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If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.


John C. McGinley

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JOHN C. MAXWELL Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't hav...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Without failure there is no achievement.
JOHN C. MAXWELL There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and sel...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
JOHN C. MAXWELL In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
JOHN C. CALHOUN There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth ...
JOHN C. REILLY I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind o...
JOHN C. REILLY I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in choru...
JOHN C. REILLY Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a bea...
JOHN C. MAXWELL I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to w...
JOHN C. REILLY Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If y...
JOHN C. MAXWELL There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That'...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
JOHN C. MAXWELL The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to fa...
JOHN C. MAXWELL I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immen...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That&...
JOHN C. MAXWELL By nature, every individual has the right to govern himself; and governments, whether founded on maj...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others,...
JOHN C. CALHOUN There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is t...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the ...
JOHN C. MATHER The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless o...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
JOHN C. CALHOUN I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-mod...
JOHN C. REILLY A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extens...
JOHN C. CALHOUN To collaborative team members, completing one another is more important than competing with one anot...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah C...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the n...
JOHN C. CALHOUN What is it but a cunningly devised scheme to take from one State and to give to another - to repleni...
JOHN C. CALHOUN