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[Chris Ryser]

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard, and putting off a hard one makes it impossible.

George H. Lonmer












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[Chris Ryser]

Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson











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[Chris Ryser]

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein







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[Chris Ryser]

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

Geoffrey F. Fisher












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[Chris Ryser]

Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.

Wayne Calloway







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[Chris Ryser]

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce









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[Chris Ryser]

Even rabbits insult an dead lion.

Proverb








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[Chris Ryser]

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

John Lyly









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[Chris Ryser]

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson









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[Chris Ryser]

We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.

R.J. Baughan







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[Chris Ryser]

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Jules Ellinger









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[Chris Ryser]

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman









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[Chris Ryser]

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy






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[Chris Ryser]

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)








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[Chris Ryser]

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon







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[Chris Ryser]

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Michael Korda








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[Chris Ryser]

If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.

Jim Fiebig













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[Chris Ryser]

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.

Proverb















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[Chris Ryser]

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Norman Vincent Peale








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[Chris Ryser]

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Henry Ford









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[Chris Ryser]

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Hubert Humphrey









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[Chris Ryser]

A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Source Unknown









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[Chris Ryser]

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Laurence J. Mcginley







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[Chris Ryser]

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Don Shula









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[Chris Ryser]

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

Lee Iacocca









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