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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" -- Frank Scully "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." -- Winston Churchill "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath." -- Jacob Braude "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity." -- Socrates "Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved." -- Michael de Montaigne "When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all." -- Theodore Roosevelt "It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. " -- Henry David Thoreau "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." -- Al Bernstein "The United States is like a giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate." -- Winston Churchill "Let's kick their ass and get the Hell out of here." -- Gen. George Armstrong Custer "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, then imitate the action of the tiger: Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. " -- William Shakespeare King Henry V , Act 3 "If some are still dominated by their former bad habits, and yet can teach by mere words, let them teach…For perhaps, by being put to shame by their own words, they will eventually begin to practice what they teach." -- John of the Ladder, seventh-century ascetic "Neither believe nor reject anything because any other persons ... rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven." -- Thomas Jefferson "For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool." -- Lord Chesterfield "You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others." -- Henry Drummond "If America were tempted to become the dictatress of the world, she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit." -- John Quincy Adams "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." -- Carl Sandburg "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?" -- Henry James "Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." -- Zig Zigler "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime." -- Ernest Hemingway "To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education." -- John Ruskin "Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close." -- John Ruskin "I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." -- James Baldwin "When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." -- Edward Teller "Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living." -- Gen. Omar Bradley "Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything." -- B.C. Forbes "What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate." -- Henry David Thoreau "We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the Earth together as brothers." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Some people think only intellect counts -- knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy." -- Dean Koontz "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." -- Frederick Douglass "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -- Martin Luther King Jr. "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." -- Thomas Jefferson "Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose." -- Dan McKinnon "If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke." -- Brendan Francis "No society of nations, no people within a nation, no family can benefit through mutual aid unless good will exceeds ill will; unless we all see and act as though the other man's welfare determines our own welfare." -- Henry Ford "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison "One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them." -- Denis Watley
Christmas is coming, "He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree." -- Sunshine Magazine "It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!" -- Charles Dickens "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." -- Calvin Coolidge "Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. " -- Mary Ellen Chase "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." -- Cato the Elder "Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault." -- Dr. David M. Burns "My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success." -- Helen Hayes "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." -- Confucius "All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others." -- Michael Carr "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element." -- William Bradford, describing the arrival of the Mayflower to America. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -- Aldous Huxley "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." -- Louisa May Alcott "Becoming a star may not be in your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves." -- Bryan Lindsay "The best things in life aren’t things." -- Art Buchwald "He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly." -- B.C. Forbes "Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment." -- Ralph Marston "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." -- Carl Gustav Jung "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try." -- Beverly Sills "Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich." -- Sir Thomas Browne "And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." -- Grandma Moses "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." -- Voltaire THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." -- Abraham Lincoln "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." -- Sir Winston Churchill "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors." -- Maya Angelou "If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now." Marie Osmond "Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently." -- William A. Ward "When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." -- Barbara J. Winter "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." -- Woodrow Wilson "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." -- Lucille Ball "Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -- Leo Buscaglia "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato "A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away." -- Charles Schwab "Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so." -- Charles de Gaulle "If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference." -- Abraham Lincoln "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." -- Dwight David Eisenhower "The task of leadership, the first task of concerned people, is not to condemn or castigate, or deplore: it is to search out the reason for disillusionment and alienation, the rationale of protest and dissent." -- Robert F. Kennedy "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." -- Albert Einstein "I try to think of all we got accomplished, and not what we didn't get done." -- Joe A. Hinojos "It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen." -- Herodotus "If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less than excellent work." -- Thomas J. Watson "Commit yourself to a dream....Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle - he defeated the fear of trying." -- Robert Schuller "Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it." -- Guy Finley "Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success." -- Diana Rankin "Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." -- Swami Sivanada "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." -- St. Francis de Sales "Difficulties exist to be surmounted." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands, they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future." -- Peter Drucker "Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought - not free thought only for those who agree with us, but freedom for the thought we hate." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court Justice "What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better." -- Wendell Phillips "According to the commonest principles of human action, no man will do as much for you as you will do for yourself." -- Marcus Garvey "Worry not that no one knows of you, seek to be worth knowing." -- Confucius "Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity." -- Thomas J. Watson "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." -- Horace "Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done." -- A.E. Hotchner
"Conquering any difficulty always gives
one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to
one's liberty." -- Henri Frederic Amiel
"You
can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you." -- Eric Hoffer
"Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own
self-fulfilling prophecy." -- Brian Tracy
"One can never consent to creep, when one has an impulse to
soar." -- Helen Keller
"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, 'I
will do better tomorrow.'" -- Brigham Young
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't
give this game of life everything he's got." -- Walter
Cronkite
"I am grateful for all my problems.
