Meg's Quotes
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"How high I aim
How much I see
How far I reach
Depends on me.
If you can imagine it
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it
You can become it.
Stick to the fight
When you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst
That you musn't quit.
Think freely, feel deeply, reach for the sky. You have failed only
when you have failed to try. Welcome love, dream dreams, wish
upon a star, The best part of you is who you really are.
When you reach for your dreams, no matter what they be,
you grow from the reaching, you learn from the trying, and you win
from the doing."
-Laine Parsons
"We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough."
-Helen Keller
"If it should happen that your dreams be shattered, do not be afraid. Have
the courage to pick up the pieces and smile at the world. For dreams that
are easily shattered can be just as easily rebuilt."
-C. Jenson
"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
-Winston Churchill
"Life's battles don't always go to the stonger or faster man. But sooner, or
later, the man who win is the one who thinks he can."
-Col. Philpott
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
-Tom Feather
"Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing. The first said, 'I'm
cutting this stone into block.' The second replies, 'I'm on a team that's
building a cathedral.'"
-Anonymous
"When the weight of all my dreams is reasting heavy upon my head, and the
thoughtful works of help and hope have all been nicely said, But I'm still
wondering if I'll ever be the one I think I am... Then You gently remind me
All I ever have to be is what You've made me."
-Anonymous
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of
the shore."
-Andre' Gide
"Revolutions never go backward."
-William Seward
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."
-Unknown
"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to those have always been the two most
beautiful words in the English Language."
-Henry James
"Go the extra mile. It's never crowded."
-Executive Speechwriter Newsletter
"Come together, right now; over me."
-John Lennon
"It's not so easy to forget."
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
-Vince Lombardi
"All's well that ends well."
-William Shakespear
"It's the final outcome that matters, despite what happens on the way."
-William Shakespear
"It is so much easier to fight for one's principals than to live up to them."
-Alfred Adler
"Those who turn back never reach the summit."
-H. Jackson Brown
"The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift that's why its
called the present."
-Unknown
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge
to burn."
-Laurence J. Peter
"Life is a canvas-you fill in the picture."
-Croft M. Pentz
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
-Walt Disney
"Don't follow a path, go where there is none and leave a trail."
-Unknown
"The journey not the arrival matters."
-Montaigne
"If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks."
-Unknown
"Follow your dreams. You can achieve your goals."
-Eric Cartman
"The road to construction is almost always under construction."
-Unknown
"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
-Unknown
"It takes determination to get to the top, but more to remain there."
-Unknown
"It's lonesome at the top, but you do better."
-Penz
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly."
-Robert F. Kennedy
"The future is not a gift... it is an achievement."
-Sir Henry Lauder
"Learn from the past. Live in the present. Prepare for the future."
-Unknown
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-Unknown
"A man rarely succeeds at anything unless he has fun doing it."
-Croft Pentz
"Success is not an accident... it's hard earned."
-Croft M. Pentz
"Man is the only animal that blushes... or needs to."
-Mark Twain
"The person who goes the farthest is the one willling to do and dare."
-Unknown
"Success is a journey, not a destination."
-Unknown
"Life is a great big canvas, and your should throw all the paint on it you
can."
-Danny Kaye
"It is easy to sit up and take notice, what is difficult is getting up and
taking action."
-Al Bert
"You may forget but let me remind you this, someone in some future will
think of us."
-Sappho
"At the top of the mountain the view is GREAT!"
-Frank Zappa
"When we succeed, we have worked hard; when others succeed, they are lucky."
-Croft M. Pentz
"Like it or not, you will have to live somewhere, forever; so you better
learn how to live."
-Croft M. Pentz
"There is always room at the top."
-Daniel Webster
"He who does not sacrifice is not likely to succeed."
-Croft M. Pentz
"No one rises so high as the one who knows not where he is going."
-Oliver Cramwell
"Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of values."
-A.E.
"A successful man is the one who lays a foundation for his life with the
bricks others have thrown at him."
