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A few quotations

I did a talk in Belfast tonight for Sustrans and one lady asked if she could get hold of some of the quotations I use in my presentation. Seeing as she asked so nicely…

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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. – Henry Ford
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Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. – Goethe
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Look, if you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, Would you capture it or just let it slip? – EMINEM
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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot
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There’s only one rule: the guy who trains the hardest wins. – Floyd Landis
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Our greatest battles are with our own mind. – James Frank
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Everything is in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. – Mae West
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Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen
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It is better to live one year as a tiger than one hundred years as a sheep. – Buddhist saying
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The longest journey starts with a single step. – Lao Tze
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Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. – Mark Twain
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I don’t know if I can do this. Then again, I don’t know that I
can’t
do it. – Ffyona Campbell
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If think you can’t, you can’t. If think you can, you can.
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This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. – Fight Club
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We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens
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Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up and refusing to try again does! – Richard Exely
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Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting:
“Holy Cow.. What a ride!”
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To be a champion, fight one more round. – James Corbett
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Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. – John Lennon
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It is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious. – Apsley Cherry Garrard
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That which does not kill us, makes us stronger – slogan for Egyptian Stella beer
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Life is too short for second-class ambitions. – Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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