Winston Churchill

Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.

Topic: Action, Goals
Location: Hawaii, Maui
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. — Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill

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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. — Winston Churchill

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. — Winston Churchill

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You create your own universe as you go along. — Winston Churchill

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If you're going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill

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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. — Winston Churchill

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The loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean. — Mark Twain

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

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Worrying is like paying a debt your don't owe. — Mark Twain

Fear

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. — Thomas Jefferson

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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. — Robert Schuller

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Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books. — Benjamin Disraeli

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I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.

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Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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The future depends on what you do today. — Mohandas Gandhi

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I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent van Gogh

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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them. — Frederick Douglass

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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. — Dr. Wayne Dyer

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Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

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Definiteness of purpose can, and should, so completely occupy the mind that one has no time or space in the mind for thoughts of failure.” — Napoleon Hill

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I run on the road long before I dance under the lights. — Muhammad Ali

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You never fail until you stop trying. — Albert Einstein

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Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

› Helen Keller

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An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

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Action expresses priorities.

› Mohandas Gandhi

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Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

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The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.