Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"There is no going alone on a journey. Whether one explores strange lands or Main Street or one's own backyard, always invisible traveling companions are close by: the giants and pygmies of memory, of belief, pulling you this way and that, not letting you see the world life-size but insisting that you measure it by their own height and weight."

        - Lillian Smith

"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.  Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

        - Foster C. McClellan

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"

        - Elbert Hubbard

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

        - Vincent Van Gogh

"We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though
such a concern should drive us into action and not into a
depression."

        - Karen Horney

"It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency."

        - Simone De Beauvoir

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to
us, we see the past, present, and future."

        - Gail Lumet Buckley

"...the things you refuse to meet today always come back at you
later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision
twice as difficult as it originally was."

        - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It had long since come to my attention that people of
accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. 
They went out and happened to things."

        - Elinor Smith

"It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to
start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. 
Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point
where you can forgive yourself."

        - Patty Duke

"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep
track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend
to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the
painful groping."

        - Eric Hoffer

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."

        - Washington Irving

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and
empty hearts can do that."

        - Norman Vincent Peale

"Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning."

        - Hubert Green

"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by
study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is
gone forever."

        - Samuel Smiles

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of
preparation, hard work, learning from failure."

        - Colin Powell

"It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't."

        - Martin Van Buren

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the
race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have
started."

        - Marcus Garvey

"I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words,
explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only
performance is reality."

        - Harold Geneen

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the
stairs...one step at a time."

        - Joe Girard

"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into
reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things
which we are capable of performing."

        - Samuel Smiles

"One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing
up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of
abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly
become within your own possibility and you thin, 'Well, I'll have
a go, too.'"

        - Margaret Thatcher

"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in
their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold
the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for
others."

        - Orsen Swett Marden

"Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not
education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire."

        - Bobby Unser

"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of
doing the things they do not want to do."

        - Eric Hoffer

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from
life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe
that it is possible."

        - Richard M. DeVos

"If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a
hunger to accomplish your dreams."

        - Les Brown

"It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many
people have tried it before; it's important to realize that
whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it."

        - Wally Amos

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this
forever. Is that good news?"

        - Robert Anthony