“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.” — Isaac Newton
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” — Napoleon Hill
“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.” — Abraham Lincoln
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“Inside every older person is a younger person – wondering what the hell happened.”– Cora Harvey Armstrong (from Lynne Robinson)
“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” — Jean Paul
“No man is ever old enough to know better.” — Holbrook Jackson, “Ladies' Home Journal”, January, 1950
“After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.” — Bette Midler
“ I hear and I forget... I see and I remember... I do and I understand.” -Chinese Proverb
“I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.” — Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001)
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