SOME GREAT WORDS BY SOME GREAT PEOPLE!
This page will contain quotes, poems and just some inspirational messages for all to enjoy. As we all know, we need these thoughts to ponder and inspriational messages to help guide us through our days.
SOME WORDS TO PONDER AND GO BY....
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." --Chinese Proverb
"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -- Unknown
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." --Unknown
"A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance." -- Paul Duffy
"Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and on indifference to money; not caution but courage and a comtempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know." -- Natalia Ginzburg
"Courage is what it takes me to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Unknown
"Developing a mind is important, but developing a conscience is the most precious gift parents can give their children." -- John Gray
"Don't fall before you're pushed." --English Proverb
"Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." -- Louisa May Alcott
"Heroes and winners aren't the same thing." -- Michael Kevin Farrel
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -- Unknown
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
"I am only one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." --Hellen Keller
"I don't know they key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby
"I have learned that in order to bring about change, one must take the first step, or else it will not be done." -- Rosa Parks
"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius." -- Larry Leissner
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." -- Frederick Douglas
"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them." -- Mother Teresa
"In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend." -- Unknown
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching." -- Jim Stovall
"It doesn't matter who you are, Or what you have, or do. If you give your very best, the best returns to you."--Starky
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -- Mother Teresa
"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." --Walter Savage Landor
"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." -- Kurt Vonnegut
"Life is a free circus, all you have to do is pay attention." -- Bill Copeland
"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded." -- Fulton
"Life's Moments - Live each moment of your life to its fullest. Always see Life's glass half filled with Love's finest. Enjoy each Moment as it blossoms deep, within you. Give Love to each soul you touch, so they will love you, too." - CC-Russ
"Little girl to smaller brother: "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." - From Readers Digest
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." -- Lorraine Hansberry
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"Nothing but the heart can change the heart." -- Carroll O'Connor
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within." --Maya Angelou
"Nothing lasts forever, not even troubles." -- Arnold H. Glasgow
"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." -- Helen Keller
"One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members."-- Holly's favorite quote by Henry Van Dyke
"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it." -- William Raspberry
"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." -- G.B. Stern
"Single parenting is like taking a trip without a road map. We don't always know where we'll end up, but the best part is taking the time to enjoy the ride!" -- Anita
"Some kids do what you say. Some kids do what you say do not do. But all kids do what you do." --Unknown
"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." -- M. Grundler
"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln
"The central question is not do we know what to do, but rather will we do what we know." -- Gary Bunch
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." --Henri L. Bergson
"The great advantage of telling the truth is that one's so much more likely to sound convincing." -- Susan Howatch
"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now." -- Bill Cosby
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eye no tear." --Unknown
"The stories that you tell about your past shape your future." --Eric Ransdell
"Things do not change. We change." -- Henry Thoreau
"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." -- Unknown
"Treat everyone as you would want to be treated - even if they don't treat you the same -- it makes you a better person and shows the love and care you have to offer." -- Me
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." --William Osler
"We love because it is the only true adventure." -- Nikki Giovanni
"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end." --Warren Buffett
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certianly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it."-- Theodore Roosevelt
"With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." -- Jim Loehr
"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Unknown
"Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits." -- Ana Quindlen
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -- Carl Jung
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