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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• 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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• 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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• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

  George C. Marshall

  Momentum, Elements, Offensive

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

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• Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

  Gustav Meyrink

  Running, Writing, Earth

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• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mean, Warfare, Needs

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• As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

  Joe Slovo

  Country, Levels, Way

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• I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

  Bernard Hinault

  Agriculture, Directors, France

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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 do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.

  Drake

  Hope, Humble, Rapper

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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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• The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Government, Class

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Ice, Design

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• However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

  Janine Turner

  Integrity, Believe, Animal

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

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• Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Powerful, Race, Lasts

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

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• I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

  Gary Larson

  Thinking, Quality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

  Salvatore Ferragamo

  Fashion, Talking, Shoes

  Salvatore Ferragamo, Victoria and Albert Museum (1987). “Salvatore Ferragamo, the art of the shoe, 1927-1960”

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Moving On, Wise, Moving Forward

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Truth, Integrity, People

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

  Nathanael Greene

  Life, Freedom, Rights

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman, Rhode Island Historical Society (2005). “The papers of General Nathanael Greene”

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• Positive people are able to maintain a broader perspective and see the big picture which helps them identify solutions where as negative people maintain a narrower perspective and tend to focus on problems.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Attitude, People, Perspective

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