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THE GUNG-HO ‘CAN-DO’ SPIRIT

  • When one is willing and eager, the gods join in. Aeschylus 
  • Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Nikki Giovanni
  • To be willing is to be able. French Proverb
  • Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. Niccolo Machiavelli   
  • It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. Annie Gotltier
  • Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. Confucius 
  • Either I will find a way or I will make one. Sir P. Sidney 
  • Men do less than they aught unless they do all they can. Thomas Carlyle, Historian 
  • Either you can or you can’t; you’re right. Henry Ford 
  • Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours. Richard Bach (Illusions) 
  • To think of losing is to lose already. Sylvia Townsend Warner 
  • Fear breeds fear. Byron Janis                                                                                               
  • He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. Napoleon Bonaparte               
  • The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard                                                       
  • He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears. Michel de Montaigne             
  • Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. Malay Proverb                                                   
  • Knock the “t” off the “can’t”. George Reeves                                                                       
  • Clear your mind of “can’t.” Samuel Johnson                                                                  
  • Everything is possible for one who believes. Adlin Sinclair            
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  • Failure is impossible. Susan B. Anthony                                                                                
  • Do it big or stay in bed. Larry Kelly 
  • Those who think they can, can. Henry Ford                                                                      
  • He is able who thinks he is able. Buddha                                                                 
  • They are able because they think they are able. Napoleon Bonaparte                            
  • They can do all because they think they can. Virgil                                 
  • You can, if you think you can. Norman Vincent Peale 
  • If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you’re right. Mary K. Ash          
  • Be a ‘can-do’ man and there is nothing you cannot do. Anon                                             
  • Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts. Graffiti                                                               
  • The winning attitude leads to victory, before the battle has begun. Sarosh                    
  • He who has self-confidence will lead the rest. Horace                                                   
  • He who is firm and resolute in will moulds the world to himself. Goethe                         
  • 100% of the shots you don’t take don’t go in. Wayne Gretzky                  
  • There is no such thing as ‘no chance’. Henry Ford                                                          
  • Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte    
  • There is no man living that cannot do better than he thinks he can. Henry Ford              
  • If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. Zig Zigler      
  • If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. Mary Kay Ash       
  • If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt, Author  
  • The real difference between men is (can-do) energy. Thomas Fuller                             
  • When thought is joined to will, we call it ‘power’. Vivekananda                                 
  • When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Joseph Kennedy                                      
  • I’m not a has-been. I’m a will be. Lauren Faca                                                          
  • If you cannot be free, be as free as you can. R.W. Emerson                                      
  • People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln                
  • The heart is its own fate and the mind its own destiny. F.J. Bailey                                  
  • The power of imagination makes us infinite. John Muir, Author                                    
  • ‘I can’t do it’ has never accomplished anything. ‘I will try’ has performed wonders. Anon     
  • Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face. Anon                 
  • You win some, you lose some, but you always try again. Anon                             
  • Fear of success sometimes inhibits us more strongly than fear of failure. Anon          
  • Luck doesn’t just fall into your lap; you have to force it there. Anon                  
  • Small faith will take you to heaven; big faith will bring heaven to you. B.L. Dunham 
  • As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de la Fontaine
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  • To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so. Sir Walter Scott 
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  • If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison
  • Give me a lever long enough and a prop strong enough; I can single-handedly move the world. Archimedes                                                                                                       
  • Problems are the price of progress. Don’t bring me anything but troubles good news weakens me.  Charles Kettering                                                                                      
  • The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius, Philosopher            
  • Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs. Maxwell Maltz     
  • People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale
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  • You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be (only believe it!). Robert Collier                                                                 
  • No matter what level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime (Just believe in yourself). James McCay                                                   
  • The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he until he has tried. Ralph Waldo Emerson                      
  • Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of our venture. William James                                                       
  • The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. Denis Waitley                                                        
  • We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. What do you want most to do? That’s what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. Katherine Mansfield
  • So long as a man imagines that he cannot do a certain thing …so long then, is it impossible for him to do it. Bharuch Spinoza 
  • Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. Robert Schuller, Author
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  • The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb
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  • This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being- we can do it! Eleanor Roosevelt                                                                              
  • If you think you are beaten, you are. /If you think you dare not, you don’t. /If you like to win but you think you can’t, /Its almost certain you won’t. /Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man, /But sooner or later the man who wins, /Is the man who thinks he can! Anon                                                                                                    
  • To be ambitious for wealth, and yet always expecting to be poor; to be always doubting your ability to get what you long for, is like trying to reach east by traveling west. There is no philosophy which will help man to succeed when he is always doubting his ability to do so, and thus attracting failure. No matter how hard you work for success, if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. Charles Baudouin              
  • If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don’t, you have achieved half your failure. David V. A. Ambrose                                                             
  • Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is. L. M. Montgomery                                                                            
  • Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,” probably lost. Martina Navratilova
  • Someone’s always saying, “It’s not whether you win or lose,” but if you feel that way, you’re as good as dead. James Caan

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius                                       

  • There is nothing impossible in the entire world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution. Confucius                                                                                                            
  • We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. C. Malesherbez

                                                                                                                                   

  • We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! George Matthew Adams

                                                                                                       

  • Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities. Orison S. Marden

                                                                                                                               

  • Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. Thomas N. Carruther

  • There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer                                                              
  • The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it. Anon                                                                                           
  • Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture…Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.  Anon                                           
  • If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward, Author
  • What ever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. Brian Tracy
  • Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it. Anon
  • No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. Helen Keller  
  • If you act like there is no possibility of change, you guarantee that there will be no change. Noam Chomsky                                                                                                    
  • It is commonsense to take a method and try it. if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D Roosevelt, Former US President 
  • The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their state of mind. Albert Schweitzer 
  • I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. Henry Thoreau
  • The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time. Magnus Pyke 
  • If you would create something, you must be something. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Author
  • Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising each and every time we fall. Confucius
  • It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up. Vince Lombardi
  • I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Michael Jordan
  • The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible takes a little longer. Fritjof Nansen
  • He, who considers himself free, is free indeed; and he who considers himself bound, remains ever bound. As one thinks, so one becomes. Asthavakra Samhita 1.11 
  • My doctors told me I would never walk. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother. Wilma Rudolph, Sprinter 
  • So high is grandeur to our dust, / So near to god is man, / When duty whispers low ‘Thou must’, / The youth replies ‘I can’. R.W. Emerson 
  • The people pleaded with David not to go out and fight with Goliath saying, “Don’t you see he is too big to hit?” David replied, “No, he is too big to miss”. Anon
  • There is no greater force on earth than our own personal will. So, if you want to do something, anything with all your heart, you will find a way. If you don’t, you will find an excuse. Never give up. Pat Farmer 
  • When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another. Helen Keller 
  • I am the force I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. Elaine Maxwell 
  • Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe

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