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"Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the
revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is
risen," but "I shall rise." ~ Phillips Brooks
"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails." --
German Proverb
"All you have to do is look
straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it --
walk." -- Ayn Rand
"Nonviolence is not a
garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must
be an inseparable part of our being." -- Mohandas K. Gandhi
"It is those who have this imperative demand for
the best in their natures and who will accept nothing short of it, that
hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for
others." -- Orsen Swett Marden
"Kindness is a
language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." --
Mark Twain
"The beginning of love
is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to
fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we
find in them." -- Thomas Merton
"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about
self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
-- Steve Young
"We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and
silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance
and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the
most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness
of being human." -- Pablo Neruda
"You have to "be" before you can "do,"
and do before you can "have." -- Zig Ziglar
"The hood of man is the active exercise of his
soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue... Moreover this
activity must occupy a complete lifetime; for one swallow does not make
spring, nor does one fine day; and similarly one day or a brief period of
happiness does not make a man supremely blessed and happy." --
Aristotle
"Every
worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and
triumph: a beginning, a struggle, and a victory." -- Mahatma
Gandhi
"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred
principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to
prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority
possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate
would be oppression." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Of all the properties which
belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of
character." -- Henry Clay
"Wars generally do not resolve the problems for
which they are fought and therefore...prove ultimately futile." --
Pope John Paul II
"War is a defeat for humanity." -- Pope John Paul II
"Violence and arms
can never resolve the problems of men. " -- Pope John
Paul II
"Life must be lived forward, but can
only be understood backward." -- Soren Kierkegaard
"If only every man would make proper
use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited
ability." -- Marcus T. Cicero
"Life affords no higher pleasure than
that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to
another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified." --
Samuel Johnson
"Happiness is when what you think, what
you say, and what you do are in harmony." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"God gave us the gift of life, it is
up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well." --
Voltaire
"You
can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the
better." -- Jim Rohn
"We should give as we would receive,
cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a
benefit that sticks to the fingers." -- Seneca
"Practice being at home with yourself, as you
step out to be with others." -- Marcia Wieder
"The kind of stupid poverty where kids
are dying for the lack of an immunization that costs 20 cents, or for
lack of food in a world of plenty. Don't we want to be the generation
that says no to that?" -- Bono
"Freedom, by its nature, must be
chosen, and defended by citizens, and sustained by the rule of law and
the protection of minorities. And when the soul of a nation finally
speaks, the institutions that arise may reflect customs and traditions
very different from our own. America will not impose our own style of
government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find
their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way."
-- George W. Bush
"Without self-respect there can be no
genuine success. Success won at the cost of self-respect is not success –
for what shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his
own self-respect." -- B.C. Forbes
"Your living is determined not so much
by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so
much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what
happens." -- John Homer Miller
"Believe,
when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the
world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
-- Helen Keller
"Bad men live that they may eat and
drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." --
Socrates
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action
breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at
home and think about it. Go out and get busy." -- Dale
Carnegie
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only
knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake
somebody." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If you don't stand up for something, you may fall
for anything." -- Les Brown
"What you do not wish others should do
unto you, do not do unto them." -- Confucius
"We must accept finite disappointment,
but we must never lose infinite hope." -- Martin Luther King,
Jr.
"Long
lay the world,
in sin
and error pining,
till He
appeared, and the soul felt its worth.
The
thrill of hope,
the
weary world rejoices,
for
yonder breaks,
a new
and glorious morn." --
Adolphe Charles Adam
"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win
us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the
pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own
fireside and quiet
home!" -- Charles Dickens
"Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us,
or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant
meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith
again." -- Grace Noll Crowell
"Christmas! The very word brings joy to
our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists
for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes
there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth
that enfolds our hearts and our homes. " -- Joan Winmill
Brown
"What is Christmas? It is tenderness
for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a
fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal,
and that every path may lead to peace. " -- Agnes M. Pharo
"Working hard overcomes a whole lot of other
obstacles. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have
connections, and you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in
the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful
people." -- Marsha Evans
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid." -- Soren Kierkegaard
"As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the
best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the
talents we've been given." -- Mary Lou Retton
"What is possible would never have been
achieved if, in this world, people had not repeatedly reached for the
impossible." -- Max Weber
"To be without some of the things you want is an
indispensable part of happiness." -- Bertrand Russell
"The
only way to excellence is to consistently improve yourself every single
day." -- Thomas J. Vilord
"Live
your imagination, not your history." -- Stephen Covey
"If we are to achieve results never before
accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted."
