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Quotes
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
- Bruce Lee
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do.
-Benjamin Franklin
Learn as if you will live forever, live as if you will die tomorrow. - Anon
Regret is an appalling waste of time: you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
-Katherine Mansfield
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-Plato
Dreams never hurt anybody if he keeps working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as he can.
-Frank W. Woolworth
We are not all capable of everything.
-Virgil
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in though. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
-Victor Hugo 1862
Who begins too much accomplishes little
-German proverb
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
-H.L. Hunt
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-Carl Jung
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-Duke Ellington
If you build your castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
When we see a man of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
-Confusious
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-Albert Einstein
Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff.
Rule #2: It's all small stuff.
-Dr. Michael Mantell
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: I used to be angry everyday, then every other day; next, every two, then every three days! And if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to God in thanksgiving.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; and to be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
-William Henry Channing 1810-1884
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
-Brian Adams
So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
-Francois Rabelais 1532
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
-Dr. Robert Schuller
This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
-Captain J.A. Hatfield
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside awakes.
-Carl Jung
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and huffy off as if nothing happened.
-Sir Winston Churchill
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
-Henry C. Link
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-Albert Einstein
We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led us to the present.
-Adelai Stevenson
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-FDR
It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you are not.
-Andre Gide
Most people read to kill time..but the wise men read to make time come alive.
-Dr. Paul Brunton
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with one step.
-Lao-Tzu
To acquire knowledge, one must study. To acquire wisdom, one must observe.
-Marilyn vos Savant
Common sense is not so common.
-Voltaire
Experience is a good teacher but she sends terrific bills.
-Minna Antrim
Nothing wilts faster than laurels rested upon.
-Mary Kay Ash
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
-Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you know your enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
What is unspoken remains most powerful.
-Jody Shields, The Fig Eater
Money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not an appetite, finery but not beauty, a house but not a home.
-Anonymous
You can never achieve perfection, but to strive for it you achieve excellence.
-Vince Lombardi
The important thing is not learning new facts but in discovering new ways of thinking about them.
-Sir William Bragg
Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"
-Robert Kennedy
Things do not change. We change.
-Henry David Thoreau
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
-Unknown
Freedom is the other side of the fences we put around ourselves.
-Unknown
If a man advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live a life which eh has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common dreams.
-Henry David Thoreau
The limits of tyrants are established by the endurance of those they oppress.
-Frederick Douglass
If you are thinking one year ahead, you plant rice. If you are thinking twenty years ahead, you plant trees. If you are thinking a hundred years ahead, you educate people.
-Chinese Proverb
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one...
-Mark Twain
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
-Marcus Aurelius
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
-John Rutledge
You cannot rely on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-Mark Twain
The world is larger than our views of it.
-Henry David Thoreau
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.
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour. In other words, we are the hero of our own story.
-Mary McCarthy
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you are really strangers.
-Mary Tyler Moore
I hope I desire more than I accomplish.
-Michaelangelo
To know what you prefer, rather than humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
-R.L. Stevenson
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to unchartered land, or opened up a new heaven to the human spirit.
-Helen Keller
Not all who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Love is an act of eternal forgiveness
St. Augustine
There is an abundant supply of good. Those who step into the flow will be met with the refreshing waters of new life.
Danyetta Najoli
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden
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