Maintaining Quotes

• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Softball

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.28, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Remember You

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• Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.

  Nitin Nohria

  Tests, Way, Endure

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• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational Life, Integrity, Evil

  Albert Schweitzer (1932). “Civilization and ethics. 3d. ed”

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• Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

  David Rockefeller

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Innovation, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self realization. Yoga means union - the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day to day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Success, Attitude, Yoga

  "The Energetic Anatomy of a Yogi: Healing the Emotional and Mental Body Through Yoga". Book by Paul G. Balch, Jaylee Balch, p. 23, 2013.

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• Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

  William Empson

  Analysis, Contradiction, Oneself

  William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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• People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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• To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Distance, Contemplating, Oneself

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.37, Tuttle Publishing

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• You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund?

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Rainy Day, Texas

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• In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Integrity, Pregnancy, Two

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2001). “Pregnancy: The Inside Story”, p.8, Karnac Books

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• I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.

  Whitney Houston

  Daughter, Mother, Priorities

  "Whitney Houston and Producer Debra Martin Chase SPARKLE Set Visit Interview". Interview with Heather Warburton, collider.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Song, Heart, Dignity

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• On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

  Thomas Malthus

  Encouragement, Giving, Balance

  Thomas Robert Malthus, Edward Anthony Wrigley, David Souden (1986). “The Works of Thomas Robert Malthus: Principles of political economy. Part 2”

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• Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

  Ivan Illich

  Latin, America, Community

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The church, change, and development”

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• My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.

  Smedley Butler

  Real, War, Home

  Smedley Butler's reply to Gerald MacGuire, after being asked to organize WWI veterans (for military support) in a fascist-coup of FDR, as related by Butler in testimony before Congress, 1934.

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• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Attitude, Yoga, Skills

  B.K.S Iyengar (2000). “Astadala Yogamala Volume-1”, p.76, Allied Publishers

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• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by the limitation of port facilities made it impossible to get sufficient supplies to the armies when they approached the German border.

  George C. Marshall

  Military, Fall, Army

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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• What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

  Marilyn vos Savant

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Essence

  "Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks". Book by Karen Weekes, 2007.

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• I credit chiropractic care for maintaining my health to keep up the pace of my career.

  Jane Russell

  Chiropractic Care, Careers, Pace

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• Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

  Ed Pastor

  Priorities, Pell Grants, Program

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• I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.

  Greg Walden

  Weekend, Oregon, Community

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• Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Thinking

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• I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and a lousy one to make a steady living in, so it's important to have a good family, friends, job and education to fall back on.

  Fred Savage

  Education, Jobs, Fall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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