-- Francis Bacon
"How wonderful it would be if we could
help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early
age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A
child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give,
they radiate happiness, they draw people." -- Sir John
Templeton
"Leadership is the capacity and will to rally
men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires
confidence." -- Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they
could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought
that things are so bad that they have to get better." --
Malcolm S. Forbes
"Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while
it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common."
-- Cicero
"Knowing
others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment." -- Lao Tzu
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what
constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -- Helen Keller
"God gives every bird a worm, but he
does not throw it into the nest." -- Swedish Proverb
"Peace
of mind is attained not by ignoring problems, but by solving them."
-- Raymond Hull
"Basically, this is what the focus of
humanity is all about -- bringing a smile to everybody's face. There's so
many ways to express our spirituality in a positive way." -- Chaim Cunin
"Our business in life is not to get
ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own
records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." -- Stewart
B. Johnson
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds
the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."
-- Christopher Reeve
"Courage is doing what you are afraid
to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." --
Eddie Rickenbacker
"If you are neutral
in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If
an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are
neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." --
Bishop Desmond Tutu
"Tis better to have loved and lost,
than never to have loved at all." -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
"You are not here merely to make a
living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater
vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to
enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"You
never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. -- Buckminster Fuller"
"No
one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of
him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the
required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction." --
Charles Kendall Adams
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in
your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own
powers you cannot be successful or happy." -- Norman Vincent
Peale
"One can go to war
alone, but you can't build peace alone." -- Jacques Chirac
"Those who seek to bestow legitimacy must themselves
embody it, and those who invoke international law must themselves submit
to it." -- Kofi Annan
"There
are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than
the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction." -- John F.
Kennedy
"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the
regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - "If I had my life to
live over, I'd do it all the same." -- Joan McIntosh
"To live each day as though one's last, never
flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing, is perfection of
character." -- Marcus Aurelius
"In every community there is work to be done. In
every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power
to do it." -- Marianne Williamson
"I dream, therefore I become." -- Cheryl
Grossman
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to
overlook." -- William James
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe
in the heroic makes heroes. " -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Be
true to your work, your word, and your friend." -- Henry
David Thoreau
"Hate no one, hate their vices, not themselves." -- J.G.C.
Brainard
"To
use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram
ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the
fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can
do our best and learn the most in the new situation. " --
Peter McWilliams
"It is very strange that the years
teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity
for waiting." -- Elizabeth Taylor
"A great marriage is not when the
'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to
enjoy their differences." -- Dave Meurer
"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,
but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
-- Helen Keller
"The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the
other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is
greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with
you and tend the grass wherever you may be." -- Robert Fulgum
"Words may show a
man's wit, but actions, his meaning." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Life is a moderately good play with
a badly written third act." -- Truman Capote
"When you have a number of disagreeable duties to
perform, always do the most disagreeable first." -- Josiah Quincy
"Purchase not friends by gifts; when
thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love."
-- Thomas Fuller
"Patience,
persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."
-- Napoleon Hill
"The man who says he is
willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance."
-- Laurence J. Peter
"Never regret. If it's good,
it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." --
Victoria Holt
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that
are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." --
Benjamin Franklin
"Adversity
reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." -- Horace
"When we are motivated by goals that
have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that
needs expressing, then we truly live life." -- Greg Anderson
"In matters of
principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the
current." -- Thomas Jefferson
"In theory, theory and practice are the
same. In practice, they're not." -- Yogi Berra
"Wit makes its own
welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force
of character, can make any stand against good wit." -- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"We can let circumstances rule us, or
we can take charge and rule our lives from within." -- Earl
Nightingale
"You must learn to
face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that
everything you do affects not only you but others." -- Holly
Lisle
"The wisest men follow their own
direction."