After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those
that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties." --
JC Penney
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." --
Elbert Hubbard
"The
first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and
mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."
-- Thomas Edison
"If
you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen,
you don't do it, and it won't happen." -- Joe DiMaggio
"Destiny
is as destiny does. If you believe you have no control, then you
have no control." -- Wess Roberts
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Lou Holtz
"You
find that you have peace of mind, can enjoy yourself, and get more sleep
and rest when you know that it was a 100 percent effort that you gave -
win or lose." -- Gordie Howe
"The real secret of success is
enthusiasm." -- Walter Chrysler
"Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps
when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling
on something sitting down." -- Charles F. Kettering
"A dream doesn't become a reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination,
and hard work." -- Colin Powell
"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." -- Leonardo da
Vinci
"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity,
no matter how impressive their other talents." -- Andrew Carnegie
"Things turn out best for those that make the best of the way things turn out."
-- Art Linkletter
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." --
Roger Babson
"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor." --
Andrew Carnegie
"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital
necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." --
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.
It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who
decided to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next
week. But today; the true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
-- Nolan Bushnell
"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
"You may delay, but time will not." -- Ben Franklin
"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother
just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be
better than yourself." -- William Faulkner
"Revolution is not something fixed in
ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a
perpetual process embedded in the human spirit." -- Abbie Hoffman
"Everybody
has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that
don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you
look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then
you're going to be a success." -- Benjamin Carson
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." --
Thomas Edison
"Be
master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big,
worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the
grain of sand in your shoe." -- Robert Service
"He is able who thinks he is able." -- Buddha
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein
"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow
belongs to the people who prepare for it today." -- Malcolm X
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." --
Sean O'Casey
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless
you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." -- Richard M. Nixon
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others
are stiffened." -- Rev. Billy Graham
"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come
back and settle the account at last." -- Joseph F. Newton
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." --
Henry Ford
"I'm not a fatalist. But even if I were, what could I do
about it?" -- Emo Philips
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the
town gossip." -- Will Rogers
"There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in
blind conservatism." --
Henry George
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I
have one." -- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are
not." -- Andre Gide
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of
enthusiasm." --
Sir Winston Churchill
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely
precious things that cannot be taken from you." -- Oscar Wilde
"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
--
Mahatma Gandhi
"If any man wishes to write in a clear style, let
him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let
him first possess a noble soul." -- Goethe
"The release of atomic
energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the
necessity of solving an existing one." -- Albert Einstein
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and
proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets
busy on the proof." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made.
It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make
them yourself." -- Rita Mae Brown
"One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred
half-finished tasks." -- Bertie Charles Forbes
"He that would make his own liberty secure must
guard even his enemy from oppression." -- Thomas Paine
"In America any boy may become President and I
suppose it's just one of the risks he takes." -- Adlai Stevenson
"Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs
prosper, our friends are true and our
happiness is assured." -- Ambrose Bierce
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a
lack of imagination." -- Oscar Wilde
"There is something uniquely obscene
about competition to promote weapons of mass destruction
for the purposes of improving the stock market position of
a corporation." --
John Kenneth Galbraith
"First, they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you
win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
"You pray in your distress and in
your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in
your
days of abundance."
--
Khalil Gibran
"Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one."
-- Albert
Einstein
"It is easier to suppress the
first desire than to satisfy
all that follow it."
-- Ben Franklin
"He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It
is the means that determines the end." -- Henry Emerson Fosdick
"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and
self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself
stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."
-- William Faulkner
"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors,
and let every new year find you a
better man." -- Ben Franklin
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All
life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they
are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or
torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the
dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall
never be so afraid of a tumble." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Stupidity
has a certain charm -- ignorance does not." -- Frank Zappa
"You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to
make a real difference -- to be of genuine consequence in
the world. We know that there is no satisfaction in merely
going through the motions, even if those motions make us
successful, or even if we have arranged to make those
motions pleasant. We want to know we have made some impact
on the world. In fact, you and I want to contribute to the
quality of life. We want to make the world work." -- Werner Erhard
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from
giving us wordy evidence of the fact."
