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The world owes you nothing

  Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein The future will be better tomorrow. - Dan Quayle There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past. - George Carlin If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. - Sir Winston Churchill The future ain't what it used to be. - Yogi Berra We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much, to disdain the future now. - John F. Kennedy Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Charles M. Schulz READ MORE

10 quotes for today - 30 January 2019

John Updike (Photo: The Vineyard Gazette) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Sir Winston Churchill Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn a...

10 quotes for today - 17 January 2019

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. - Norman Vincent Peale Your inner knowing is your only true compass. - Joy Page Everyone who wills, can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. - Mark Twain A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. - Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927 Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before whic...