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There's a myth that time is money. In fact, time is more precious than money. It's a nonrenewable resource. Once you've spent it, and if you've spent it badly, it's gone forever. -- Neil Fiore When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself. -- Fortune Cookie To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. -- Attributed to Abraham Lincoln One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. -- Gordon B. Hinckley My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. -- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950 It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. -- Benjamin E. Mays To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Promote yourself but do not demote another. -- Israel Salanter Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. -- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Frog and the Ox Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napolean Bonaparte The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. -- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- G.W.F. Hegel When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. -- Bernard Bailey The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.' -- F.H. Bradley Conceit is God's gift to little men. -- Bruce Barton The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process. -- Barbara Colorose What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. -- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses For God hates utterly . The bray of bragging tongues. -- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone History is is universal experience--infinitely longer, wider, and more varied than any individual's experience. How often do we hear people claim knowledge of the world and of life because they are sixty or seventy years old? . . There is no excuse for any literate person if he is less than three thousand years old in mind. -- Liddell Hart History is a catalogue of mistakes. It is our duty to profit by them" -- Liddell Hart George C. Marshall, as future Chief of Staff, regarded his two years at the Army Staff College is 1906-08 as having been "immensely instructive," but not because of the quality of the courses there. "The association with the officers. the reading we did and the discussion . . . had a tremendous effect. . . . I learned little I could use," Marshall wrote, but "I learned how to learn. . . . My habits of thought were being trained."[51] -- Jay Luvaas [Purpose of history] is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death, and how high ranking individuals react when submitted to the onerous responsibility of conducting war or the preparations for war. The acquisition of knowledge concerning the dates or places on which certain events transpired is immaterial . . . . -- General George S. Patton SOMEBODY, AFTER ALL, HAD TO MAKE A START. WHAT WE WROTE AND SAID IS ALSO BELIEVED BY MANY OTHERS. THEY JUST DON'T DARE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES AS WE DID. -- Sophie Scholl , student resistance member of the White Rose against Nazism and atrocities The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small. It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. -- Sophie Scholl There must be more to life than having everything. -- Tom Robbins Don't play for safety -- it's the most dangerous thing in the world. -- Hugh Walpole Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. -- Sydney Smith Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. -- Michael J. Gelb The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. -- Thomas Carlyle Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. -- Vernon Sanders Law Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, to can become great.' -- Mark Twain Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. -- Dr. Dale E. Turner Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. -- William Makepeace Thackeray Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -- Rodin The best index of a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b)how he treats people who can't fight back. -- Abigail Van Burren A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends. -- Henry Brooks Adams No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy. -- Laurence Olivier Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -- Judy Garland 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 There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. -- Epicetus A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. -- A.A. Milne, from The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgement. -- Ralph Marston No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -- Dr. Joyce Brothers The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James Tonight, when you lay your head on your pillow, forget how far you still have to go. Look instead at how far you've already come. -- Bob Moawad If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking. -- General George Patton Jr Experience is not what happens to a person, it's what a person does with what happens to him. -- Aldous Huxley Ani Ma'amin (I Believe) I believe in the sun Even when it is not shining. I believe in love Even when feeling it not. I believe in God Even when God is silent. "This text was found by Allied troops in 1945. It was written on the wall of a basement in Cologne, Germany, presumably by someone hiding from the Gestapo. In its simplicity, it is a profound statement of faith in the midst of adversity." by Becky Alison I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. -- Unknown Judge not a man by how he treats his equals, but by how he treats those he views as inferior. -- Unknown Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -- Henry Ford I no longer seek to define myself externally, through goals and achievements and material possessions. -- Beck Weathers All generalizations are untrue. -- Raymond Tan Funny In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school boards. -- Mark Twain I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. - -- Marie Corelli I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. -- Walt Disney Marathon and Running The marathon, you see, is my benchmark. It is the status symbol in my community, the running community. -- Dr. George Sheehan You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally. -- Frank Shorter I'm never going to run another marathon. -- Oprah Winfrey I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion i have ever known. -- Emil Zatopek's description of his Olympic Marathon win If everybody could get in on this [running] on a world scale, it would really be hard for people to go to war. -- Ron Daves, at the 1992 U.S. Marathon Trials Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting. -- Veikko Karvonen, 1954 European and Boston Marathon Champ You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming. -- Frank Shorter Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when awareness comes, it is excruciating. -- John Farrington, Australian marathoner There is the truth about the marathon and very few of you have written the truth. Even if I explain to you, you'll never understand it, you're outside of it. -- Douglas Wakiihuri speaking to journalists As marathoners, we play with this notion of survival. In real life, in times of war and peace, it sometimes becomes the only thing a human can focus on. -- Don Kardong We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon. Emil Zatopek To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind. -- Jerome Drayton I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here. -- Uta Pippig You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally. -- Frank Shorter At the two-thirds mark, I think of those who are still with me. Who might make a break? Should I? Then I give it all I've got. -- Ibrahim Hussein, on marathon tactics I'm never going to run this again. -- Grete Waitz after winning her first of nine New York City marathons The marathon can humble you. -- Bill Rodgers I am too tired, even to be happy. -- Gelindo Bordin, Italy, immediately after winning the Olympic Marathon in Seoul I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known. -- Emil Zatopek's description of the Olympic Marathon win in Helsinki Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race. -- Ron Hill to Jerome Drayton during the 1970 Boston Marathon The New York Marathon: a fantastic event. -- Pope John Paul II, 1982 Anyone can run 20 miles. It's the next six that count. -- Barry Magee, marathon bronze in Rome, 1960 A marathon is like life with its ups and downs, but once you've done it you feel that you can do anything. -- unknown To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. -- Steve Prefontaine, runner I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it. -- Steve Prefontaine How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my life people have been telling me, 'You're too small Pre', 'You're not fast enough Pre', 'Give up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I HAVE TO WIN. -- Steve Prefontaine It's elevating and humbling at the same time. Running along a beach at sunrise with no other footprints in the sand, you realize the vastness of creation, your own insignificant space in the plan, how tiny you really are, your own creatureliness and how much you owe to the supreme body, the God that brought all this beauty and harmony into being. -- Sister Marion Irvine, 2.52 PR and 1984 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier, from the The Quotable Runner Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. -- Oprah Winfrey, from the The Quotable Runner We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Top Pain is temporary, pride is forever! --anonymous "Running is one of the contexts I've created for myself, one of the things that orders my life, that fills it with metaphor and meaning. The point of running for me is not to cover ground more quickly; for that I could use a motorcycle. The point has to do with seeking out my limits, centering my attention: finding out who I am." ~ -- Bill McKibben "Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do. Got that?" -- Jeff Fisher, head coach of the Tennessee Titans as quoted in the October 2006 Runner's World Quotes by Rachel Joy Scott (Her Web Page) Everything you say to a friend will either build them up or tear them down; there is no middle ground. How does my next decision affect the rest of my life? I won't be labeled as average. I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus,I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put into me. If have to sacrifice everything. . . I will. Go after God. Whatever it takes, do it. And don't give the excuse,I am just a teenager or I'll do that when I grow up, because itdoesn’t work that way. God wants to know you NOW. I write not for the sake of glory not for the sake of fame not for the sake of succsess But for the sake of my Soul. |
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