-Croft M. Pentz
"Success is getting up one more time than you fall down."
-Kierkegaard
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get."
-H. Jackson Brown
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today."
-James Dean
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-Unknown
"...So we could all be anything we dang well pleased."
-P.J. O'Rouke
"If you truely want to try to understand something, try to change it."
-Kurt Lewin
"A diamond is a piece of charcoal that never quits."
-Unknown
"Today, we lead... tomorrow, they follow."
-Unknown
"Hold fast to what the future brings, what seems like forever is only today."
-Unknown
"Those who strive to be above average soon are."
-HJB
"What's right is not always popular; what's popular is not always right."
-Unknown
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
-Charles Dickens
"One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of house you lived
in, or the car you drove, or the size of your bank account, but that you
were important to those you were around."
-Unknown
"Things turn out best for those who make the best out of the way things
turn out."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Some people are always grumbling that roses have thorns; I am thankful
that thorns have roses."
-Alphonse Karr
"The beginning is the most important part of work."
-Plato, The Republic
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain."
-Dolly Parton
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they
were the big things."
-Robert Brault
"All glory comes from daring to being."
-Eugene F. Ware
"Two men looked through the bars; one saw mud, the other saw stars."
-Croft M. Pentz
"He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good."
-Yidish proverb
"Old enough to know better, but still too young to care."
-Wade Hayes
"The problem with a rat race is even if you win, you're still a rat."
-Unknown
"Youth is not only a time of life; it's a state of mind."
-Pentz
"We are only young once. That's all society can stand."
-Bob Bowen
"The mask, given time, come to be the face itself."
-Marguerite Yourcenae
"In youth we learn, in age we understand."
-Ebner-Eschenbach
"The best preperation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
-HJB
"Life moves oretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while,
you could miss it."
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"If youth but knew, if old age could."
-Les Premices
"Growing up is full of big moments. Some you see coming a mile away, other's
you never see coming at all."
-Unknown
"Wisest is he who knows he does nto know everything."
-Old Eastern Saying
"It's easier to have the vigor of youth when you're old, than the wisdom
of age when you're young."
-Richard J. Needham
"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is a progress; working
together is a success."
-Unknown
"Sometimes success is just a matter of hanging on."
-Successories
"In the face of adversity; together we can surpass the wall."
-Llewellyn James Smith III
"Born on yesterday's losses, tomorrow's winners are here!"
-Unknown
"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
-Unknown
"Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets."
-Pentz
"Success is sweet, but it's secret is sweat."
-Pentz
"All for one and one for all."
-Alexandre Dumas
"United we stand, divided we fall."
-Aesop, The Four Oxen and the Lion
"Great works are preformed not by sight, but by perseverance."
-Sameuel Johnson
"You're never a loser until you quit trying."
-Mike Ditka
"Some goals are so worthy, it's glorious even to fail."
-Unknown
"Never, never, never, never give up."
-Winston Churchill
"What goes up, must come down."
-Newton
"A successful team beats with one heart."
-Successories
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
-Chinese proverb
"Dreams and dedication are a powerful comination."
-William Longgod
"Courage is grace under pressure."
-Unknown
"It's time to be a participant, instead of a spectator."
-Unknown
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toils, tears, and sweat."
-Winston Churchill
"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard
work you already did."
-Newt Gingrich
"The work praises the man."
-Irish proverb
"I feel a need for speed!"
-Maverick, Top Gun
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."
-Unknown
"They say man can survive six days without water, but not if he's on the
swim team."
-TYR
"We do not remember days, we remember moments."
-Unknown
"Your mind is the gateway to your heart."
-Unknown
"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly
stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."
-Pavarotti
"He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything."
-Arab proverb
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
-R.S.
"The chief merit of language is clarity, and we know that nothing detracts
so much from this as do unfamiliar terms."
-Galen
"Act like a man of thought."
-Bergson
"Just when we think we know something is correct, everything changes."
-Unknown
"Whatever your problems are in math, I assure you mine are greater."
