Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic
in it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends
Jawaharlal Nehru
Failures are divided into two classes—those who thought and never did, and those who did
and never thought.
John Charles Salak
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Robert H. Schuller
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is going to be hard, this I know, but why get to the end of it and look back and
realize that I hadn’t reached for a single thing. I don’t want regrets when it’s too late to
do anything about it.
Deanna Bennett
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of
life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
Give us a clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for—because
unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.
Peter Marshall
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes real happiness. It is not obtained
through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills. All
I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
Mohandas K. Ghandi
What you do every day should contribute to giving your life meaning. If it doesn’t, why
are you doing it?
Don Hutcheson
At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of
his existence.
Viktor E. Frankel
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Samuel Johnson
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that
way with all his strength.
Hasidic Saying
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
Miguel de Cervantes
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
William James
There is more to life than increasing it’s speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what
you are doing, you will be successful.
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Prize Winner
To acquire knowledge, one must study; But to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of
life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact.
William James
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we
are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself
from the others because is it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
--M. H. McKee
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler
You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacles. William Hurst.
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
- Harry Firestone
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt,
as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear;
as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber.
So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage,
so long are you young.
- Douglas MacArthur
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Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Ghandi.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he
is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help
others.
Elbert Hubbard
The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful.
Parke Godwin
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Kenny Rogers
Win-win sees life as a cooperative, not a competitive arena.
Stephen R. Covey
The more we do, the more we can do.
William Hazlitt
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Erich Fromm
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost.
Old Epitaph
One day there will be no borders, No boundaries, no flags and no countries, And the only
passport will be the heart.
Tamara Robinson
He makes things easier for himself who makes thing easier for others.
Asian Idiom
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over
the good fortune of others.
Archibald Rutledge
To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
St. Augustine
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliott
Knowing others is wisdom: Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires
force: Mastering the self needs strength.
Tao te Ching
You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out
of your life.
James G. Bilkey
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
We come to feel as we behave.
Paul Pearsall
Man’s natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them apart.
Confucius
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble
tasks as though they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief
Thomas Fuller
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Miguel de Unamuno
You can do what you have to do, and sometime you can do it even better than you think
you can.
Jimmy Carter
Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
No gain is so certain as that which proceeds from the economical use of what you already
have.
Latin Proverb
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck
James Garfield
Prove to yourself that you can do it. Prove that you were always who you thought you
were, not who they said you had to be.
Rachel Snyder
You can tell more about a person by what they say about others than you can by what
others say about them.
- Leo Aikman
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
I shall tell you a secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place
every day.
- Albert Camus
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by
the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
--Mark Twain
The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King Jr.
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. He who looks outside
dreams. He who looks inside awakens." Carl Jung
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to
magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent
before the change.
- Earl Nightingale
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
- John Wooden
One ship sails east, another west,
By the self same winds that blow.
It isn't the gales, it's the set of the sails,
That determines the way we go.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with
a certain set of attitudes.
--Scottish Proverb
Four things come not back: The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and neglected
opportunity.
- Arabian Proverb
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
--Gail Sheehy
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an
opportunity, not a threat.
--Prince Phillip of England
Change is the only evidence of life.
--Evelyn Waugh
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator.
--Robert F Kennedy
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never
losing your enthusiasm.
- Aldous Huxley
The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has
lost his enthusiasm.
- H. W. Arnold
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
- Sir Edward Appleton
Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
- Steve Droke
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the
circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
- B. F. Skinner
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of only standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
America, at its best is compassionate…we know that deep, persistent poverty is unworthy
of our nation’s promise…where there is suffering, there is duty.
George W. Bush
Persistence is what make the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely
definite.
--Robert Half, personnel executive
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
Eleanor Roosevelt
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is a success
- Vince Lombardi
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or doing it better.
- John Updike
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
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When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others, emphasize the
anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.
- Roger Crawford
Live to learn and you will learn to live.
- Portuguese Proverb
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
George Crane
Always take a job that is too big for you.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a
life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success
Irving Berlin
it is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the
first step.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Khalil Gibran
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you
make a life.
- Sandra Carey
Well done is better than well said.
--Benjamin Franklin
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility. Humility is endless.
--T. S. Eliot
A true friend is the best possession.
--Benjamin Franklin
Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.
--Benjamin Franklin
The things which hurt, instruct.
--Benjamin Franklin
To do the right thing for the wrong reason, that is the greatest treason.
T. S. Eliot
Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also
believe.
- Anatole France
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
It is the mind that makes the body.
--Sojourner Truth
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 seem invincible but in
the end, they always fall. Think of it, ALWAYS.
- Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change.
--Charles Darwin
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a
descending spiral of destruction.
The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be
broken, or we shall be plunged into the darkness of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
--German Proverb
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the
most need to know.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
--William James
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
That which hold the attention determines the action.
--William James
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
--Benjamin Disraeli
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first
and then seek to win
--Sun Tzu
Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach.
--Arnold Glasnow
Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself.
--Greek Proverb
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
--William Shakespeare
It takes two to speak the truth—one to speak and another to hear.
--Henry David Thoreau
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they
are told and those who can do nothing else
--Cyrus H. Curtis
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power
--Seneca
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
--Latin proverb
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference
--Robert Frost.
The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.
--Hasidic Saying
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
--Ben Johnson
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage
--Confucius
Be master of your will and a slave to your conscience
--Lieb Lazerow
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to
begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
--Francis Bacon
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not
some reason to fear I may be wrong?
