John Wooden

Do the best you can. That is what counts.

Topic: Action, Work
Location: Glacier National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Perfection

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. — John Wooden

Life Time

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings everyday. — John Wooden

Blessing Gratitude Prayer

Action Life Opportunity Preparation

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

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Perception Society

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You pass the test when you do what you say. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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Action

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspiration Perseverance Persistence

Doing your best requires getting better. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Respect Society Virtue

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Honesty Self Truth

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Deeds, not words shall speak me. — John Fletcher

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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

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› Albert Schweitzer

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I am fundamentally an optimist. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela

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He that will have the kernel, must crack the shell. — Dutch Proverb

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To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to “know” is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. — Napoleon Hill

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Greatness is a practice not a status. — Jeffrey Benjamin

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The shortest answer is doing the thing. — Ernest Hemingway

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One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. — Paulo Coelho

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

› Ptahhotpe

Life Time Work

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. — Colin Powell

Commitment Determination Dreams Work

Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler

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You stand in your own light. — John Heywood

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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. — Henry David Thoreau

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No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

› Epictetus

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