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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

William Arthur Ward

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Break Hard Time Man
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
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Day Live
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Expression Feeling Gratitude Present
Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
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Break Reality Trust
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
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Death Effect Fly Human Lose
If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.
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Help Love Yourself
Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
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Failure Inspirational Man Planning Success
Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.
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Answer Blessing Need Person Recognition Responsibility See
Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.
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Problem Reality Recognition Value
Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
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Destruction Wisdom Word
The winner asks, “May I help?” The loser asks, “Do you expect me to do that?”
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Expectation Help Myself Winner
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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Prayer Purpose Success Weakness World
Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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Death Defeat End Failure
For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Feeling Gift Gratitude Health Light Morning Night
Will someone else’s life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?
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Bright Life Yourself
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
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Deep Friendship Respect Truth Voice Word

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