--Jane Austen
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
--Plutarch
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
--James Russell Lowell
Whenever you fall, pick something up.
--Oswald Avery
A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.
--Gisela Richter
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
--T.H. Huxley
Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
--Bill Tilden
Words to live by are just words, unless you live by them.
You have to walk the talk.
- Robert Frost
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions and spends himself in worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end
the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well and doing well
whatever you do.
- Henry wadsworth longfellow
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what
he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
The game of life is a lot like football.
You have to tackle your problems, block your fears,
and score your points when you get the opportunity.
- Lewis Grizzard
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The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When you reach the gates of heaven, God will not ask you what you have. He will ask you
what you gave.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the
aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
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The best way to predict your future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker
If life is action and passion it is required of a man to share in the passion and action of
his time at the peril of being judged never to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
one of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention.
- jim rohn
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
--Will Rogers
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
--Charles Schwab
To create one’s own world takes courage.
--Georgia O’Keeffe
There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
--Lucille Ball
It’s time to start living the life we’ve imagined.
--Henry James
You can never find yourself until you face the truth.
--Pearl Bailey
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
--Muhammad Ali
Courage is grace under pressure.
--Ernest Hemingway
I succeed because I expect to.
- Michael Weinbach
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is
ours.
--Dag Hammarskjold
We make ourselves rich by making our wants few.
--Henry David Thoreau
The price of greatness is responsibility
--Winston Churchill
Trust in your own untried capacity.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
--Sophia Loren
Life itself is the proper binge.
--Julia Child
We can do no great things—only small things with great love.
--Mother Teresa
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
--R.G. Ingersoll
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy; if a blade of grass springing up in the
fields has power to move you; if the simple things of nature have a message that you
understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
- Eleonora Duse
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
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Love freely given has no beginning and no end.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you
don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.
- Coretta Scott King
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Twenty Keys to a Happy Day
1. Watch a sunrise.
2. Be the first to say "hello."
3. Live beneath your means.
4. Treat everyone as you want to be treated.
5. Be in charge of your own choices.
6. Remember someone's name.
7. Seek wisdom and courage rather than things and recognition.
8. Be tough minded but tender hearted.
9. Be kinder than you have to be.
10. Don't forget that a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
11. Keep your promises.
12. Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don't feel it.
13. Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.
14. Leave everthing better than you found it.
15. Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.
16. When you arrive at your job in the morning let the first thing you say brighten everyone's day.
17. Don't rain on other people's parades.
18. Don't waste an opportunity to tell someone they're special.
19. Compliment three people every day.
20. Never give up on anybody; miracles do happen.
- Author Unknown
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Don't waste your life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard, Educator
Don't fight forces; use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor & Educator
The Positive Side of Life
Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.
You may be the only person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened.
Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names,
and all are different colors, but they all exist very nicely in the same box.
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within
yourself..that's where it's at."
- Jesse Owens
Written by Andy Rooney, a man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words.
I've learned.... That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act
goofy with.
I've learned.... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.
I've learned.... That to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to
hurt you.
I've learned.... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter
than I am.
I've learned.... That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.
I've learned.... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did
wonders for me as an adult.
I've learned.... That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
I've learned... That under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
I've learned.... That no one is perfect until you fall in love with them.
I've learned.... That love, not time, heals all wounds.
--Andy Rooney
Written by Andy Rooney, a man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words.
I've learned.... That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
I've learned.... That when you're in love, it shows.
I've learned.... That just one person saying to me, "You've made my day!" makes my day.
I've learned.... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the
world.
I've learned.... That being kind is more important than being right.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the
same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
--Marie Curie
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me is
more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than
success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The
remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that
day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain
way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string
we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me
and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…We are in charge of our ATTITUDES.
--Chuck Swindoll
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
--Gail Sheehy
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
--Prince Phillip of England
Change is the only evidence of life.
--Evelyn Waugh
Discovery lies in seeing what everyone else sees, but thinking what no one has thought.
- Author Unknown
They are able because they think they are able.
- Vergil (70-19 B.C.)
I believe that the details of our lives will be forgotten by most, but the emotion and the spirit will linger
with those who shared it, and be part of them forever.
--Liv Ullmann
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
- Eric Butterworth
The greatest danger for most of us is not that we aim too high and we miss it, but that
we aim to low and we make it.
- Michelangelo
The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your
everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
- Harold S. Geneen, Former Chair, IT&T
Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative
sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
- Wanda Carter
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- The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself often well beyond any latent
ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses.-
- Bryce Courtenay from The Power Of One
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
- H.T. Leslie
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We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- C. G. Jung
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most do.
- Dale Carnegie
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
- Paul Harvey
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We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How we deal with them ultimately determines how
successful we are.
- Craig McFarlane
In matters of principle, stand like a rock;
in matters of taste, swim with the current.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Author Unknown
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
Take this quiz:
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world.
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series winners.
How did you do?
The point is, none of us remember the all headliners of yesterday. These are no second-rate achievers.
They are the best in their fields. But the applause dies. Awards tarnish. Achievements are forgotten.
Accolades and certificates are buried with their owners.
Here's another quiz. See how you do on this one:
1. List a few teachers who aided your journey through school.
2. Name three friends who have helped you through a difficult time.
3. Name five people who have taught you something worthwhile.
4. Think of a few people who have made you feel appreciated and special.
5. Think of five people you enjoy spending time with. 6. Name half a dozen heroes whose stories have
inspired you.
Easier?
The lesson:
The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the most credentials, the most money,
or the most awards. They are the
ones that care.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
--Winston Churchill
Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
- Madeline L'Engle
A competitive world has two possibilities for you. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.
