“It Couldn’t Be Done” Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing and he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that; At least no one has ever done it”; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he’d begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing and he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle it in with a bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start to sing as you tackle the thing That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it. Edgar Guest (1881-1959)”
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“Never ask anyone to do anything for you that you wouldn’t do for him or her if the circumstances were reversed.
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“It isn’t defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.”
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“The oak sleeps in the acorn. The bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality.”
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“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.”
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“When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you’ll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.”
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“It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed in anything.”
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“No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.”
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“ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say "more wisdom.”
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Napoleon Hill
“Opinions” are the cheapest commodities on earth.”
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“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
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“this power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches.”
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“Blessed is the man who has come to know that our muted thoughts are our sweetest thoughts. “Blessed is the man who, from the blackest depths, can see the luminous figure of LOVE, and seeing, sing; and singing, say: "Sweeter far than uttered lays are the thoughts I have of you.”
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“You are more apt to “rust” out your brain from disuse than you are to wear it out from use. You can do it if you believe you can.”
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