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As a retired high school coach and teacher, I put a positive quote at the end of each practice schedule or on the chalkboard of the classroom each week. I would like to think many of my 15,000 plus students remember some of those.
I will start with a couple from Coach Sweeney - Head football coach - Clemson .

"Be sure the light that shines from you is brighter than the light that shines on you."

"The only handicap anyone has is a bad attitude."
 

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"Luck is the residue of hard work" - Branch Rickey

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There's a sucker born every minute. P.T Barnum

Ask not what your country can do for you, but you can do for your country. JFK
 

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"Artists paint their pictures on canvas; musicians paint theirs on silence." Leopold Stokowski

"The secret to life is honesty and fair dealing - if you can fake that, you've got it made." Groucho Marx
 

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Artistic perspective :
There are 7000 0000 000 people on this planet.
About 99,999% of them could not care less about your art . . .
 

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Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
 

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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

If you have already abandoned all hope, please disregard this notice.
 

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Eighty percent of life is just showing up. -- Woody Allen.

To be is to do. -- Socrates
To do is to be -- Descartes
Do be do be do. -- Sinatra

There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. -- Father Strickland, Jesuit priest.

Profanity is the result of a feeble mind trying to forcefully express itself. -- Spencer Kimball
 
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Youth Is Wasted On The Young / Medication Is Wasted On The Old - unknown
 

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Killing Yourself To Live - Ozzy and the boys.
 

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Don't knock masturbation its sex with someone I love - another Woody Allen quote
 

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"I used to admire Woody Allen until he married his own daughter." Dreadnut
 
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