- Lester C. Thurow
Though much is taken, much abides: and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.—from Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
- Japanese Proverb
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Great things are done by people who think great thoughts and then go out into the world
to make their dreams come true.
- Author Unknown
We must believe in each other and feel that it can be done and must be done; in that way
we are enormously strong. We must keep up each other's courage.
- Vincent Van Gogh
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In Celebration of Independence Day, July 4:
The Declaration of Independence: "We hold these Truths to be self evident, that all Men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,
and the Pursuit of Happiness."
Preamble of the Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America."
Thomas Jefferson "If you expect a nation to be ignorant and free, you expect what never was and can never
be."
Abraham Lincoln: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question,'Is it
politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right."
Mahatma Ghandi: "No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom."
When you rule your mind you rule your world. When you choose your thoughts you choose results.
- Imelda Shanklin
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter the way you meet them.
- Phyllis Bottome
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.- Robert Frost
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting start is breaking your complex
overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and
then starting on the first one. - Mark Twain
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. - Dr. Robert Anthony
1. Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
2. The pessimist may be right in the long run, but the optimist has a better time during the trip.
3. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
4. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant wit the weak and wrong...because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.
5. How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you are on.
6 We could learn a lot from crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird
names, and all are different colors,....but they all have to learn to live in the same box.
7. There are two ways to reach the top of an oak tree. You can climb it, or you can sit on an acorn and
wait.
8. The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser-in case you thought optimism was
dead.
9. Exercises to avoid: jumping to conclusions, spinning your wheels, flying off the handle, jogging unhappy
memories, climbing the walls, beating your head against the wall, throwing your weight around and running in
circles.
10. Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
11. Inside every older person is a younger person-wondering what the hell happened.
12. Take life by the horns and hang on!
The Blue of Heaven is larger than the clouds
The beginning of wisdom is the realization that the thing you are anxious about today won’t seem important
tomorrow
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Power is the ability to do good things for others.
- Brooke Astor
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of
life, people and reality to something more positive...and begin to act accordingly.- Shakti Gawain
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.- Joe Batten
Scottish Proverbs:
If you don't see the bottom, don't wade.
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Confessed faults are half mended.
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
1-People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
2-If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
3-If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
4-The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
5-Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
6-The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with
the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
7-People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8-What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
9-People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
10-Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.
We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly. - Luciano de
Crescenzo
Excellence comes from people. It happens one day at a time, one person at a time, one behavior at a time.
- Eric Harvey & Steve Ventura, Walk The Talk
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.- The
Dalai Lama
1. Life is a journey...not a destination. Enjoy
the trip!
2. The biggest lie on the planet: "When I get
what I want I will be happy."
3. The best way to escape your problem is to
solve it.
4. I've learned that ultimately , 'takers' lose
and 'givers' win.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing
its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human
being can fight; and never stop fighting.- e. e. cummings
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.- Herodotus
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been
given him. This is success, and there is no other.- Orison Swett Marden
There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be
built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.
- Buck Rodgers
Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.- Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
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
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the
phone is for you. - Fran Lebowitz
There are no old people nowadays, they are either "wonderful for their age" or dead. - Mary Pettibone
Poole
The best way to motivate other people to help you fulfill your goals is to help them fulfill their goals.
- Deepak Chopra
As the pressures of life intensify, sometimes the
difference between going after a dream and remaining passive is having someone say, "I believe in you!"
- Greg Smalley,Psychologist
The senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Flint, Dr. Lawrence Kent, finishes his sermons by saying:
"Go with joy; Live in faith; Believe that life is good; and if you find it not, help make it so."
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Hope is the ability to hear the music of the future, faith is the courage to dance to it today.
- Peter Kuzmic
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and
listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
- Robert Ingersoll
To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
- Robert Jarvik
No matter what our attempts to inform, it is our ability to inspire that will turn the tides.
- Syracuse Cultural Workers
A sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to our steps as we walk the tightrope of life.
- Author Unknown
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton
I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.- Sugar Ray Robinson
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
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
- Ruth Ross
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
- Charles Swindoll
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
- John Burroughs
Grossman's Law: Complex problems have simple, easy-to-understand wrong answers.
People all support improvement...it's change they don't like. - Author Unknown
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
- Golda Meir
I am firm. Your are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool. - Katharine Whitehorn
Experience: A comb life gives you after you've lost your hair. - Judith Stern
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
- Edith Summerskill
Error Messages in Haiku:
Yesterday it worked. A crash reduces
Today it is not working. Your expensive computer
Windows is like that. To a simple stone.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Aborted effort.
Close all that you have.
You ask way too much.
I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. - Author Unknown
The flogging will continue until morale improves.
- Author Unknown
Worst human emotion - to be stuck with an unmade point. - Author Unknown
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.- Edmund Burke
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.- William James
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,nothing is going to get better. It's not.- Dr. Seuss
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.- Author Unknown
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.- Albert Camus
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out.- Frank A. Clark
To Live Is To Change.To Succeed Is To Change Often. - Ed Parker, "The Zen of Kemp"
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that
created them.- Albert Einstein
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a
mosquito. - Betty Reese
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
~ John W. Whitehead
Effective leaders are not preachers, they are doers. - Peter Drucker
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.- John C. Maxwell
And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is
only by this meeting that a new world is born. - Anais Nin
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to yourself. Treat yourself as you would someone you
really loved. - Louise Hay
Optimism is an intellectual choice"--D Schneider
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
Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby.-- Ruth E.
