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Quotable quotes for whatever purpose.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
—Mark Twain, author, humorist
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
—Chinese proverb
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.
—Walter Elliott, writer, filmmaker
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person has to make."
—Eric Severeid, journalist, author, newscaster
Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.
—Peter Marshall, author
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
—Sir William Osler, physician, educator, author
If asked when you can deliver something, build in a margin of safety. Name a date. Then deliver it earlier than you promised. The world is divided into two classes of people: the few who make good on their promises, even if they don't promise much and the many who don't. Get in Column A and stay there. You'll be valuable wherever you are.
—Robert Townsend, author, former CEO, Avis Rent A Car System, Inc.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them.
—Lord Chesterfield, author
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
—Winston Churchill, statesman
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? The most creative thing in us to believe a thing in.
—Robert Frost, poet
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
—Albert Einstein, physicist
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
—Jean Cocteau, poet, author, artist
Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system—Steven R. Covey, author
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