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“Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.”

Hard Hands Individual Attitude Rich Rocks Hard Work Stones Fortune Seeking Dirt Chips Persistent Elusive Gems Mining Rubble Colourful

Author:Chris Murray

“Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.”

Way Long Remember Term Attitude Discipline Commitment Stones Long Term Stepping Stones

Author:Jim Rohn

“The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.”

Opportunity Attitude Blessing Stones Obstacles Block Positive Attitude Barriers Stumbling Stepping Stones Winning Attitude Stumbling Blocks

Author:Cory Booker

“These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.”

Knows Hands Age Form Purpose Black Attitude Middle Stones Greek Melancholy Peculiar Revealing Middle Ages Gothic Calligraphy

Author:Victor Hugo

“A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.”

Inspirational Motivational Attitude Stones Optimism Block Optimistic Optimist Pessimist Stumbling Stepping Stones Stumbling Blocks

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.”

Age Attitude Prove Stones Remains Instinct Finals Smoke Helpless Hollow Scrap Suspended Untruth Finality Trough

Author:Philip Larkin

“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

Source: The Works of Goethe

“The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale the community itself is crippled.”

“Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.”

Problem Choices Common Attitude Circumstances Negative Stones Overcoming Determine Excuse Block Overwhelmed Stumbling Stepping Stones Achiever Stumbling Blocks

Book:Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)

Source: Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)

“The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with a bad attitude. Kindness and sweetness exhilarates your stone. Stolen grass doesn't get you as high. The old hippie ethic really counts”

Attitude Kindness Ethics Stones Grass Classic Sweetness Stolen Hippie Getting High Bad Attitude

Author:Stephen Gaskin

“A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That was his crime; that's why he was crucified - because he was destroying the whole basis of this criminal society; he was destroying the whole foundation rock of this criminal world, the world of wars, and violence, and aggression. He gave a totally new foundation stone.”

World Different War Whole Law Christ Attitude Violence Rocks Crime Needed Stones Bases Foundation Criminals Destroying Aggression Different Attitude Attitude Of Love

Author:Rajneesh