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The manner of winning is a matter of honour.","Denis Thatcher", "", ""), new Array ("Politics is showbusiness for ugly people.","Jay Leno", "", ""), new Array ("Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("Optimism is the nourishment that fertilizes idea seedlings, allowing you the right attitude and mindset to cultivate them and the personal motivation to see them through to fruition.","Charles Garcia", "", ""), new Array ("The one thing that remains constant is change.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.","John Adams", "", ""), new Array ("the 'haves' and the 'have nots' can be traced back to the 'dids' and 'did nots' ","Anthony Klco", "", ""), new Array ("It takes more to plow a field than merely turning it over in your mind.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.","Joseph Campbell", "", ""), new Array ("Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her. 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There's no greater investment.","Stephen Covey", "", ""), new Array ("Courage is grace under pressure.","Ernest Hemmingway", "", ""), new Array ("The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.","Ralph Waldo Emerson", "", ""), new Array ("Pain is temporary, pride is forever.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.","Pablo Picasso", "", ""), new Array ("Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now.","Henry Marsh", "", ""), new Array ("The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.","George Bernard Shaw", "", ""), new Array ("To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.","Oscar Wilde", "", ""), new Array ("Most people see what is, and never see what it can be.","Albert Einstein", "", ""), new Array ("Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.","Scott Reed", "", ""), new Array ("I hated every minute of the training, but I said, \"Don't quit, Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion\".","Mohammed Ali", "", ""), new Array ("Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start seeing yourself as a success.","Dr Joyce Brothers", "", ""), new Array ("Those that succeed push just a little harder each day and those that don\'t wished they had years later.","Al Oerter", "", ""), new Array ("The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.","Chinese Proverb", "", ""), new Array ("Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.","Samuel Johnson", "", ""), new Array ("If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.","Charlotte Bronte", "", ""), new Array ("Act as if you are already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.","Dale Carnegie", "", ""), new Array ("The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can change his life by changing his attitude of mind.","William James", "", ""), new Array ("Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.","B.C. Forbes", "", ""), new Array ("What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.","Oliver Wendell Holmes", "", ""), new Array ("Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("Be brave enough to accept the help of others.","Anonymous", "", ""), new Array ("The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.","Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf", "", ""), new Array ("Down deep in every soul is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring... If you are willing, great things are possible to you. ","Glenville Kleiser", "", ""), new Array ("Quote me as saying I was misquoted.","Groucho Marx", "", ""), new Array ("Computers are useless. They can only give you answers/","Pablo Picasso", "", ""), new Array ("Who are you going to believe? Me? 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That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.","Linus Torvalds", "", ""), new Array ("Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.","Robert Louis Stevenson ", "", ""), new Array ("One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind","Neil Armstrong", "", ""), new Array ("Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.","John F. Kennedy", "", ""), new Array ("Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.","Matthew 7:7", "", ""), new Array ("Many strokes, though with a little ax, hew down and fell the hardest tree.","William Shakespeare", "", ""), new Array ("A man can be judged by his style of dress. A gentleman by his address.","Dr Samuel Johnson", "", ""), new Array ("I have spent most of my life worrying about things that never happened.","Mark Twain", "", ""), new Array ("Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.","Colin L. Powell", "", ""), new Array ("When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.","Lucius Annaeus Seneca ", "", ""), new Array ("Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.","St. Francis de Sales", "", ""), new Array ("In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value.","Lou Gerstner", "", ""), new Array ("Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.","Vincent van Gogh", "", ""), new Array ("Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.","Abraham Lincoln", "", ""), new Array ("The price of greatness is responsibility.","Winston Churchill", "", ""), new Array ("Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.","Johann Goethe", "", ""), new Array ("Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.","Thomas Edison", "", ""), new Array ("People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.","Samuel Johnson", "", ""), new Array ("Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently.","Henry Ford", "", ""), new Array ("It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages","Henry Ford", "", ""), new Array ("It is amazing what you accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.","Harry S. Truman", "", ""), new Array ("Imagination is more important than knowledge.","Albert Einstein", "", ""), new Array ("The secret of success is to know something nobody else does.","Aristotle Onassis", "", ""), new Array ("If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.","Chinese Proverb", "", ""), new Array ("Never Give In. Never. Never. Never.","Winston Churchill", "", ""), new Array ("Errors and mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten.","Vince Lombardi", "", ""), new Array ("Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.","T.S. Eliot", "", ""), new Array ("The nature of people is always the same. It is their habits that separate them.","Confucius", "", ""), new Array ("To double your success rate, double your failure rate.","Tom Watson", "", ""), new Array ("It usually takes me about three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.","Mark Twain", "", ""), new Array ("Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then to help orchestrate the energy of those around you.","Peter Drucker", "", ""), new Array ("I practiced hard enough that the games were often easier.","Michael Jordan", "", ""), new Array ("If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.","Lee Iacocca", "", ""), new Array ("Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.","Vincent van Gogh", "", ""), new Array ("Three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.","Thomas Edison", "", ""), new Array ("Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.","Coco Chanel", "", ""), new Array ("What we think, we become.","Bhudda", "", ""), new Array ("Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know you trust him.","Booker T. Washington", "", ""), new Array ("There are no office hours for leaders.","Cardinal Gibbons", "", ""), new Array ("The price of greatness is responsibility.","Winston Churchill", "", ""), new Array ("Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.","Henry Ford", "", ""), new Array ("There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.","John F. Kennedy", "", ""), new Array ("To have more than you've got, become more than you are.","Jim Rohn", "", ""), new Array ("Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.","William Shakespeare", "", ""), new Array ("If you want a friend, get a dog. If you want a customer solve their problems.","Jeffrey Mayer", "", ""), new Array ("There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something.","Thomas Edison", "", ""), new Array ("In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock","Thomas Jefferson", "", "") ); var n = Math.round(Math.random() * (quotesArray.length - 1)); return ("\"" + quotesArray[n][0] + "\" - " + quotesArray[n][1] + ""); }