"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

   --- Henry Miller, American author, 1891-1980

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."

   --- Maori proverb

"To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working."

   --- Earl Warren, 14th Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974

"One of the things that I have learned over my career is that of the many times where I was 100% right about something, I have since learned that I was totally wrong."

   --- Jay Jason Bartlett, 20th Century Entrepreneur

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."

   --- Maya Angelou, American Poet

"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."

   --- Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."

   --- Pericles, Greek leader, (495-425 BC)

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   --- Unknown

"Great ideas originate in the muscles."

   --- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

   --- Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)

"Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. "

   --- Art Buchwald, American Journalist

"Nothing will work unless you do."

   --- Maya Angelou, American poet

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the Zero adjust on his bathroom scale."

   --- Arthur C. Clarke, English writer

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

   --- Confucius

""Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.""

   --- Dale Carnegie, American author, speaker and training guru (1888-1955)

"Humility is always proof of intelligence. "

   --- Rael

"People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress."

   --- Dale E. Turner

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming."

   --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal."

   --- Harold E. Stassen

"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values."

   --- Joshua L. Liebman

"I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."

   --- Linda Ellerbee

"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse."

   --- Confucius

"I will make love my greatest weapon and none on who I call can defend against its force... My love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest day."

   --- Og Mandino

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

   --- Nolan Bushnell

"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. "

   --- David Viscott

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. "

   --- Lao Tzu

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilites waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."

   --- Brian Tracy

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

   --- Helen Keller

"Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside."

   --- Brian Tracy

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

   --- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie."

   --- Ann Landers

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."

   --- Martha Grimes

"Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. "

   --- John McCain

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."

   --- Julia Sorel

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."

   --- Horace

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

   --- Mother Theresa

""If you don't have dreams, then you can't build on them. And it's chasing those dreams that gets you where you want to be." "

   --- Sarah Williams

"Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

   --- Marilyn vos Savant

"Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice. "

   --- Stanley Horowitz

"The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift."

   --- Pierre Corneille

"From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street."

   --- Mark Helprin

"Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do. But I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there."

   --- Venus Williams

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him."

   --- Epictetus

"There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail." "

   --- Jim Collins

"I've learned.... That everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile. "

   --- Andy Rooney

"Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation."

   --- William H. Sheldon

"Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece."

   --- Sherry Rothfield

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you'll never walk alone."

   --- Audrey Hepburn

"When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up. "

   --- J. Peterman

"Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman. "

   --- Peter Mayle

"You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work."

   --- Thomas Dreier

"Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect."

   --- Alain De Botton

"We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what I'm doing."

   --- Designer Ralph Lauren

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

   --- Marianne Williamson

"When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. "

   --- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world."

   --- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

   --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In work, the greatest satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever know."

   --- Kenneth Alsop

"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."

   --- Tom Morris

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. "

   --- Confucius

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

   --- Booker T. Washington

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "

   --- Samuel Butler

""Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming -WOW- !!! What a Ride!!!""

   --- Charlton Heston

"There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. "

   --- Washington Irving

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."

   --- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

   --- Aristotle

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

   --- William Morrow

"If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them."

   --- Francis Bacon

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."

   --- Nicholas Murray Butler

"A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught! "

   --- Thomas A. Kempis

"No one will improve your lot If you yourself do not. "

   --- Bertolt Brecht

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."

   --- John Ruskin

"The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber. "

   --- William Mather Lewis

"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."

   --- Ann Landers

"So, then, to every man his chance ## to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity ## to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him ## this, seeker, is the promise of America."

   --- Thomas Wolfe

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

   --- John Steinbeck

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

   --- Henry Ford

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."

   --- Lord Alfred Tennyson

"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."

   --- Harold B. Melchart

"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. "

   --- Aristotle

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become."

   --- Charles Du Bos

"The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist."

   --- J. Harold Wilkins

"Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. "

   --- David Seabury

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome. "

   --- Samuel Johnson

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

   --- Helen Keller

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

   --- Booker T. Washington

"I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort."

   --- Elizabeth T. King

"Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement."

   --- Thomas N. Carruther

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."

   --- Sigmund Freud

"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous."

   --- Margaret Fontey

"Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of - such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams."

   --- Arthur Holly Compton

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. "

   --- John Ruskin

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."

   --- William Hazlitt

"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work."

   --- Mother Teresa

"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

   --- Samuel Goldwyn

"You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims."

   --- Harriet Woods

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

   --- George Bernard Shaw

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

   --- Beverly Sills

"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery."

   --- Janet Erskine Stuart

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

   --- Helen Keller

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

   --- Bishop W.C. Magee

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions."

   --- William F. Scolavino

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."

   --- Leo C. Rosten

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent."

   --- Isaac Newton

"He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has."

   --- Epictetus

"Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them."

   --- Brendan Francis Behan

"Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment."

   --- Tom Morris

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

   --- R.G. Ingersoll

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

   --- Phillips Brooks

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

   --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action."

   --- Arnold Toynbee

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do."

   --- Helen Keller

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money."

   --- Bernard Meltzer

"Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."

   --- Oscar Wilde

"the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last."

   --- Charles Dickens

"The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world."

   --- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

   --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I would tell people to hold onto what is individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms."

   --- Harrison Ford

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."

   --- Helen Keller

"Not a day passes over this earth when men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows."

   --- Charles Reed

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

   --- Herbert Kaufman

"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. "

   --- Mencius

"You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""

   --- George Bernard Shaw

"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success."

   --- Alonzo Newton Benn

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

   --- Bette Davis

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible ## and achieve it, generation after generation."

   --- Pearl S. Buck

"The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it."

   --- Chinese proverb

"Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. "

   --- Bernard Williams

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection."

   --- Thomas Paine

"Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance."

