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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up read more
Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will
be clean.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will
be clean.
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel
in his heart.
A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel
in his heart.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty
into an interesting opportunity.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty
into an interesting opportunity.
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of read more
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity, and execute
with vigor; to sketch out a map of possibilities; and then to treat them
as probabilities.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.