Kevan's Obligatory Page of Quotes - Page Two

51. I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.
Mark Twain

52. Make a firm decision now... you can always change it later.

53. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and not tonics so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orson Swett Marden

54. The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer everybody else up.
Mark Twain

55. You may not be able to control which way the wind is blowing, but you can control which way to set your sails.

56. We are primarily put on this earth not to see through on another, but to see one another through.
Peter DeVries

57. Victory requires maxium effort.

58. Great corporations aren't created by single heroic deeds, but by continuous small things done right.
Tony Frank

59. The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
Oliver Wendall Jones

60. Science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

61. The reason some people don't recognize opportunity is that it is often comes disguised as hard work.

62. If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
Jules Renard

63. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.
Shakyamuni Buddha

64. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only and adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. Chesterson.

65. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theris, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
Jean Kerr

66.To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

67. Happiness is a process, not a destination.

68. You may be on the right track, but don't just sit there or you'll be run over.

69. If you want to be the picture of health, make sure you ahve a happy frame of mind.

70. Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
Longfellow

71. We are quick enough in preceiving and weighing what we bear from others, but we think little of what others bear from us.
Thomas A. Kempis

72. We believe that our words- which we assime to express our principles- represent us more truly even than our actions, but to outsiders, ti is the actions that are more eloquent than words.
Henry Steele Commager

73. Our conduct is influenced not by our experience, but by our expectations.
George Bernard Shaw

74. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

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75. I am a great believer in luck, and I find ther harder that I work, the more I have of it.

76. We have to condemn pubically the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep withing us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoerrs, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are therby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath enerations.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

77. Creativeness means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway of life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world. For opening the door to your life, in the end, is more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe.

78. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the bortherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should not do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

79. Last night I lay on my bed and stared at the stars above and wondered, "Where the hell did the roof go?"

80. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

81. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

82. Three rules of work
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity
2. From discord, find harmony
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

83. Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
Confucius

84. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luthur King, Jr.

85. There is no right way to do wrong.

86. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Goethe

87. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

88. Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin

89. Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Galbraith's Law

90. If you consult enough experts, you can confirm any opinion.

91. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Nietzshe

92. If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell them something for their own good.
Kim Hubbard

93. As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott

94. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one in its place.
Harriett Beecher Stowe

95. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

96. Would you live with ease, do whay you ought, and not what you please.
Benjamin Franklin

97. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

98. You can't hear it, but the universe is laughing at you behind your back.

99. The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything - and it works.
William Strong

100. My grandfather once tole me that there are two kinds of poeple; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
Indira Gandhi


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