Renkei
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.- Charles Evans
Hughes (1862-1948)U.S. Supreme Court Justice
You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct.
To be distinct you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one
else but you can be.- Alan Ashley-Pitt
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I
suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of
personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.- Leo F. Buscaglia
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I
intended to be.
- Douglas Adams
SUCCESS
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say that my glory was that I had such friends.
- William Butler Yeats
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy
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
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit
to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.- H. L. Mencken
Suffrage is the pivotal right. - Susan B. Anthony
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice
and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from
other men. Lyndon B. Johnson
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To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One
who does not vote has no right to complain. - Louis L'Amour
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets. - Abraham Lincoln
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The
ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a president and senators and congressmen and
government officials, but the voters of this country. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
He battled depression.
He had 2 business failures resulting in bankruptcy.
He was defeated once for the state legislature.
He had a sweetheart/fiancee die.
He was defeated 3 times for the U.S. Congress.
He was defeated 2 times for the U.S. Senate.
He was defeated as a Vice-Presidential candidate.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States.
Never give up!
Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great
dream. –Robert Greenleaf
If you think you can, or if you think you can’t, you are right. –Henry Ford
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but what we refuse to destroy. --John
Sawhill
"What we vividly imagine, ardently desire, enthusiastically act upon, must inevitably come
to pass." (Colin P. Sisson)
Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough. --John Adams
From the Tree of Life, each leaf must fall
The green, the gold, the great, the small…
Each one in God’s own time, He’ll call
With perfect love, He gathers all.
Truth exists. Only lies are invented. Georges Braques
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing
point.—C.S. Lewis
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing
in prayer—Ghandi
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.
- Eric Butterworth
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to
live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are
here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand—Woodrow
Wilson
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educatied failures. Persistence and
determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
The greatest thing a human being ever doe in this world is to see something…To see
clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion—John Ruskin
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.—Eric Hoffer
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.—Henry W
Longfellow
If you have but one wish, let it be for an idea.—Percy Sutton
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived
with grace—Tennessee Williams
Statesmen rise and fall on the smallest of actions—Mark Helprin
Goodness is the only investment that never fails—Henry David Thoreau
Never confuse movement with action—Ernest Hemingway
Procrastination is the thief of time—Edward Young
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the
end—Ursula K. LeGuin
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage—Claude M. Bristol
How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take,
luck is what comes afterwards—Amy Tan
A window of opportunity won’t open itself—Dave Weinbaum
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd—George Bernard
Shaw
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth
doing—Theodore Roosevelt
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after
the reason for which we sought it has passed—Ellen Glasgow
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped
by the many acts of the small—Mark Yost
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with strugglign and
enduring and accomplishing—George Sheehan
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle—
Kahlil Gibran
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat—Sir Winston Churchill
Never forget that all you have is all you need—Sarah Ban Breathnach
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have—Doris
Mortman
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most—Samuel Butler
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one
can take for us or spare us—Marcel Proust
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right—Henry Ford
Don’t find fault, find a remedy—Henry Ford
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value—
Albert Einstein
The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people—Ken Blanchard
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have no interests—John Stuart Mill
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that
we really need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about—Charles Kingsley
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year—Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I can rejoice for a moment, Death at an early age would still be a long life—Yuan Mei
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do the worst, for I have lived today—John Dryden
Dreams, so they say, are for the fools but they let em slip away—Crosby Nash Stills &
Young
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit—Napoleon Hill
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might—
Cicero
If you can walk, you can dance; if you can talk you can sing—African Proverb
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted--Albert Einstein
The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all of your
money—Anonymous
Of all the moments we gather in our lives, the one we cherish most are moments shared
We are each a part of one another, connected by the sweet mystery of life.
There is infinite wisdom in sharing the voice of your heart.
Love's gift is forever, for time has no meaning in matters of the heart.
Friendship nourishes the soul.
In destiny's grand design there are no random meetings for all is meant to be.
Kindred spirits share laughter, hopes and dreams.
Time may be fleeting, but the warmth of human experiences endures.
beautiful people cause beautiful thing to happen.
Some people move our souls to sing and make our spirits dance.
In the sharing of ordinary moments, we discover food for the soul.
Life is a series of new beginnings, and every passage in time brings beauty to the dance.
Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional
universe which he inhabits—Fulton J. Sheen
We all inhabit the same small planet
we all breathe the same air
we all cherish our children's future
and we are all mortal—JFK
A civilization able to envision God and to embark on the colonization of space will surely
find the way to save the integrity of this planet and the magnificent life it harbors--
E.O.Wilson
If you start to think the problem is ―out there‖ stop yourself. That thought is the
problem—The Daily Guru
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is
what makes the difference—Virginia Satir.
Failure is impossible—last (public) words of Susan B. Anthony
There is no death for such as she. There are no last words of love. The ages to come
will revere her name. Unnumbered generations of the children of men shall rise up to call
her blessed. That which seems death to our unseeing eyes is to her translation. Her
work will not be finished nor will her last word be spoken, while there remains a wrong to
be righted or a fettered life to be freed in all the earth. You do well to strew her bier
with palms of victory and to crown her with unfading laurel, for never did more victorious
her enter into rest—Anna Howard Shaw (eulogy for Susan B. Anthony)
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise or blame—Thomas A Kempis
You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in—Arlo Guthrie
If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!—Jonathan Winters
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within
us—Emerson
The mind is its own place, and in itself it can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven—
John Milton
"No ray of sunshine is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time
to sprout, and it is not always granted for the sower to see the harvest. All work that is
worth anything is done in faith." -Albert Schweitzer
Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one person can do against
the enormous array of the world’s ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the
greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.