-- Euripedes
"To be without some of the things
you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Take rest; a field that has rested
gives a bountiful crop."
-- Ovid
"Did
you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the
blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they
are not trying to impress other birds and horses." -- Dale
Carnegie
"Fear does not have
any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it." --
Les Brown
"Determine never to
be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Make up your mind to act decidedly and
take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."
-- Thomas H. Huxley
"You can make more friends in two
months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years
by trying to get other people interested in you."
-- Dale Carnegie
"If
you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always
yours. And if they don't, they never were." -- Kahlil Gibran
"Without involvement, there is no
commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No
involvement, no commitment." -- Stephen Covey
"Happy
people see shades of grey, they prioritize problems and turn them into
possibilities. They don't lose sight of the big picture." --
Dan Baker
"No matter how big and tough a
problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step toward
solution. Do something." -- George Nordenholt
"Remember there's no such thing as a
small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
-- Scott Adams
"Sometimes I think
we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is
staggering." -- Buckminster Fuller
"Do not be too
moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be
not simply good; be good for something. "
-- Henry David Thoreau
"An
act that positively influences the life of both the giver and the
receiver is a kindness. It doesn't have to cost money or be difficult to
perform. It can be spontaneous or premeditated. It can be as simple as a
smile or a thank you, or as complicated as starting a non-profit
organization to benefit those in need. Actively seeking out opportunities
to assist others will naturally bring a certain amount of warmth and
feeling of self-worth to each of us. It feels good to help others and
others feel good knowing someone wants to help them." -- Chuck Wall
"When the trees sing, It doesn't
really matter If you know the song, Or if you know the words, Or even if
you know the tune. What really matters is knowing That the trees
are singing at all." -- Mattie Stepanek
"The Chinese use two
brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for
danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger -
but recognize the opportunity." -- Richard M. Nixon
"If you have made
mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What
we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down." --
Mary Pickford
"I know of no more encouraging fact
than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious
endeavor." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Know how to listen, and you will
profit even from those who talk badly." -- Plutarch
"It is necessary to try to surpass
oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." --
Queen Christina of Sweden
"If you're remarkable, it's likely that
some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable.
Nobody gets unanimous praise -- ever. The best the timid can hope for is
to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out." --
Seth Godin
"Depend
not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of
self-reliance." -- The laws of Manu
"Life is a great big
canvas; throw all the paint on it you can." -- Danny Kaye
"Let us so live that
when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." --
Mark Twain
"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to
others." -- Thomas a Kempis
"Be careful with the present you are
creating -- it should look like the future you dream of. -- Mujeres
Creando
"Be civil to all;
sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"I have never met a man so ignorant
that I couldn't learn something from him." -- Galileo Galilei
"The right to be
heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
"Nothing contributes
so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which
the soul may fix its intellectual eye." -- Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley
"A tactical retreat is not a bad
response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you
choose your own ground. Then you counterattack." -- Lois
McMaster Bujold
"If we want a love message to be
heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep
putting oil in it." -- Mother Teresa
"The important thing
is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we
could become." -- Charles Du Bos
"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack
of an idea is an obstacle."
-- Ken Hakuta
"Have patience with all things, but
chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering
you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day
begin the task anew." -- St. Francis de Sales
"Youth cannot know how age thinks
and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be
young." -- J.K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Order of the
Phoenix
"If you aren't fired
with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." -- Vince
Lombardi
"It is not always the
same thing to be a good man and a good citizen." -- Aristotle
"Success is not the result of spontaneous
combustion. You must set yourself on fire." -- Reggie Leach
"There are high spots in all of our lives
and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.
