Gagler's Quote of the Day

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"Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory."

        - General George S. Patton

"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat."

        - Hershel Walker

"There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men."

        - Randall Jacobs

"I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things halfheartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect halfhearted results."

        - Michael Jordan

"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible."

        - George H. Lonmer

"How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser."

        - Lou Holtz

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."

        - Lee Iacocca

"Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is an empowerment in itself."

        - Gloria Steinem

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort.   Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end."

        - Claude M. Bristol

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

        - John Quincy Adams

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

        - James Allen

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you."

        - Shakti Gawain

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

        - Vince Lombardi

"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."

        - Dale Carnegie

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em 'Certainly I can!' - and get busy and find out how to do it.

        - Theodore Roosevelt

"There ain't nothin' I can do, or nothin' I can say, that folks don't criticize me. But I'm goin' to do just as I want to anyway."

        - Bessie Smith

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste the adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

        - Anne Bradstreet

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only....Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

        - Coco Chanel

"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood."

        - Josephine Baker

"Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination."

        - Grace Lichtenstein

"So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in and what kind of car we drive...If you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self."

        - Linda Henley

"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work or friendship - two of life's major assets."

        - Eleanor Robson Belmont

"Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on."

        - Iyanla Vanzant

"We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be."

        - Gladys Taber

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

        - Pamela Vaull Starr

"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant labor, always inspired by the ideal."

        - Sarah Bernhardt