Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"Those who must have fully recognized themselves, in a sense that can be recognized by the human mind even though it cannot be clearly defined, have done so in the service of a human purpose larger than themselves."

        - Betty Friedan

"Redefine the word 'fail.' There is no failure in life other than not trying. If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't 'fail.' You've 'tried your best.'"

        - Jane Seymour

'Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.  They're what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm."

        - Cicely Tyson

"To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater; it lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment."

        - Anna Pavlova

"There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive."

        - Robin Quivers

"The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others."

        - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"You have to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything...If you don't know what your position is, if you don't know where you draw the line between right and wrong, you'll never see yourself as you truly are...You'll never feel good about yourself...So that's become my credo. Stand for something. And do you know what? I don't fall for much."

        - Star Jones

"I am learning that if I go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change. I refuse to spend my life regretting the things I failed to do."

        - Liv Ullman

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

        - Marie Curie

"Giving is the highest expression of our power."

        - Vivian Greene

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.   Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences."

        - Susan B. Anthony

"Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities."

        - Ayn Rand

"...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers."

        - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it - how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free."

        - Georgia O'Keefe

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides."

        - Margaret Thatcher

"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."

- Martina Navratilova

"There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style."

        - Pam Tillis

"Be gentle to all and stern with yourself."

        - St. Teresa of Avila

"It's when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds and you think it is too. But you go after it anyway and you get to it. Maybe you don't make a great cross with it to win the game, but you pushed yourself beyond what you thought you could. That's what it will take to win the gold."

        - Mia Hamm

"Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out."

        - Lady Marguerite Blessington

"If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it."

        - Diana Nyad

"The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it; when people are saying it can't be done."

        - Mary Francis Berry

"Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overachiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards."

        - Martha Stewart

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan in which we must fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

        - Stephen A. Brennan

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

        - John Welch

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

        - Josh Billings

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

        - Abraham Lincoln