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““But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end””
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.”
William James
“Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters.”
Dave Matthews Band
“Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.”
William Shakespeare
“It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.”
Brian Tracy
“no matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part”
Tiger Woods
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A man that don't love a horse, there is something the matter with him.”
Will Rogers
“It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.”
Jim Rohn
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