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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. -William Shakespeare
Destiny is not a 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
We must realize that no one prepares for a battle of which he is unaware, and no one wins a battle for which he doesn't prepare. -Randy Alcorn
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do. -Henry Ford
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to do your best will breed you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and contentment, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know. -Charles Kingsley
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another. -Odell Shepard
Endure and persist; this pain will turn to your good. -Ovid
Sometimes the Lord calms the storm; sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child.
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. -Richard L. Evans
If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record. -Anonymous
Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. -Al McGuire
Get out of here and leave me alone. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough already. -Last words of Karl Marx, allegedly
You can only know you have something worth living for if you have a cause worth dying for. -Rob Davis, SLT 2000
We spend money we dont have to buy things we dont want to impress people we dont like.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing. -Michael Prichard
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. -Benjamin Disraeli
You can't stop birds flying over your head but you can stop them nesting in your hair. -Martin Luther regarding improper thoughts
Presence is more than just being there. -Malcom S. Forbes
Talent is flame. Genius is fire. -Bern Williams
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. -Robert Frost
The great secret, Eliza, is not a question of good manners, or bad manners or nay particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls. The question is not whether I treat you rudely, but whether you have heard me treat anyone else better. -Henry Higgins, in Lerner and Loewe's "My Fair Lady", based on Shaw's Pygmalion
Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. -Rousseau
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. -David Hume
To do something purely because you are able to do it is a poor reason to do anything. -Melissa Sternhagen
You must look into people, as well as at them. -Lord Chesterfield
Don't condescend unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
-Brooks Atkinson
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. -Oliver Goldsmith
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. -William Penn
Make no little enemies - with whom you differ for some petty, insignificant, personal reason. Instead, I would urge your to cultivate 'mighty opposites' - which whom you will fight to the end over fundamental convictions. And that fight, I can assure you, will good for you and your opponent. - Thomas J. Watson
Things not to worry about: Don't worry about popular opinion... dolls... the past... the future... growing up... anybody getting ahead of you... triumph... failure unless it comes through your own fault... parents... boys... disappointments... pleasures... satisfactions. -F. Scott Fitzgerald, from a letter to his daughter, Francis, 1933
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. -Mary (Mrs. Ernest) Hemingway
There are people who end up on third base and think they hit a triple to get there. -Barry Switzer
Wealth is something you acquire so you can share it, not keep it. -LaDonna Harris
Praise should be directed at the performance and not the person.
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. -John Henry Cardinal Newman
There is no such thing as a non-working mother. -Hester Mundis
A woman is not born a woman. Nor does she become one when she marries a man, bears a child and does their dirty linen, not even when she joins a women's liberation movement. A woman becomes a woman when she becomes what God wants her to be. --from "Learning to Be a Woman"
Confidence is what you feel before you understand the problem. A lot of today's frustrations are caused by a surplus of simple answers coupled with a tremendous shortage of simple problems. -D. Gordon Rohman
Historians tell us about the past, and economists about the future. Only the present is confusing partly because the answers we insist on giving don't fit the questions the Times insist on asking. -D. Gordon Rohman
Suburbia: the place where all the trees are cut down and streets are named after them.
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow. -Lynn Margulis
So what's a tree worth? What's a bird worth? What's clean air worth? If we asked these questions, we'd get some startling answers - and if we had those answers we'd be careful to defend things that are so hard, so expensive, to replace. -David Brower
It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible. -Glenda Taylor
Some things are true whether you believe them or not. -City of Angels
It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -Krishnamurti
Only good change is progress. -Ben Cacace
On the whole, more people are cheated by believing nothing than by believing too much. -D. T. Barnum
If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels, it is a victory to him who believes. -Anonymous
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears that this is true. -James Branch Cabell
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. -Robert Copeland
To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
Drawing on my find command of the English language, I said nothing. -Robert Benchley
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. -Robert Byrne
Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. -Martin Friedman
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. -Dave Barry
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. -Pat Conroy
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