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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

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Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Form follows function.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.
The 20th anniversary of my dad David's death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet's birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.
It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.
If youth knew; if age could.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we'd 100% be getting divorced.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.