-- George Eliot
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not;
but remember that what you now have was once among the
things you only hoped for."
-- Epicurus
"What single ability do we all have? The ability to change."
-- Leonard Andrews
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners
usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they
triumphed. They won because they refused to become
discouraged by their defeats."
-- Bertie Charles Forbes
"The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but
in what man is....Nothing should be able to harm a man but
himself....What is outside of him should be a matter of
no importance."
-- Oscar Wilde
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love
has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they
seemed invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS." --
Mahatma Gandhi
"The two words "information" and "communication" are often used
interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving
out; communication is getting through." -- Sydney J. Harris
"The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what
you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things -- but above
all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad -- to be willing
to risk everything to really express it all." -- John Cassavetes
"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do
well matters very much." -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your
soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." -- Napoleon Hill
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral,
begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it
multiplies it... Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not
murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Returning violence for
violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid
of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love can do that". -- Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." --
Thomas Alva Edison
"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he
lives." -- Albert Schweitzer
"Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is
both the marble and the sculptor." -- Alexis Carrel
"No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer,
more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great
liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker
for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery." -- Friedrich
Nietzsche
"Young people have come to look upon war as a
kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage. But it
is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy
and that some of her influences debase and befoul." -- Rebecca Harding Davis
"Obstacles are necessary for success... victory comes only after many
struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your
skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your
confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become
better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away
from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future." -- Og Mandino
"To build a sense of trust takes some risks. You never know whether
the rope will hold unless you take hold of it and swing out over the water!" --
Thomas Kinkade
"Daring ideas are like chess men moved forward. They may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game." -- Goethe
"The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be
developed, if one will only take the pains to train the mind to think. Why do
so many men never amount to anything? Because they don't think." -- Thomas
Edison
"Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them." --
Phantom F. Harlock
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all
of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden
over the horizon, instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our
windows today." -- Dale Carnegie
"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of
the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong." -- Thomas
Carlysle
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
-- Milton Friedman
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant. " -- Robert Louis Stevenson
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." -- Aesop
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people
who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." --
Albert Einstein
"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. Such dangers are without, and
are but petty. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices
the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. What matters it what
threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think only of what threatens our
souls." -- Victor Hugo
"To talk much and arrive nowhere is
the same as climbing a tree to catch a fish. "
-- Ancient Chinese Proverb
"It is in the inherent nature of human beings to yearn for freedom,
equality and dignity. Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never
subdue the basic desire for freedom and dignity." -- H. H. Dalai Lama
"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." -- Abigail
Van Buren
"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy." --
Karl Reiland
"Mankind must put an end to war, or
war will put an end to mankind." -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in
torment if you don't trust enough. " -- Frank Crane, Biblical scholar and
author
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified,
all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward,
go backward. Whatever it takes." -- Jan Ashford
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great
moral crisis maintained their neutrality." -- Dante
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can
go." -- T.S. Eliot
"Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to
others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you... Look at every
path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think is necessary.
Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question ... Does this path have a
heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. " --
Carlos Casteneda
"Any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot
of courage, to move in the opposite direction" -- Albert Einstein
"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is
unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer
to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as
unattainable. " -- Lord Chesterfield, 17th Century English statesman
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what
it takes to sit down and listen. "
-- Winston Churchill
"The taxpayer - that's someone who
works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service
examination." -- Ronald Reagan
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others
as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J. Watson
"Be on fire for something.
Pour yourself out, and you will never lose energy and vitality in so doing. You
only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and
therefore tired doing nothing. You don't have to be tired. Get interested in
something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with
abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody. Do something. Don't sit around
moaning about things. The man who is doing something isn't tired. If you're not
getting into good causes, no wonder your tired. You're disintegrating. You're
deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in
something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have!"
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in
the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity,
but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams
with open eyes to make it possible." - T. E. Lawrence
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity.
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a
snowflake." -- Marie Beyon Ray
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and
endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in
others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden
patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. " -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Let him who would move the world
first move himself. " -- Socrates
"Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will
assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." -- Cecil Beaton
"Why of course the people don't want
war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when
the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England,
nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the
leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple
matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice,
the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the
peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works
the same in any country." -- Hermann Goering
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged
sword. It both emboldens the blood just as it narrows the mind. And when the
drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the
mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the
citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism,
will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know?
