Quotes from Kira's Desk...to Yours

At the age of six, I wanted to be a cook. At seven, I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
  » Salvador Dali

One of the tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
  » Dale Carnegie

We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.
  » Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
  » Theodore Roosevelt

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you want to lose a game, you have to learn.
  » Tom Landry

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.
  » Bo Jackson

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
  » Lee Iacocca

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
  » Norman Vincent Peale

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
  » Elbert Hubbard

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.
  » Isiah Thomas

For they conquer who believe they can.
  » John Dryden

All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone.
  » Greg Arnold

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
  » J.C. Penney

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
  » Joe DiMaggio

Try to name a true success story that involves someone giving up before the job was done.
  » Wess Roberts

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
  » Hugh Downs

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
  » Zig Ziglar

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary."
  » Anthony Robbins

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do!
  » Henry Ford

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
  » Malcolm Forbes

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end.
  » Abraham Lincoln

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is an honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
  » Orson Swett Marden

To strive with difficulites and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
  » Samuel Johnson

Ideas are, in truth, force.
  » Henry James

Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
  » M. Scott Peck

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not the day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
  » Margaret Thatcher

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