And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.—Robert
Francis Kennedy
We ourselves must be full of life if we are going to make life fuller for others—David
Sawyer
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college
degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You
don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s
theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grage A soul
generated by love.—Martin Luther King, Jr.
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not
respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. We
destroy them, or try to destroy them, with our obsessive and absurd sytematizations.
Whether we do this in the name of matter or in the name of spirit makes no difference in
the end. There are atheists who fight God and atheists who claim to believe in Him: what
they both have in common is the hatred of life, the fear of the unpredictable, the dread
of grace, and the refusal of every spiritual gift—Thomas Merton
Don’t live your entire life with the music still inside you—Dr. Wayne Dyer
No where—now here—no where Dr. Dyer
Our task…is to find the few principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls.
We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in world so
obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more…It is a superhuman task, but
superhuman is the term fo tasks that take a long time to accomplish, that’s all—Albert
Camus
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
Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them—Lady Bird Johnson
Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do
our duty as we understand it—Abraham Lincoln
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self—May Sarton
Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down—Wilson
Mizner
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a
conversation—or a relationship—Deborah Tannen
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be—Robert Browning
Love can be its own reward—Arnold Lobel
We find comfort among those who agree with us—growth among those who don’t—Frank A
Clark
The first duty of love is to listen—Paul Tillich
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in—Robert
Frost
We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle—Agnes Repplier
Let us go singing as far as we go; the road will be less tedious—Virgil
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone—
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom—Anatole France
The last of the human freedoms: to choose one’s attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one’s own way—Viktor Frankl
Focusing our attention—daily and hourly—not on what is wrong, but on what we love and
value, allow us to participate in the birth of a better future, ushered in by the choices we
make each and every day—Carol Pearson
The men who have done big things are thos who were not afraid to attempt big things,
who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success—B C Forbes
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them—Kahlil Gibran
Fall seven times, stand up eight—Japanese Proverb
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness—Chinese Proverb
Each human spirit is immortal—for time cannot destroy whatever element within us
reverences the glory of a dawn in the mountains—Dervla Murphy
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing
point—C.S. Lewis
Peace means loyalty to self…And loyalty to one’s self means never a gap between thought,
speech, act—Ruth Beebe Hill
Truth exists; only lies are invented—Georges Braque
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value—Albert Einstein
True greatness consists in being great in little things—Charles Simmons
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter—Martin Luther
King Jr.
To remain young one must change—Alexander Chase
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found—
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory—W. Edwards Deming
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two
small steps—David Lloyd George
What can one do with the past? Forgive it. Let it enter into you in peace—Dame Iris
Murdoch
If something can’t go on forever, it won’t—economist’s saying
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted—
Sebastien-Roch Nicholas de Chamfort
People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.—Mother Teresa
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it—
Samuel Butler
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing
in prayer—Ghandi
Love and you shall be loved—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest of all miracles is to be alive—Thich Nhat Hanh
There are no ordinary moments—Dan Millman
Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower—Shigenori Kameoka
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit—Napoleon Hill
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known—Carl Sagan
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are—
George Eliot
If thou hast commenced a good action, leave it not incomplete—The Talmud
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together—
Vincent Van Gogh
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand—Confucius
I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends
on our dispositions, and not our circumstances—Martha Washington
The difference between the most dissimilar characters…seems to arise not so much from
nature, as from habit, custom, and education—Adam Smith
The shortest answer is doing—English proverb
Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber’d oak—
William Shakespeare
A well-spent day bring happy sleep—Leonardo da Vinci
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece—John Ruskin
The work praises the man—Irish proverb
When you have decided what you believe, what you feel must be done, have the courage
to stand alone and be counted—Eleanor Roosevelt
He turns not back who is bound to a star—Leonardo da Vinci
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world—
William Shakespeare
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times—Johann von Schiller
The great essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope
for—Thomas Chalmers
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others—Robert Louis Stevenson
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to
look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do—Eleanor Roosevelt
Live all you can. It’s a mistake not to—Henry James
Success should not be judged by the position that one has attained, but by the barriers
that he faced to get there—Booker T Washington
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
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>1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the
>doctors worry about them. That is why you pay " them " .
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>2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
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>3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let
the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is
Alzheimer's.
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>4. Enjoy the simple things.
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>5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
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>6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our
entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
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>7. Surround yourself with what you love, Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music,
plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
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>8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is
beyond what you can improve, get help.
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>9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign
country but NOT to where the guilt is.
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>10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
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>AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
>Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take
our breath away.
