine

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success

Depends at last upon yourself.
- Theodore T. Hunger

Maybe the day will come when I can sit back and be content.... 

But until that day comes, I intend to stay in the batter's box …

I don't let the big guys push me out of there anymore …

And keep hammering away.
- Hank Aaron

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I avoid looking forward or backward,

And try to keep looking upward.
- Charlotte Brontë

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

If you find that you're not, I hope you

Have the strength to start all over again.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I can't change the direction of the wind,

But I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

111216 a Stronger Than Negativity

The Daily Motivator message for
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Stronger than negativity

By Ralph Marston

Being positive is not a matter of hiding or denying what’s negative.
Being positive is being stronger than the negativity.
When you’re wrong, admit it. Then you can let the error go, correct
it, and move forward.
When you’re frightened, admit it. When you no longer fear the fear
itself, that fear loses power and you gain the strength to deal with it.
When something is not working, admit it. The sooner you do, the more solidly you can move on to something else.
You have the power to face the problems, to act on them, to come
out ahead. Engage that power by admitting what’s wrong, by choosing
to see it clearly.
Have the courage to shine a bright light on what’s holding you back. 
And you’ll find the strength to move successfully beyond it.

© 2016 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

From The Daily Motivator website at http://greatday.com/motivate/161112.html

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A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

- General Douglas MacArthur

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

- General Douglas MacArthur

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage

To make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the

Needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but

Becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity

Of his intent.

- General Douglas MacArthur

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Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

Control your own mind, and you may never be

Controlled by the mind of another.

- Napoleon Hill Foundation

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant,

To enact gratitude is generous and noble,

But to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

- Johannes A. Gaertner

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We … we need strength, we need energy,

We need quickness and we need brain in this

Country to turn it around.

- Donald Trump

Our military has to be strengthened.

Our vets have to be taken care of.

We have to end Obamacare,

And we have to make our country great again,

And I will do that.

- Donald Trump

Experience taught me a few things.

One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good

Something sounds on paper.

The second is that you're generally better off

Sticking with what you know.

And the third is that sometimes your best

Investments are the ones you don't make.

- Donald Trump