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Vince Patton

@vwpatton.bsky.social
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30 yr U.S. Coast Guard veteran. Currently faculty member at Northeast Maritime Institute College of Maritime Science, and President of NMI Foundation.

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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 7h
“It doesn’t matter who you used to be, what matters is who you’ve become.” ~ Robert Tew
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." ~ Charles Kettering
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people." ~ Barbara Walters
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“To accomplish anything extraordinary you must blend desire for the goal with the will to take action to achieve it. This is how you commit to making yourself do what’s right, whether you feel like it or not. The key is self-control.” ~ David Jeremiah
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The plans of the diligent lead to profit as surely as haste leads to poverty." ~ Proverbs 21:5
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” ~ Mark Twain
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.” ~ Ruth E. Renkel
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." ~ Mother Teresa
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Saturday – a day to sleep in, past my normal waking hour. A day to relish, enjoy, and celebrate the goodness that I have been blessed with." ~ Byron Pulsifer
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~ Audrey Hepburn
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there." ~ Lawrence Peter 'Yogi' Berra
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself” ~ Earl Nightingale
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something. Forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ~ Criss Jami
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.” ~ Chad Sugg
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole. ~ Anonymous
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ~ Aristotle
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You reminded me of the days we used to play cowboys and stuff!
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star." ~ W. Clement Stone
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person’s day. It’s all about paying it forward.” ~ Mariska Hargitay
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to say anything or fix anything, but to let us know they're on our side and that they care for us." ~ Brigitte Nicole
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be humble, but not timid. Be proud, but not arrogant." ~ Jim Rohn
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.” ~ John C. Maxwell
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“I will never forget seeing what hate can destroy… I will never forget seeing what love can heal…” ~ Steve Maraboli
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup." ~ Bruce Lee
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"So long as you've got your friends about you and a good, positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks." ~ Gail Porter
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right." ~ Tony Robbins
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it would be easy; they just promised it would be worth it." ~ Harvey Mackay
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Don't ever save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion." ~ Mary Englebreit
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then." ~ From Alice in Wonderland
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." ~ Gloria Steinem
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.” ~ Herbert Bayard Swope
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” ~ Harriet Tubman
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Never be a prisoner of your past; it was just a lesson, not a life sentence." ~ Unknown
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"You cant expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them." ~ Unknown
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you... Let not your hearts be troubled." ~ John 14:27
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"I grew up to look for the good in people. I have never regarded people with suspicion – for such an attitude usually leads to worrying yourself into being a pessimist about everything, people included." ~ Harry S. Truman
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches." ~ Dolly Parton
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory." ~ Anthony Hamilton
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Just think... Is it possible to believe what you don't believe? If you don't believe it, are you believing that you don't believe it? Inquiring minds want to know." ~ Vince Patton
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Although the life of a person is a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow.” ~ Pope Francis
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you water it.” ~ Author Unknown
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality." ~ Jen Sincero
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Vince Patton @vwpatton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." ~ Seneca
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