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Republished August 28, 2011, originally published as Inspirational Thoughts for Our Work Week, Evans Liberal Politics, November 30, 2009 (too good not to repeat), compilation by Evans Liberal Politics owner Paul Evans:

"The best time to plant a tree was always 20 years ago. The second best time is always today." ~ old Chinese saying

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, It’s a matter of choice; It’s not a thing to be waited for, It’s a thing to be achieved." ~ William Jennings Bryan

"When you know what you want, and you want it badly enough, you’ll find a way to get it." ~ Jim Rohn

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." ~ Albert Einstein

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." ~ James Broughton

"Someone once asked me why do you always insist on taking the hard road? and I replied why do you assume I see two roads?" ~ unknown

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours." ~ Richard Bach

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records." ~ unknown

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." ~ William Feather

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." ~ Charles Schwab

"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." ~ Joshua J. Marine

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen." ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"He is the most unfortunate who’s today is not better than yesterday." ~Muhammed

"Success can never be controlled, but performance always can." ~John F. Murray

"If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win." ~Walter Reuther

"Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn." ~ unknown, may sound a little like Republican propoganda, but there you have it….

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." ~Phyllis Bottome

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." ~ unknown

"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." ~ unknown

"You always pass failure on the way to success." ~Mickey Rooney

"Whenever I hear, ‘It can’t be done,’ I know I’m close to success." ~ Michael Flatley

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value." ~ Jim Rohn

"God gives every bird it’s food, but does not always drop it into the nest." ~ unknown, but I’d read his book!

"Kites rise highest against the wind not with it." ~ Sir Winston Churchill

"To make yourself exceptional is the biggest achievement of your life." ~ unknown

"e;No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have: three meals a day for their bodies, – education and culture for their minds – and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. — And that’s why I am a liberal. ~ Paul Evans

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." — Albert Einstein.

On political activisim: "If you think you’re too small to be effective, you’ve never been in the dark with a mosquito." — source unknown.

Given to us by GreenSooner over at DailyKos: "Policies that were wrong under George W. Bush are no less wrong because Barack Obama is in the White House." – Bob Herbert

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson