Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart."

        - Arnold H. Glasgow

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

        - Mark Twain

        - Charles Dickens

"What does not kill me makes me stronger."

        - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."

        - Tennessee Williams

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

        - General Douglas MacArthur

"Well done is better than well said."

        - Benjamin Franklin

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

        - Winston Churchill

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

        - Thomas Watson

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

        - Dale Carnegie

"Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first."

        - Mike Todd

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not.  Responsibilities need not erase it.   Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."

        - Tom Clancy

"Always retain your values, principles, and beliefs. They will guide your actions with more surety than whim, emotion, or desire."

        - Wess Roberts

"The giants of the race have been men of concentration who have struck sledgehammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose."

        - Orsen Swett Marden

"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."

        - Samuel Johnson

"Never, never, never, never give up."

        - Winston Churchill

"Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration."

        - Thomas Edison

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."

        - Bette Davis

"Destiny, n, a tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure."

        - Ambrose Bierce

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

        - G.K. Chesterton

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

        - Abraham Lincoln

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

        - Elbert Hubbard

"When you're prepared, you're more confident. When you have a strategy, you're more comfortable."

        - Fred Couples

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.  They quit on the one yard line.  They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown."

        - Ross Perot

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.'  Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."

        - Pablo Picasso

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

        - Dorothea Brand

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

        - John D. Rockefeller

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose."

        - Kin Hubbard

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

        - Beverly Sills