Quotes by Unknown, Source

"Let each day be your masterpiece."

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"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."

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"The road to excellence is always under construction"

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"Nothing in excess."

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"Don't make excuses, make good."

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"Exercise: you don't have time not to."

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"Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy."

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"Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders."

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"Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent."

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"Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else."

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"A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best."

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"Everyone has 20/20 hindsight"

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"Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

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"Experience is largely non-transferable."

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"Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else."

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"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want."

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"Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise"

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"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time."

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"Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience."

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"Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it."

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"The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it."

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"Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it."

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"The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face"

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"There are no traffic jams in the second mile."

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"The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams."

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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"Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today?"

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"I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease."

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"It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before."

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"Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment."

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"The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

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"There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed."

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"Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do."

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"Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory."

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"Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try"

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"Failure is the path of least persistence"

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"From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln."

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"Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down."

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"A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material."

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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

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