I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be,
each hungers for applause." -- George M. Adams
"A hundred times every day I remind
myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labor of others,
living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the
same measure as I have received and am receiving." -- Albert Einstein
"I value the friend who for me finds
time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not
consult his calendar." -- Robert Brault
"Man is only truly great
when he acts from his passions." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Now and then it's good to pause in
our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." -- Guillaume
Apollinaire
"In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the
optimist has a better time on the trip." -- Daniel L. Reardon
In the
1800s, Paganini was an emerging violinist and composer. And his dream was
to play to a packed opera house in which the audience to would jump to its
feet with an ovation. And then that evening came. It was time for his
solo. But as the musician began to draw his bow, he felt this terror and
sickness in his stomach because he realized that he had grabbed the wrong
violin, a far inferior one. And then deep inside himself he heard, "Play
with what you've got." And so he drew back his bow and he began to play.
And he asked that even in this instrument, something might happen that
would make a difference for the gift of music. As Paganini
maximized what he had, the audience rose to ovation after ovation after
ovation. He said: "Before tonight, I always thought the music came from my
violin. Tonight I realized the music comes from me." Often we have thought
our miracle comes from the world, when the truth is, the only miracle
that's real must come through us, from that place in us where the spirit
of God truly resides. The music is within you.
--
Mary Manin Morrissey
"Every man is guilty of all the good he
didn't do."
-- Voltaire
"A person who trusts no
one can't be trusted." -- Jerome Blattner
"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your
strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties
but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your
possibilities." -- William Arthur Ward
"Some people think it's
holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes, it's letting go!" --
Sylvia Robinson
"It is better to
sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward."
-- Baltasar Gracian
"What we hope ever to
do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence." --
Samuel Johnson
"You have to recognize when the
right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that
opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit
back and wait." -- Ellen Metcalf
"There is no remedy for love but to
love more." -- Henry David Thoreau
"The greatest use of life is to spend
it for something that will outlast it." -- William James
"Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, In the land
that I heard of once in a lullaby; Somewhere over the rainbow skies are
blue, And the dreams that you dare to dream, Really do come true."
-- Eva Cassidy
"Making the decision to have
a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go
walking around outside your body." -- Elizabeth Stone
"One of the greatest
victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."
-- Josh Billings
"Use, do not abuse;
neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy." --
Voltaire
"It's choice - not chance - that
determines your destiny."
-- Jean Nidetch
"It is a great blessing to meet
struggle and opposition with whatever fire there is in us that is kindled
by these. Life does not mean merely following the softest road, the path
of least resistance; it is doing something vital. Hardships and
difficulties bring out the best in us and make us strong." --
Swami Paramananda
"If you cannot lift the load off
another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it." --
Frank Tyger
"Many hands and hearts
and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements."
--- Walt Disney
"Life is like an onion;
you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." --
Carl Sandburg
"It is far more
impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
-- Judith Martin
"Whatever you are by
nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for and you will succeed." -- Sydney Smith
"Peace is not a passive
but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. It is a
gesture as strong as war." -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
"Help others get
ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders."
-- Bob Moawad
"Attempt easy tasks
as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one
case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be
dismayed." -- Baltasar Gracian
"Do not anticipate
trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The secret of joy in
work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something
well is to enjoy it." -- Pearl S. Buck
"Work keeps us from three great evils --
boredom, vice and need." -- Voltaire
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher
explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher
inspires." -- William Arthur Ward
"How can you come to know yourself?
Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know
right away what you amount to."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Keep your fears to yourself, but
share your courage with others." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Facing it, always facing it,
that's the way to get through. Face it."
-- Joseph Conrad
"I was brought up to believe that
how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me." --
Anwar Sadat
"A good name, like
good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." -- Lord
Jeffery
"He is not here: for he is risen, as he
said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell
his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth
before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. And
they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did
run to bring his disciples word. And as they went to tell his disciples,
behold, Jesus met them, saying, All hail. And they came and held him by
the feet, and worshipped him. Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid:
go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see
me. " -- Matthew 28: 6-10 KJV
"I have witnessed the
softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile." --
Goldie Hawn
"Death
is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
-- A. Sachs
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important
than any one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The
man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30
years of his life." -- Muhammad Ali
"As
long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big." --
Donald Trump
"Only
he who attempts the ridiculous can achieve the impossible." --
Will Henry
"Let
no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier." --
Mother Teresa
"Anything that is of
value in life only multiplies when it is given."
