"I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before."

-- Nadia Comaneci

#Winning Quotes #Gold Quotes #Done Quotes

“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”
“The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.”
“We know it matters not what we have been but this and always this: what we shall be.”
“It's lap 26 of 58, which unless I'm very much mistaken is half way.”
“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”
“A peaceful mind generates power.”

Source : Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International
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