1.Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
2.Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,
something to love, and something to hope for.
Addison
3.People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success
because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because
they are determined to.
George Allen
4.Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold
weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the
mind.
George Allen
5.The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn
in the
road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.
Anonymous
6.If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that
money can't buy.
Anonymous
7.Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical
use.
Anonymous
8.Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Anonymous
9.Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in
disapproving of others.
Anonymous
10.Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
Anonymous
11.Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst
of us.
Anonymous
12.Well done is better than well said.
Anonymous
13.Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
Anonymous
14.Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own
estimate.
Anonymous
15.In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany
16.I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
Aristotle
17.Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and
done
with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius
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1.You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach
2.You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with
twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your
life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can
take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you
receive.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett
3.Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings
4.The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and
breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
5.What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
6.Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
7.Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven
for?
Robert Browning
8.Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a
thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
9.Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
10.Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha
11.The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
12.Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't
wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises.
You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out - and
you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
George Burns
13.Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the
resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that
are never used.
Richard E. Byrd
1.When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart
and the senses, then it has missed its point.
Maria Callas
2.The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
3.Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you
believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find
happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
4.In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than
those which are measurable.
Alexis Carrel
5.Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for
comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument
for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
6.The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Cather
7.A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
8.The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
9.When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Winston Churchill
10.We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
11.We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
12.Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
13.Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at
what pains you.
Colette
14.Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which
every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which
nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life
of man.
C. C. Colton
15.He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C.C. Colton
16.Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
17.A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his
door.
Confucius
18.He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who
never asks a question remains a fool forever.
Tom J. Connelly
19.Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and
determination.
Calvin Coolidge
20.To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
21.I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem
to have.
Coleman Cox
22.There are no athiests in foxholes.
William T. Cummings
1.As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The
trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they
do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies
2.Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the
imagination.
John Dewey, from The Quest For Certainty
3.Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us
with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones,
must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli
4.Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
5.Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed
destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli
6.A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and
sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli
7.Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne
8.It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely
the
more important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1.Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is
production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must
be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as
well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Alva Edison
2.Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
3.Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and
soul can be a true master. For this reason mastry demands all of a
person.
Albert Einstein
4.The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
5.I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will
be fought with stones.
A. Einstein
6.The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is
as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
7.Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot
8.There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does
not find relief in music.
George Eliot
9.Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one
direction in which all space is open to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10.Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
11.Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
12.A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort
becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form
merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the
painter enters into his nature and can then d raw him at every attitude,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
13.What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to
what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
14.Life is a progress, and not a station.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
15.To fill the hour-that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
16.There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong
enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Emmanuel
17.It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and
remove all doubt.
Silvan Engel
18.No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus
19.Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson
20.Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides
1.You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harvey Firestone
2.A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Fontenelle
3.There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
4.You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
5.If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
6.Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
7.An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
8.Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin
9.Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
Benjamin Franklin
10.Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
11.Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and
what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller
12.He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Thomas Fuller
13.Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fuller
14.There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a
butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller
15.Dare to be naive.
Buckminster Fuller
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1.You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for
himself.
Galileo Galilei
2.The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are
treated.
Gandhi
3.Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some
service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service
deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will
make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Gandhi
4.Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the
5.Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
6.I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I
have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
7.To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he
has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
8.Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation
of
nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
9.The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at
the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran
10.Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe
11.Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Goethe
12.Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten,
but they may start a winning game.
Goethe
13.Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people.
Nor for others, easier.
Baltasar Gracian
14.There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and
lets the future in.
Grahm Greene, from The Power and the Glory