-Einstein
"If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Unknown
"Who would have thought that people need to shop for almost every job in the
world?"
-Unknown
"A human being's first responisiblity is to shake hands with himself."
-Unknown
"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you."
-Dennis A. Peer
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves."
-Sir James Matthew Barrie
"...you gonna find that many of the truths that we cling to depend greatly
upon our own point of view."
-Return of the Jedi
"Art without life is a poor affair."
-Henry James
"Never meddle with play actors, for they're a favored race."
-Cervantes
"The heart of music can never be put down on paper."
-Pablo Casals, Conversations
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no bird
sang except the very best."
-Henry Van Dyke
"Proper wording in proper places make the true definition of style."
-Johnathan Swift
"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded."
-Virginia Woolf
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
-Confucious
"If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?"
-Hillel
"The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment
to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor."
-Vince Lombardi
"Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today."
-Martial
"Civilization is a process whose purpose is to combine single human
individuals, and after that, families, and then races, peoples and nations,
into one great unity, the unity of mankind."
-Sigmund Freud
"Those who say it can't be done are usually interuppted by those doing it."
-Anonymous
"Enthusiasm is contagious... start an epidemic."
-OASC
"I believe the children are the future. Teach them well and let them lead
the way."
-Whitney Houston
"When elephants fight it's the grass that suffers."
-African proverb
"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never
changes."
-Lewis Gizzard
"Perseverance prevails when all else fails."
-Anonymous
"You've existed on this planet roughly two decades. It's time to start
living on it."
-Unknown
"Greats spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
-Albert Einstein
"Success comes before work only in the dictonary."
-Anonymous
"Etiquette is what you are doing and saying when people are looking and
listening. What you are thinking is your business."
-Virginia Cary Hudson
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent."
-William Blake
"Pains of love be sweeter far
Then all other pleasures are."
-John Dryden
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
-Samuel Johnson
"Each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
-Oscar Wilde
"Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and
moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts,
the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen
because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy."
-Thomas Carlyle
"The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things
in it for us to be interested properly in any of them."
-G. K. Chesterton
"When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one
step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful
opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page."
-Eileen Caddy
"Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him."
-Rabindranath Tagore
"O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what
they do!"'
-Shakespeare
"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
-Emerson
"If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how."
-Nietzsche
"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."
-Sallust
"Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles
overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good
days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles
and constantly move forward."
-Bruce Jenner
"Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we
believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive
depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think.
What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines
what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. What
we take to be true is our reality."
-Gary Zukav
"Those who in quarrels interpose,
Must often wipe a bloody nose."
-John Gay
"For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does
not concern."
-Victor Hugo
" 'Tis but an hour since it was nine,
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot;
And thereby hangs a tale."
-Shakespeare, As You Like It
"When a felon's not engaged in his employment,
Or maturing his felonious little plans,
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest man's."
-W. S. Gilbert
"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"I go to school to youth to learn the future."
-Robert Frost
"He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses."
-Fables of Bidpai
"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over, he is superior."
-Francis Bacon
"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."
-Helen Keller
"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."
-Maxwell Maltz
"Nothing is impossible to a willing heart."
-John Heywood
"Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black."
-Danish proverb
"This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"When one loves somebody, everything is clear-- where to go, what to do-- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything."
-Maxim Gorky
"The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread."
-Emerson
"A strong passion for any object will ensure sucess, for the desire of the end will point out the means."
-William Hazlitt
"When a lady's erotic life is vexed
God knows what God is coming next."
-Ogden Nash
"God gives each his due at the time allotted."
-Euripides
"The laws of changeless justice bind
Oppressor and oppressed;
And, close as sin and suffering joined,
We march to fate abreast."
-John Greenleaf Whittier
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."
-Jean De La Bruyère
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."
-Chamfort
" I claim not to have controlled events but cofess plainly that events have controlled me"
-Abraham Lincoln
"Forever, and forever, farewell, All!
If we do meet again, why we shall smile;
If not, why then this parting was well made."