-- Deepak Chopra
"To follow, without
halt, one aim: There's the secret of success." -- Anna Pavlova
"Never let the future
disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of
reason which today arm you against the present."
-- Marcus Arelius Antoninus
"A mind, like a home,
is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame
none but himself." -- Louis L'Amour
"Search others for
their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"The inner fire is the most
important thing mankind possesses"
-- Edith Sonergran
"You have to allow a certain amount
of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to
you, to let your mind think." -- Mortimer Adler
"Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers
"There are no secrets
to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from
failure." -- Colin Powell
"Success isn't permanent, and
failure isn't fatal."
-- Mike Ditka
"Never confuse
motion with action." -- Benjamin Franklin
"Well
done is better than well said." -- Benjamin Franklin
"It is common sense to take a method
and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all,
try something." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"There are two ways of spreading
light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." --
Edith Wharton
"Enjoy present pleasures in such a
way as not to injure future ones." -- Seneca
"He who every morning
plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a
thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But
where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to
the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign." -- Victor
Hugo
"I'll stop the world
and melt with you, You've seen the difference and it's getting better all
the time. There's nothing you and I won't do. I'll stop the
world and melt with you....The future's open wide."
-- Modern English
"I
need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the
warrant and the sanction." -- Ayn Rand
"Life
is full of obstacle illusions." -- Grant Frazier
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is
an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become
dirty." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"Do not spoil what you
have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have
was once among the things only hoped for." -- Epicurus
"Where there is love
there is life." -- Mohandas Gandhi
"One person with a
belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests." --
John Stuart Mill
"The probability that
we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a
cause we believe to be just." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The truth is that
there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real
nobility is in being superior to your former self. " --
Whitney Young
"Never feel self-pity,
the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the
terrible squirrel cage of self." -- Millicent Fenwick
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of
their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." --
William James
"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow
my own feelings." -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of
their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
-- William James
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say,
and what you do are in harmony." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"The best thing to give to your enemy is
forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your
child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct
that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men,
charity." -- Francis Maitland Balfour
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the
universe will be simpler." --
Henry David Thoreau
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There
can be no courage unless you're scared." -- Eddie Rickenbacker
"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no
one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a
knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." --
Johann Georg von Zimmerman
"Let freedom ring
from every hill and mole hill of Mississippi. From every mountainside,
let freedom ring, and when this happens...when we allow freedom to ring,
when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state
and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's
children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old
Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are
free at last!" -- Martin
Luther King, Jr. -- For the complete text of this
speech, click here
"Throughout history, it
has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of
those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice
when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
-- Haile Selassie
"If a man has any
greatness in him, it comes to light – not in one flamboyant hour, but in
the ledger of his daily work." -- Beryl Markham
"When we can begin to
take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of
them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. '
-- Katherine Mansfield
"The true worth of a man
is to be measured by the objects he pursues." -- Marcus
Aureleus
"Great and good are
seldom the same man." -- Winston Churchill
"I never wanted to be
famous. I only wanted to be great." -- Ray Charles
"There is a great man who
makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes
every man feel great." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A New Year's Toast: "May you never lie, cheat, or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms. If you must cheat,
cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with all of us because
we love you."
"A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and
out the other." -- Author Unknown
"No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It
is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It
is the nativity of our common Adam." -- Charles Lamb
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A
pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." -- Bill
Vaughan
"Now it came to pass in those days that a decree went forth from
Caesar Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken.
This first census took place while Cyrinus was governor of Syria.
And all were going, each to h is own town to register. And Joseph
also went from Galilee out of the town of Nazareth in to Judea to the
town of David, which is called Bethlehem - because he was of the house
and family of David - to register, together with Mary, his espoused
wife, who was with child." -- Luke, 2:1 - 5
"And it came to pass while they were there, that the days for her
to be delivered were fulfilled. And she brought forth her firstborn
son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger,
because there was no room for them in the inn." -- Luke -
2:6, 7
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