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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Ferdinand Foch

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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

Ferdinand Foch

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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu

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If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head almost nothing.
Marc Chagall

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Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. John Wooden

Thought for the Day

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
R. Lee Ermey

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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.R. Lee Ermey

Human faults are like garden weeds.

Human faults are like garden weeds. They grow without cultivation and soon take over the place if they aren’t thinned out. Habits are formed so slowly that most of us don’t realize what is happening until the habits are too strongly entrenched to be broken. Seldom can one pattern of behavior be eliminated without replacing it with another. It has been said that nature abhors a vacuum and will always find something to fill a void. The best way to thin out the “weeds,” or faults in your character, is to identify those traits with which you are dissatisfied and replace them with their positive counterparts. If you have a tendency to lose your temper, for example, find a replacement for your anger. Neutralize it with a positive expression or affirmation, such as, “No one can make me angry unless I let them. I will not let anyone else control my emotions.” Napoleon Hill Foundation

EACH FAILURE IS A STEP CLOSER TO SUCCESS

People who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Experiencing failure is inevitable on your journey to be successful.  Each defeat is merely an installment to victory.

You'll find that the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you fail and keep trying.

You won't be judged by the number of times you fail, but by the number of times you succeed.

Failure is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose.

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I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.
Ernest Borgnine

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Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher

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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake

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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Purity Ring

First day of high school, Right after homeroom

Shutting my locker and who did I see

Looked like he grew up over the summer

All of a sudden I felt weak in my knees

Flipping my hair up slinging my backpack

Hoping for sure that he would see me

I made a promise to me and my mom

And on my finger is a story to some

Growing up it was just her and me

She cried the day I wore my ring of purity

Flashing a smile he was looking at me

He was my partner during biology

Laughing and grinning cutting a frog up

Going to prom night working a sweat up

We had a great time didn’t even need wine

It was the first time No curfew for me

But I’d made a promise to me and my mom

And on my finger is a story to some

Growing up it was just her and me

She cried the day I wore my ring of purity

He took me for a long walk we snuggled in his pickup

A perfect kiss like I knew it would be

My skin began to tingle my heart flew like an eagle

We were covered by the moonlight

and then I saw the real light

I told him what the ring meant

He said it really made sense

Then we watched the sun rise,

and ate my mom’s pancakes

I made a promise to me and my mom

And on my finger is a story to some

Growing up it was just her and me

She cried the day I wore my ring of purity

Paul Mize © 2011 

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy,hope. Winston Churchill

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There are no easy roads to success

Whatever you want in life, you must give up something to get it. The greater the value, the greater the sacrifice required of you.

Everything has a price. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, and a price to pay for just leaving things as they are.

Nothing worthwhile ever comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Use your imagination more than your memory to achieve success.

The highway to success is a toll road. There is no success at bargain basement prices.

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Without criticism, art would lose it's strongest supporter.
Michelangelo Antonioni

Thought for the Day

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. 

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
Gen. Creighton Abrams

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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley