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Index_card_top “You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous and eternal.”
 
Barry Munro -


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Index_card_top “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. ”
 
Margaret Thatcher (born 1925);
Former Prime Minister Of The Uk
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“You are the generation about to come into control and must prepare for this responsibility. Do not fill up your leisure with meaningless activity or with causes. Have the courage to stand aside and watch for a little while. It is more important to know where we are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.”
 
Mabel Newcomer (1892-1983);
Scholar


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Index_card_top “When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.”
 
Greg Mortenson (born 1957);
Humanitarian, Writer, Mountaineer


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“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ”
 
Diane Ackerman - American Writer


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“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
 
Robert Byrne (born 1928);
American Chess Player


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“I think the purpose of life is to be useful, responsible, honorable, compassionate. It is, above all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”
 
Leo Rosten (1908-1997);
Writer, Teacher


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Index_card_top This Quote Was Our Daily Quote On: 11/18/11
“I am not afraid... I was born to do this.”
 
Joan of Arc (1412-1431);
Heroine Of France
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“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
 
Mary Shelley (1797-1851);
English Novelist


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