-Julius Caesar, V, i
"Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, Desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem."
-La Rochefoucauld
"Almost, I am tempted to say, I will believe in God, yes, in spite of the church and the ministers."
-Thomas Wolfe
"Goodness is easier to recognize than to define."
-W. H. Auden
"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
-Robert Brault
"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."
-Sophocles
"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."
-Sallust
"Once man understands that he is caught up in a blind energy, he transends it. There is light in the darkness."
-Michael Harrington
"I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how that can be?
I know not, but i feel the agony."
-Catullus
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
-Mae West
"It ain't no sin if ya crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."
-Mae West
"Take strands of speech, faded and broken; Tear them to pieces, word from word, Then take the ravelled shreds and dye them With meanings that were never heard."
-Hazel Hall
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Here's to the tears of friendship.
May they crystalize as they fall
and be worn as gems in memory ...
of those we love."
-- Cathy Barbagallo
"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start."
-Emerson
"Man is natures sole mistake!"
-W. S. Gilbert
"Beauty is ecstacy; it is simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it."
-W. Somerset Maugam
"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."
-Terence
"Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced."
-Edgar Allan Poe
"Not to go back is somewhat to advance,
And men must walk, at least, before they dance."
-Alexander Pope
"The Child is Father of the Man."
-William Wordsworth
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. 'Tis the sole remedy against misfortune, the very ventilation of the soul."
-Baltasar Gracián
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."
-La Rochefoucauld
"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise."
-William Blake
"The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing then those crowned with fruition."
-Oliver Goldsmith
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
-Dylan Thomas
"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget."
-The Eagles
"Women alone always order sole. It means something."
-John Dos Passos
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
-Mark Twain
"Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is law, the last perogative."
-John Dryden
"A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer."
-Herman Melville
"A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh."
-Sean O'Casey
"But the old fellows say we must read to gain knowledge, and gain knowledge to make us happy and admired. Mere Jargon ! Is there any such thing as happiness in this world? No."
-Thomas Jefferson
"Fate finds for every man
His share of misery."
-Euripides
"Nothin' on this earth is increasin'. There ain't as many fish, but there ain't as many of a lot of things, like pheasants or buffaloes. Even the brontosauruses that used to hang out on the front lawn got scarce after i quit drinkin'. The only thing there's more of is humans, and some of them ain't human."
-Frank Mundus
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
-Amy Carmichael
"Dear to the heart of a girl is her own beauty and charm."
-Ovid
"Freedom is a very great reality. But it means, above all things, freedom from lies."
-D. H. Lawrence
"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
-André Gide
"I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing."
-John Steinbeck
"That man travels the longest journey that undertakes it in search of a sincere friend."
-Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib
"It is impossible to love and be wise."
-Francis Bacon
"In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love."
-Dostoyevsky
"The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings."
-Aesop
"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
-Marcel Proust
"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life washes in the speachless real."
-Jacques Barzun
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight----it's the size of the fight in the dog."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."
-Balasar Gracian
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
-Thoreau
"It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."
-Virginia Wolfe
"There is nothing you can't do, if you set your mind to it. Anything is possible."
-Rick Hansen
"If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges."
-Pat Riley
"Women go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook."
-Henry Ward Beecher
"A man consists of the faith that is in him. Whatever his faith is, he is."
-Bhagavadgita
"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."
-Sir Thomas Browne
"Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have much more need to be brothers?"
-Charles Du Bos
"Men are born equal but they are also born different."
-Erich Fromm
"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."
-George Eliot
"Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity."
-Samuel Johnson
"It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful and gives birth to imagination."
-Thoreau
"Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her."
-William Wordsworth
"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
-Jean Giraudoux
"Man is God by his faculty for though."
-Lamartine
"Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart."
-Henri Frederic Amiel
"Men are but children of a larger growth."
-John Dryden
"The noblest work of God? Man. Who found it out? Man."
-Mark Twain
"Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it."
-Douglas Jerold
"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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