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We should all be
concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives
there. ~Charles Franklin Kettering
I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who overcomes his enemies.~Aristotle
I make
it my business to have a great day every day. ~Wilma Gawne-Bloder
Give
me a firm place to stand, and I will move the earth. ~Archimedes
The
sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. ~Henry Ward Beecher
People are like teabags. You
never know how strong they are until they’re in hot water. ~Author
Rita Mae Brown
If we take people
as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as they ought to be, we help
them become what they are capable
of becoming. ~Goethe 1749-1832
Fashion is what
you adopt when you don’t know who you are. ~Quentin Crisp
The person who knows
“how” will always have a job. The person who knows “why” will always be his
boss. ~Diane Ravitch
And
thou shall have dominion over all the beasts... except, of course, for cats.
~Felines: 12-15
Many are chosen,
but few come when you call them. ~Canines: 3-5
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to
it.
There is no king
who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a
king among his. ~Helen Keller
Everywhere in
life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. ~Carlyle
Become so wrapped
in something that you forget to be afraid. ~Lady Bird Johnson
Leaders must be close enough
to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them. ~John Maxwell
When a man
assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. ~Thomas Jefferson
Kindness is the
golden chain by which society is bound together. ~Johann W.van Goethe
Beauty is the
mark God sets upon virtue. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what
happens, there is always someone who knew it would.
We’d all like to
do the “important work”---if it’s not too tiring, and the responsibility isn’t
too great.
There is only one
letter’s difference between think and thank. If we thought more, we would thank
more.
Pride is the most
peculiar disease known to the human family; it makes everyone sick except the
fellow who has it.
You can always
tell when you’re on the road to success--it’s uphill all the way. ~Paul Harvey
It isn’t
necessary to blow out the other person’s candle in order to let your own light
shine.
It seems there
are two kinds of people--the good and the bad. It also seems the classifying is
done by the good.
Too many people
are willing to carry the bench when there is a piano to be moved.
It is a
psychological paradox that those who are most afraid to die are most afraid to
live; and in seeking to cheat death, they defraud themselves of life. ~Sydney
J.Harris
In every choice
we have the opportunity to be or do something special or something
ordinary--Think about it!
If you owned
everything your heart desired, chances are your heart would desire something
else.
Anyone who throws
his weight around is going to have to pick it up sooner or later.
Autumn is the
mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we gain in fruits. ~Samuel Butler
The secret of
happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. ~Sir James Barrie
All good things that exist are the fruit of
originality. ~John Stewart Mill
We can be
knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other
men’s wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne
Thought is the blossom,
language is the bud, and action is the fruit behind it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be glad of life
because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up
at the stars. ~H.Van Dyke
Some folks are
like a blister on the thumb; they don’t show up until the job is done.
It is wrong to
cripple a man, and then criticize the way he walks.
Though we travel
the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it
not. ~R.W.Emerson
Remember that
what you possess in this world will be found at the day of your death and
belong to someone else. What you are will be yours forever.
The common
denominator of success--its secret for which many men have hunted--is simple.
It is merely the fact that the successful man has formed a habit of doing
things that failures don’t like to do.
The world is a
company to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Life has a way of
balancing out; we split the atom--now the atom is splitting us!
Let us permit
nature to have her way; she understands her business more than we do. ~M.de Montaigne
Try to know
everything about something, and something of everything. ~H.P., Lord Broughman
Life is a
grindstone--whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what
you’re made of.
Take care of the
little things and the big things will take care of themselves.
Our greatest
glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~O.Goldsmith
One of the greatest
pleasures in life is conversation. ~S.Smith
Our greatest,
being also by nature our quietest, are perhaps those that remain unknown. ~T.Carlyle
Perfect freedom is reserved for
the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. ~R.G.Collingwood
One should count
each day as a separate life. ~Seneca
Time is our
destiny. Time is our hope. Time is our despair. And time is the mirror in which
we see eternity. ~Paul Tillich
Not what we give,
but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare. ~J.R.Lowel
If you are too
big to be willing to do little things, you are probably too little to be
trusted with big things.
Don’t sacrifice
the permanent on the altar of the temporary.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so
companionable as solitude. ~Thoreau
Footprints in the sands of
time are not made by sitting down.
The correct way to measure
human life is not by its duration, but by its donation. ~K.T.Moyer
Prejudice is a timesaver; it
enables you to pass judgment without getting the facts.
Wouldn’t it be nice if more
people would take their noses out of other people’s business and put their
hearts into other people’s problems?
Wonder rather than doubt is
the root of knowledge. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel
Think a moment about a
water-saturated sponge. If we push
down with our finger even slightly, water runs out onto the table. We immediately know what fills the
interior pockets of the sponge.
The same is true of ourselves.
We can tell what fills us on the inside by what comes out under pressure.
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