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Neither talent without instruction, nor instruction without talent can produce the perfect
craftsman—Vitruvius
The vital successful people I have met all had one common characteristic. They had a
plan—Marilyn Van Derbur
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today—Abraham Lincoln
Not all who wander are lost—J.R.R.Tolkien
Don’t count the days—make the days count—Ed Agresta
But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the
one which has opened for us—Helen Keller
Inches make a champion—Vince Lombardi
There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.—Gloria Steinem
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything.—Lee Iacocca
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is—Mary Pettibone
Poole
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes—
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out,
you don’t try—you don’t take the risk—Rosalynn Carter
They are able because they think they are able—Virgil
When you choose your fields of labor, go where nobody else is willing to go—Mary Lyon
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for
tomorrow—Melody Beattie
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of
wisdom—Theodore Isaac Rubin
You never find yourself until you face the truth—Pearl Bailey
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little—
William R. Alger
Character is much easier kept than recovered—Thomas Paine
Half the joy of life is in little thing taken on the run…but let us keep our hearts young and
our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.—Victor Cherbuliez
Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me
across the sky—Ojibway Proverb
The key to change…is to let go of fear—Rosanne Cash
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but
because they are not already common—John Locke
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones—John
Maynard Keynes
―Tradition‖ is very often an excuse word for people who don’t want to change—Red Barber
Life is not a static thing—Everett McKinley Dirksen
The absurd man is he who never changes—Auguste Barthelemy
The moment of change is the only poem—Adrienne Rich
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong…in other words, that he
is wiser today than he was yesterday—Jonathan Swift
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion—James Russell Lowell
The human spirit lives on creativity and dies in conformity and routine—Vilayat Inayat
Khan
Make it new—Ezra Pound
Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom—Plato
Humor—the ability to laugh at life—is right at the top, with love and communication, in the
hierarchy of our needs—Sue Davidson
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle—James Keller
If happiness has not her seat
And center in the breast
We may be wise or rich or great
But never can be blest—Robert Burns.
The greatest of all miracles is to be alive—Thich Nhat Hanh
A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions—Marcus Aurelius
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to—Henry James
Imagination is the eye of the soul—Joseph Joubert
When I hear somebody sigh, ―Life is hard,‖ I am always tempted to ask, ―Compared to
what?‖—Sydney J. Harris
In the time of your life—live!—William Saroyan
If I truly love one person, I love all persons, I love the world, I love life—Erich Fromm
Every day is a miracle—James Gould Cozzens
Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you—
Charlene Costanzo
Integrity is never painless—M. Scott Peck
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we can not break it—
Horace Mann
Act as if it were impossible to fail—Dorothea Brandle
Habit is overcome by habit—Thomas a Kempis
If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism—
Immanuel Kant
Make it a point to rid your speech and thoughts of all forms of negative self-talk—Karl
Albrecht
The thoughts you think will irradiate you as though you are a transparent vase—Maurice
Maeterlinck
Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and
happiness—Zoraster
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold—Leonardo da
Vinci
Follow your dream!
You have the ability to attain whatever you seek;
within you is every potential you can imagine.
Always aim higher than you believe you can reach.
So often, you'll discover that when your talents
are set free by your imagination, you can achieve any goal.
If people offer their help or wisdom
as you go through life, accept it gratefully.
You can learn much from those who have gone before you.
But never be afraid or hesitant to step off the accepted path
and head off in your own direction if your heart tells you
that it's the right way for you.
Always believe that you will ultimately succeed
at whatever you do, and never forget the value
of persistence, discipline, and determination.s
You are meant to be whatever you dream of becoming.
Edmund O'Neill
I've Learned...
that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.
I've learned-
that no matter how much I care,
some people just don't care back.
I've learned-
that it takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
I've learned-
that it's not what you have in your life
but who you have in your life that counts.
I've learned-
that you can get by on charm for about fifteen minutes.
After that, you'd better know something.
I've learned-
that you shouldn't compare yourself
to the best others can do.
I've learned-
that you can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.
I've learned-
that it's taking me a long time
to become the person I want to be.
I've learned-
that you should always leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
I've learned-
that you can keep going
long after you can't.
I've learned-
that we are responsible for what we do,
no matter how we feel.
I've learned-
that either you control your attitude
or it controls you.
I've learned-
that regardless of how hot and steamy
a relationship is at first, the passion fades
and there had better be something else to take its place.
I've learned-
that heroes are the people
who do what has to be done
when it needs to be done,
regardless of the consequences.
I've learned-
that money is a lousy way
of keeping score.
I've learned-
that my best friend and I can do anything
or nothing and have the best time.
I've learned-
that sometimes the people you expect
to kick you when you're down
will be the ones to help you get back up.
I've learned-
that sometimes when I'm angry
I have the right to be angry,
but that doesn't give me
the right to be cruel.
I've learned-
that just because someone doesn't love you
the way you want them to
doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
I've learned-
that maturity has more to do with
what types of experiences you've had
and what you've learned from them,
and less to do with how many
birthdays you've celebrated.
I've learned-
that you should never tell a child
their dreams are unlikely or outlandish.
Few things are more humiliating,
and what a tragedy it would be if they believed it.
I've learned-
that no matter how good a friend is,
they're going to hurt you every once in a while
and you must forgive them for that.
I've learned-
that no matter how bad your heart is broken
the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I've learned-
that our background and circumstances
may have influenced who we are,
but we are responsible for who we become.
I've learned-
that even when you think you have no more to give,
when a friend cries out to you,
you will find the strength to help.
Author Unknown
Why Risk It?
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To reach for another is to risk involvement. To
expose your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk losing them. To love is to risk
not being loved in return.To live is to risk dying. To believe is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. People who
risk nothing - do nothing, have nothing, love nothing, are nothing. They may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and fully live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person that risks is free.
Yesterday is already a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
But today, well lived
Makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness
And every tomorrow
A vision of hope.
This can be a good day or a bad day - my choice.
I can be happy or sad - my choice.
I can complain or I can cope - my choice.
Life can be a chore or a challenge - my choice.
I can take from life or give to life - my choice.
If all things are possible,
How I deal with those possibilities is - my choice.
Steve Shackel
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us".
Voltaire
"There are two ways to slide easily through life:
to believe everything you hear or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking."Alfred Korybski.
