Find Your Daily Dose of Inspiration: Quotes to Lift Your Spirit - page 11
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.
Lynn Sherr
The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.
Sugata Mitra
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
Katharine Whitehorn
The path to truly new, never-been-done-before things always has failure along the way.
Regina E. Dugan
How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.
I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
I'm devastated with the injury but I've proved my heart and skill to everyone by fighting one handed for eight rounds.
Joe Calzaghe
Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes.
Helen Fielding
Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!
Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
Cathy Guisewite
I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me or fall apart around me and at least I wake up with my kids and I'm happy.
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I've been boxing for 25 years and I need exciting fights.
Joe Calzaghe