For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." -- Julius Caesar
"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same
horizon." - Konrad Adenauer
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a
and the other helps you make a life." Sandra Carey "These days
people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of
the future.-- Vernon Cooper
"Human nature seems to endow people with the ability to size up
everybody but themselves." -- Unknown
"It is only when the people become
ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are
incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment,
and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments
of their own debasement and ruin." --
President James Monroe,
First Inaugural Address, 1817
"The
tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin
it." -- W. M. Lewis
"My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog
thinks I am." -- Jerry Lupien
'We never know the love of our parents for us till we
have become parents.' -- Henry Ward Beecher
'My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the
suit. That should be secondary.' -- Cary Grant
'Make the best use of what is in your power, and take
the rest as it happens.' -- Epictetus
'Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its
power.' -- Shirley MacLaine
'Remember not only to say the right thing in the right
place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the
tempting moment.' -- Benjamin Franklin
'The great man is he who does not lose his child's
heart.' -- Mencius
'The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself.
It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of
others; it is in yourself alone.' -- Orison Swett Marden
'Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do,
but from liking what we have to do.' -- Wilfred Peterson
'You're on the road to success when you realize that
failure is only a detour.' -- William G. Milnes, Jr.
'Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and
rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in
which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to
meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.' --
Annie Besant
'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
'If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a
man.' - Mark Twain
'Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary
is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the
intolerable.' - Kathleen Norris
'People forget how fast you did a job - but they
remember how well you did it.' - Howard Newton
'Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what
is when you get rid of what isn't.' - Buckminster Fuller
'Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some
people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they
expect to have.' - Edward Everett Hale
'When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you
only make matters worse.' - Ward Cleaver
'Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very
silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.' - Henry Van Dyke
'If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,
let it be enthusiasm.' - Bruce Barton
'Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.'
- Victor Borge
'Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their
minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.' - William James
'When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.' -
Henry J. Kaiser
'You cannot make yourself feel something you do not
feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.' - Pearl S.
Buck
'Act like a man of thought. Think like a man of
action.' - Thomas Mann
'Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you
take your eyes off your goal.' - Henry Ford
'The man who is intent on making the most of his
opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.' - B.C. Forbes
'What you are must always displease you, if you would
attain to that which you are not.' - St. Augustine
'There aren't any great men. There are just great
challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to
meet.' - William F. Halsey
'There are many ways of going forward, but only one way
of standing still.' - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
'It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have
tried to succeed. In this life, we get nothing save by effort.' - Theodore
Roosevelt
'You may delay, but time will not.'- Ben Franklin
'The ideal day never comes. Today is ideal for those
who make it so.' - Oratio Dresser
'Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things
it is unattainable. However, those who aim at it and persevere will come much
nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them gve it up as
unattainable.' - Lord Chesterfield
'Circumstances may cause interruptions or delays, but
never lose sight of the goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by
increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience so that you can make
the most of opportunity when it occurs.' - Mario Andretti
'In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes
out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We
should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.' -
Albert Schweitzer
'Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of
wood higher up.' - Brigham Young
'The only place you find success before work is in the
dictionary.' - Vidal Sassoon
'The activist is not the man who says the river is
dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.' - Ross Perot
'Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take
your foot off first.' - Mike Todd
'You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain
things, to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to
reach challenging goals.' - Sir Edmund Hillary
'The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on
the rungs of opportunity.' - Ayn Rand
'Hope...is the companion of power and the mother of
success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.' - Samuel Smiles
'Achievement is not always success, while reputed
failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best
possible under any and all circumstances.' - Orsen Swett Marden
'A good plan today is better than a perfect plan
tomorrow.' - George S. Patton
'Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will
be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the
tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.' - Foster C.
McClellan
'The question is always, what's next? What's possible
today that wasn't possible before?' - Larry Ellison
'Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.' - Albert Einstein
'While one person hesitates because he feels inferior,
the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.' - Henry C. Link
"By the time a man
realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks
he's wrong." -- Charles Wadsworth
"Sherman made the
terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that
the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like
himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could,
out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a
Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely
important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and
catastrophic possibilities of life." -- Tom Wolfe, in The
Bonfire of the Vanities
"Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you
at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the
pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and
pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game
and start all over again." -- Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a
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