Saturday, May 03, 2014

Favorite Quotes (2002-2003)

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.  The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark alleys to traverse." - Keller

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.  Now put the foundations under them."-Thoreau

"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."

"Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."

"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."-Shaw

"The darkest hour has only 60 minutes."

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." - Emerson

"Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened."

"For the test of the heart is trouble and always comes with tears. And the smile that is worth the praises of the earth is the smile that shines through the tears."

"I never did give anybody hell.  I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

"Change has a considerable impact on the human mind.  To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things could get worse.  To the hopeful it is encouraging because things could get better.  To the confident, it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.  This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal hell on earth.  It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive.  Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes, unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments."

"Finish each day and be done with it.  You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept it.  Forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"Within each of us is a hidden store of energy.  Energy we can to release to compete in the marathon of life.  Within each of us is a hidden store of courage, courage to give us the strength to face any challenge.  Within each of us is a store of determination.  Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost."

"I must not fear.  Fear is the mind killer.  Fear the little death that bring total obliteration.  I will face my fear.  I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.  Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.  Only I will remain."

"It seems to me that people have vast potential.  Most people do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks.  Only most people don't.  They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."

"A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent."

"A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends.  For if not, they weren't true friends in the first place."

"He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose."

"Fear less, hope more.  Whine less, breathe more.  Talk less, say more.  Hate less, love more.  And all good things are yours."

"Integrity is telling myself the truth and honesty is telling the truth to other people."

"We have loved the starts too fondly to be fearful of the night."

"Pray you use your freedom and so far as you please, allow me mine."

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."

"Hell is other people."

"I hate the man who builds his name on ruins of another's fame."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"Among those I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"I any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents."

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

"The pleasantest things in life are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible."

"I have done my best.  That is about all of the philosophy of living one needs."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Emerson

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Let this be his rule: where wrong cannot be punished without greater wrong, there let him waive his rights, however just they may be."

"You will know forgiveness when you recall those who hurt and feel the power to wish them well."

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

"Forgiveness is not an emotion, its a decision."

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury."

"Sail where you heart desires and know when to drop anchor."

"Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me."

"Chance is always powerful.  Let your hook be always case; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."- Ovid

"Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together."- Ovid

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."- Ovid

"Nothing is stronger than habit."- Ovid

"To be loved, be loveable."-Ovid

"Time the devourer of all things."-Ovid

"We can learn even from our enemies."-Ovid

"It is easier to stay out than get out."- Twain

"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours."- Twain

"If you treat people right they will treat you right-ninety percent of the time."-Roosevelt

"It is common sense to take a method and try.  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something."- Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Roosevelt

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."- Senecca

"It is mot because things are difficult that we no not dare; it is because we do not dare they are difficult." - Senecca

"One should count each day a separate life." - Senecca

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."- Scott

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Billings

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."- Blackwell

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart-far more damaging to yourself than to them."-Blackwell

"The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."- Gandhi

"Courage is fear that has said its prayers."- Bernard

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."- Eschenbach

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more less a second chance."- Harrison Ford

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."- Peale

"The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly."- Harris

"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared too death."

"Many would be cowards if they had courage enough." - Fuller

"The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat."

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty-not knowing what comes next."

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

"Dare to be naïve." - Fuller

"The only person you need to prove anything to is yourself."

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world will hurt you, but its that one percent that loves you that makes your life worthwhile."

"The best prayer is what's in your heart.  Take what is there and offer it.  It doesn't matter if you are desperate or angry.  The Lord will hear you."

"You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."- Bradbury

"I am will to put myself though anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.  I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through baking barriers, an often painful process."

"It takes chances to make changes."

"Life should be enjoyable; too often we think its about achievement.  The truth is that making life enjoyable is an achievement in itself."

"And if in everything I find I do not find success, at least I will know that I tried my best."

I am somebody.  I am me and I need nobody to make me somebody."

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in  the way of saying you're sorry to the people you may have offended."

"We win many of life's rewards by leaning how to hang in there and work till the very end."

"Go the extra mile.  It's never crowded."

"The race isn't over until you cross the finish line.  You'll be surprised at how much can change in the last twenty strides."

"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing." -Lincoln

"A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself."

"You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow though."

"This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

"You always pass on the way to success."

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

"Courage is being scared too death but saddling up anyway."

"The thing always happens that you believe in, and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined."

"Courage is resistance to fear-mastery of fear-not absence of fear."

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.  There can be no courage unless you're scared."

"All of the animals except man know that the principal business life is to enjoy it."

"The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right."

"Truth is oven eclipsed but never extinguished."

"There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it."

"Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

"Honesty without compassion is brutality."

"Nothing can prevent you from learning the truth so much as that you already know it."

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated." -Roosevelt

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." - Freud

"Truth usually hurts in proportion to how much I have ignored or disbelieved it."

"I don't let my mouth say nothing my head can't stand."

"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."

"The true test of character is now much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going."

"For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge."

"The human spirit is strong than anything that happens to it."

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

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"It's always too early to quit."

"Accept everything about yourself.  I mean everything.  You are you and that is the beginning and the end; no apologies, no regrets."

"You'll never find yourself until you face the truth."

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary line and adding to one's liberty."

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

"He who conquers his wrath overcomes his greatest enemy."

"For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate to do."

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

"The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief."

"Constant complaints never get pity."

"Never make a defense or apology unless you be accused."

"Politeness costs nothing and gains everything."

"They who complain most are most to be complained of."

"The miracle is this-the more we share, the more we have."

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

"A man lives by believing something not by debating and arguing about many things."

"To know ourselves diseased is half our cure."

"I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

"The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape."

"Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect."

"Honesty needs no disguise not ornament, be plain."

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."

"Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it."

"No happy time is really gone if it leaves a special memory."

Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better bend a little than to break."

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

"Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence."

"Some friends only want to see the perfections in you.  Others need to see the imperfections and those are the true ones."

"It doesn't take strength to hold a grudge. It takes strength to let go of one."

In the end, only kindness matters."

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

"We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."

"A good friend is someone who will help you up when you are down and if they can't will lay down and listen."

"Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping."

"Never hesitate to hold out your hand.  Never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another."

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."

"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh."

"Ain't it kinda funny at the dark end of the road that someone lights the way with just a single ray of hope?"

"Truth is like the sun.  You can shut it out for a time but it ain't goin' away."

"Live your life so that if someone says be yourself, its good advice."

"Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability.  They also require attention and simple acts of kindness."

"It's a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe that lure him to evil ways."

"Anyone in the world can give up.  It's the easiest thing in the world to do.  But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength."

"Pain is just weakness leaving the body."

"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can."

"The average person thinks he isn't."

"The man who goes along can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

"Life or shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

"No matter how bad things get, remember this too will pass.  Believe it!"

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."

"Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one's definition of your life.  Define yourself."

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.  Only though experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved."

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

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is.  Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be."

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

"I dove into madness and learned how to swim."

"Serenity is taking a deep breath before taking the next big step."

"What is they duty? To accept the challenge of the passing day."

"Do what you have in hand, and God will show what thing is next to do."

"There is no duty we so much underestimate as the duty of being happy."

"People don't have sense enough to get out in the rain."

"Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil."

"Even God lends a hand to honest boldness."

"Fortune and love befriend the bold."









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