"I do not pretend to know what ignorant men are sure of." Clarence Darrow
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles
the world.—Albert Einstein
The future ain’t what it used to be—Yogi Berra
Baseball is 90% mental and the other half physical—Yogi Berra
Reflection is the beginning of reform—Mark Twain
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed. Jacques Cousteau
When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he
has no right to keep it to himself. Jacques Cousteau
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because people who mind don't matter and people
who matter don't mind." Theodor Seuss Geisel
Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it—Lisa Alther
John Dryden
Mighty things from small beginnings grow
Horace
He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you
imagine; and at last you create what you will.
Alexander Clark
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather
Success usuallly comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you
are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed
Nelson Boswell
Effort os only effort when it begins to hurt—Jose Ortega y Gasset
The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruiit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace--Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Do something beautiful for God--Mother Teresa
God does not want us to do great things. God wants us to do small
things with great love--Mother Teresa
One who grabs too much, grabs nothing--Rabbis' saying
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to
imitate them. -James Baldwin
> Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas H. Huxley
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas H. Huxley
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
Thomas H. Huxley
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
Thomas H. Huxley
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
Thomas H. Huxley
Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
Thomas H. Huxley
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever
and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas H. Huxley
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we
call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
Thomas H. Huxley
The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
Thomas H. Huxley
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas H. Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas H. Huxley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas H. Huxley
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people
would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you
can survive it.
Bill Cosby
The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruiit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace--Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Do something beautiful for God--Mother Teresa
God does not want us to do great things. God wants us to do small
things with great love--Mother Teresa
One who grabs too much, grabs nothing--Rabbis' saying
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do—Liz Smith
Be so good they can’t ignore you—Jerry Dunn
Doubt of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone—Thomas Carlyle
Whoever loves much, does much—Thomas a Kempis
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us: what we have done for others and
the world remains and is immortal—Albert Pike
Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the
impossible.-Saint Francis
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or touched - they must be felt with
the heart.~Helen Keller~
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
Thomas Jefferson
An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson
Delay is preferable to error.
Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time
who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
Thomas Jefferson
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for
the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish
like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can
apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted
with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power
the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its
majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the
inhabitants of another country.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Thomas Jefferson
Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only
object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus
Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus
To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
Aeschylus
When a man's willing and eager the god's join in.
Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by
drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the
awful grace of God. --Aeschylus
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls
drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God."—Robert Kennedy
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage—Confucius
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief—Heidi Wills
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice;
but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day
or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good
qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Thomas Carlyle
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas Carlyle
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle
No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to
this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever
dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior
ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it
attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do—Goethe
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude
determines how well you do it—Lou Holtz
Humor is a rubber sword – it allow you to make a point without drawing blood—Mary Hirsch
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it
should be!—Miguel de Cervantes
I want to be able to say in the last four seconds of my life that I tried to do my best—
Ruben Blades
A willing heart adds feather to the heel—Joanna Baillie
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet—Emily Dickinson
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand—Patti
Smith
Do all the good you can,…to all the people you can, As long as ever you can—John Wesley
Here’s a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t—
Richard Bach
The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented—Dennis Gabor
Slowing down is sometimes the best way to speed up—Mike Vance
Time is the substance from which I am made—Jorge Luis Borges
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest—
Hasidic Proverb
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present—Albert Camus
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored—Evelyn Waugh
Incident piled on incident no more makes a life than brick piled on brick makes a house—
Edith Ronal Mirrielees
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it—Soren
Kierkegaard
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living—B.C. Forbes
Truth can be outraged by silence quite as cruelly as by speech—Amelia E. Barr
The future never just happened. It was created—Will and Ariel Durant
Expect the best—Joe Batten
Don’t let ideas die of neglect—Harold R. Mcalindon
All serious daring starts from within—Eudora Welty
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it—Barbra Streisand
To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream—Hans Selye
The best informed man is not necessarily the wisest—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I
want to have lived the width of it as well—Diane Ackerman
Power is the ability to do good things for others—Brooke Astor
The idea is to seek a vision that gives you purpose in life and then to implement that
vision—Lewis P. Johnson
It is the mind that makes the body—Sojourner Truth
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself—Anna Brownell Jameson
If we live truly, we shall see truly—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no
virtue—Barry Goldwater
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient—
Ihara Saikaku
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention—Duguet
The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little—Jon Kabat-Zinn
The love we give away is the only love we keep—Elbert Hubbard
Every man hears only what he understands—Goethe
Remembering the past gives power to the present—Faye Myenne Ng
When we are not in love too much, we are not in love enough—Bussy-Rabutin
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man—William Shakespeare
Each President is the President not only of all who live, but , in a very real sense, of all
those who have yet to live—John F. Kennedy
The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, become the explorer of everything else—
Elias Canetti
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds—Francis Bacon
You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life…Your entire life…Not just
the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your
soul—Anna Quindlen
You cannot always control your circumstances, but you can always control your own
thoughts—Charles E. Popplestone
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life—Confucius
Sticking to it is the genius—Thomas Edison
Our children give us the opportunity to become the parent we always wished we’d had—
Louise Hart
Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy—Dale Carnegie
Whoever claims a right for himself must respect the like right in another—James Bryce