   --- John C. Bogle

"Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way."

   --- Charles B. Newcomb

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

   --- J.B. Priestly

"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."

   --- Herodotus

"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense. "

   --- Thomas A. Edison

"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results."

   --- Sylvester Stallone

"The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall."

   --- Confucius

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

   --- Longfellow

"He who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

   --- Arabian Proverb

"Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many ## not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

   --- Charles Dickens

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

   --- Louisa May Alcott

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."

   --- Samuel Johnson

"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."

   --- Felix Adler

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

   --- Epictetus

"Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys them."

   --- Louis Pasteur

"He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made."

   --- Henry B. Wilson

"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm -that after they have lost all they are sure to lose in mixing with the world- enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions."

   --- Julius C. Hare

"To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about."

   --- James Clavell, in his novel 'Shogun'

"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

   --- Andre Gide

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

   --- George Bernard Shaw

"I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal."

   --- Anthony Trollope

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."

   --- George Bernard Shaw

"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."

   --- Phillips Brooks

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

   --- Alexander Pope

"The nearest way to glory ## a shortcut, as it were ## is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

   --- Socrates

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

   --- Albert Einstein

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

   --- Gandhi

"It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. "

   --- Adlai Stevenson

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. "

   --- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. "

   --- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. "

   --- Albert Schweitzer

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

   --- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. "

   --- Edward R. Murrow

"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive."

   --- Ogden Nash

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads."

   --- Albert Camus

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

   --- George Washington Carver

"Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age."

   --- Booth Tarkington

"Your success and happiness lie in you... Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

   --- Helen Keller

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate"

   --- John F. Kennedy

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

   --- Robert Frost

"Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them"

   --- Thomas Mann

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. "

   --- Vauvenargues

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

   --- Helen Keller

"Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing."

   --- Randolph S. Bourne

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."

   --- Arland Gilbert

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

   --- Zora Neale Hurston

"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."

   --- Mary Pickford

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

   --- Nelson Mandela

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

   --- Helen Keller

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

   --- Charlotte Bronte

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

   --- Mother Teresa

"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

   --- James Lane Allen

"Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means."

   --- Charles Dickens

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. "

   --- Confucius

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

   --- Aldous Huxley

"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. "

   --- Jean Anouilh

"Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination."

   --- Sir Frederick Treves

"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible."

   --- Dr. Frank Richards

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."

   --- Louisa May Alcott

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

   --- Lord Byron

"I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it. "

   --- William Hazlitt

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."

   --- Oscar Wilde

"The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."

   --- Marya Mannes

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."

   --- T. S. Eliot

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident."

   --- Charles Lamb

"A dream itself is but a shadow"

   --- Hamlet - William Shakespeare

"What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this."

   --- Epictetus (55-135 AD)

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."

   --- Mario Andretti

"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

   --- Howard W. Newton

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

   --- Sophia Loren

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."

   --- Oliver Goldsmith

"Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon. "

   --- Mary McCarthy

"To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences. "

   --- John Henry Patterson

"So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race."

   --- Ernest L. Woodward

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."

   --- Glenn Clark

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

   --- George Bernard Shaw

"The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. "

   --- James Lane Allen

"Patience is passion tamed."

   --- Lyman Abbott

"Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat. "

   --- Malcolm Forbes

"Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young."

   --- A.W. Pinero

"Progress is not created by contented people."

   --- Frank Tyger

"Right actions for the future, are the best apologies, for wrong ones in the past."

   --- Tyron Edwards

"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."

   --- Romain Gary

"We need dreams so that we know where we are suppose to take our lives."

   --- Jay Jason Bartlett

"There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good."

   --- Tillotson

"Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader ## who seems to think they have good qualities."

   --- John Richelsen

"No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval."

   --- Minot Simons

"Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth."

   --- Ruth McKenney

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

   --- Mary Lou Cook

"It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it."

   --- Lady Bird Johnson

"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."

   --- William Lyon Phelps

"The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time."

   --- W.J. Davison

"Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish."

   --- Jean de la Fontaine

"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."

   --- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from."

   --- William Faulkner (1897-1962)

"The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your waking hours."

   --- Beatrice Vincent

"What was hard to bear is sweet to remember."

   --- Portuguese proverb

"Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, and labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph. "

   --- Theodore Roosevelt (26th President of the U. S.)

"There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows. "

   --- John Farrar (Austrailian Composer)

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

   --- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Poet

"The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. "

   --- Duguet

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

   --- Hindu proverb

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

   --- John Andrew Holmes

"The life of man is like a game with dice; if you dont get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get. "

   --- Terence

"Our capacity to draw happiness from beautiful objects or material goods is dependent on our first satisfying our needs for understanding, for love, expression, and respect."

   --- Alain De Botton

"Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come so we could get at something that interested us. That's happiness."

   --- Orville Wright, co-inventor of the airplane

"Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior."

   --- H. A. Overstreet

"He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger."

   --- Japanese Proverb

"Take time to laugh - it is the music of the soul."

   --- Old English Prayer.

"Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it."

   --- Vaclav Havel

"No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience; he fled from no danger through cowardice."

   --- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."

   --- English proverb

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation  these are the great values of life. We cant prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives."

   --- Jesse Herman Holmes

"It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly."

   --- Mabel Newcomber

"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

   --- Elbert Hubbard

"Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation  these are the great values of life. We cant prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives. "

   --- Jesse Herman Holmes

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier."

   --- Thomas Robert Gaines

"Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."

   --- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them. "

   --- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. "

   --- Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"I praise loudly; I blame softly."

   --- Catherine the Second

"A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view. "

   --- Wilma Askinas

"Power is the ability to do good things for others."

   --- Brooke Astor

"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. "

   --- W.J. Slim

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "

   --- General George S. Patton

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