Quotable Quotes: 2015: New Year, New Beginnings

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“When you’re first thinking through an idea, it’s important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.” – Richard Branson

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” – Steve Jobs

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Henry Stanley Haskins

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napolean Hill

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis of Assisi

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.” – Dr. Seuss

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner

“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.” – Dale Carnegie

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.” – Scott Hamilton

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great”. – Joe Sabah

“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” – James Cook

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Part of the process of beginning anew, or changing directions is to know where you want to go. I know this sounds simplistic and easy, but this is one of the most difficult of choices to make with clarity.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” – Barbara Sher

“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” – John Henry Newman