I to all My New Year Knockout buddies. I found these quotes and thaught I would share.

~You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

-Henry David Thoreau

~Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

-Henry David Thoreau

~Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

-Henry David Thoreau

~The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

~Failures do what is tenson relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

-Dennis Waitley

~I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody else

-Herbert Bayard Swope

~Success does not conist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time

-Josh Billings

~Our Doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt

-William Shakespeare

~The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

-Elbert Hubbard

~Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

-Washington Irving

~Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right

-Henry Ford

~The Journey is the reward

-Chinese proverb

~Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

-Henry Ford

~Don't let what you can not do interfere with what you can do

-John Wooden

~Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

-Alfred A. Montapert

~Courage is fear holding on a minute longer

-General S Patton

~Love never fails; Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; dreams do come true

-Pete Maravichs

~Obstacles don't hae to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up, Figure out how to climb it, go through is, or work around it

-Michael Jordan

Hope there is something in here for everyone to get a little inspiration

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Thanks G-Bean. I'm going to save these.

thanks that was nice to read

Thanks! Always nice to have a reminder that we should never underestimate the power of positive thinking!

WONDERFUL thread.

Thank you for starting it.

My contribution is some art from Van Gogh:

and some other art from Maxfield Parrish:

just a bump up

I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer:

1. "YES!"

2. "Not yet."

3. " I have something better in mind."