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis—Margaret Bonnano
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre—Gail Godwin
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance—Aesop
All men should strive to learn before they die—what they are running from, to, and why—
James Thurber
My own experience has taught me this: if you wait for the perfect moment when all is
safe and assured it may never arrive—Maurice Chevalier
You can’t make some else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours—Colin
Powell
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge—
Albert Einstein
Words are nothing but words; power lies in deeds. Be a person of action—Mali Oriot
Mamadu Konyate
Observe how all things are continually being born of change…Whatever is, is in some sense
the seed of what is to emerge from it—Marcus Aurelius
In love, one and one are one—Jean-Paul Sartre
The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well—Joe Ancis
Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired—you quit when
the gorilla is tired—Robert Strauss
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live—Margaret Fuller
Knowledge must come through action—Trachiniae
Love is not leisure; it is work—Anna Quindlen
Why not spend some time in determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after
that?—William Ross
Nothing succeeds like success—Alexandre Dumas
I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all
the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking
pleasantly—Robert Louis Stevenson
The heart that gives…gathers—English Proverb
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come—
Janet Erskine Stuart
The lesser evil is also evil—Naomi Mitchison
No man is wise enough by himself—Plautus
An ounce of peace is worth more than a pound of victory—St. Robert Bellarmine
Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow—Yiddish Proverb
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world—Joseph Conrad
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings—C. D. Jackson
Only a life lived for others is worth living—Albert Einstein
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die—Eleanor Roosevelt
Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where
there is no continuity, there is no growth—C.S. Lewis
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfill nothing—Carl Jung
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give—Winston Churchill
We must be the change we wish to see in the world—Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine actions than in the nonperformance
of base ones—Aristotle
Life is nothing but a series of moments. Start living the moments and the years will take
care of themselves—Gary W. Fenchuk
The mind is not a storehouse to be filled but an instrument to be used—John Gardner
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with
their ingenuity—George S. Patton
Strength in numbers is the delight of the timid. The valiant in spirit glory in fighting
alone—Mahatma Gandhi
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right
thing—Oscar Wilde
You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are—Anna Quindlen
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what
we could become—Charles Du Bos
Don’t hurry. Don’t worry—Walter Hagan
There is no such thing as expecting too much—Susan Cheever
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
rich—John F. Kennedy
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving—Amy Carmichael
What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you—Seneca
Seize the moment before it’s gone, For another day begins at dawn—Clay Harrison
A good laugh is sunshine in a house—William Makepeace Thackeray
Love our principle, order our foundation, progress our goal—Auguste Comte
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity—Horace Mann
There is no wealth but life—John Ruskin
Before me peaceful. Behind me peaceful. Under me peaceful. Over me peaceful. Around
me peaceful—Navajo Blessing
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world—Isadora
Duncan
Prosperity proves the fortunate; adversity, the great—Pliny the Younger
Time as he grows old teaches all thing—Aeschylus
The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange—Thiruvalluvar
Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know—Muhammad
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent—Jimmy Carter
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge—Daniel
J. Boorstein
We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life—Bertrand Russell
Believe that you have it, and you have it—Latin Proverb
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being—Albert Einstein
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do—Martha Grimes
If you are what you do, then when you don’t you aren’t—Dr. Wayne Dyer
After all, it’s what we do that makes us what we are—Jim Croce
An ―intellectual‖ is a man who takes more words than he needs to say more than he
knows—Dwight D. Eisenhower
The future is much like the present, only longer—Don Quisenberry
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects—Will Rogers
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough—Ella
Wheeler Wilcox
I have to be wrong a certain number of times in order to be right a certain number of
times. However, in order to be either, I must first make a decision—Frank N. Giampietro
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying—Charles F. Gellert
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt—Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments—Rose Kennedy
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered—Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound—Quintus Curtius Rufus
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward—Abraham Lincoln
Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and
devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and
joy—Francis P. Church
I don't know Who - or what - put the question. I don't know when it was put. I don't
even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone - or
Something - and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that,
therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. From that moment I have known
what it meant "not to look back," and "To take no thought for the morrow." Led by the
Ariadne's thread of my answer through the labyrinth of Life, I came to a time and place
where I realized that the Way leads to a triumph which is a catastrophe, and to a
catastrophe which is a triumph, that the price for committing one's life would be
reproach, and that the only elevation possible to man lies in the depths of humiliation.
After that, the word "courage" for me lost its meaning, since nothing could be taken from
me. As I continued along the Way, I learned, step by step, word by word, that behind
every saying in the Gospels stands one man and one man's experience. Also behind the
prayer that the cup might pass from him and his promise to drink it. Also behind each of
the words from the Cross—Dag Hammarskjöld.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose—
Indira Gandhi
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined…to
strengthen each other…to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories—George
Eliot
Laughter is an instant vacation—Milton Berle
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control
our thoughts—Charles Darwin
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love—Martin Luther King Jr.
Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for
indolence—Benjamin Haydon
He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does
not perform what he has promised, is a traitor to his friend—George Shelley
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move
forward with strong and active faith—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshiped—Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt—William Van Horne
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is—Erasmus
Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee—Ben Jonson
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves—Eric Hoffer
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities,
industry will supply their deficiency—Sir Joshua Reynolds
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism
or politics—Charles Bukowski
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we
have already done—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would
come to be different—Katherine Mansfield
Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world—Samahria Lyte
Kaufman
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do—
Ethel Barrett
I am more and more convince that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way
we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves—Alexander
Humboldt
Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of
benediction—―If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.‖—Joan McIntosh
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?—George Eliot
Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.
"Know the Client, Own the Problem, Share the Solution"
The Greatest Gift One Could Ever Receive Is:
The Gift of Joy Felt In Your Heart When Giving To Help Someone In Need!
Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.
"Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the
inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but
only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most
for others."
Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, Educator and Author
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some
kind of battle...
Author unknown
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible
and achieves the impossible.