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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo. "It is one
of the innumerable absurdities of pride, that we are Once I had no shoes
and I grumbled. We think sometimes when things happen that don't go the right way, we think that when someone dear to us dies or we lose an election or when we suffer a defeat, that all has ended. Not true. It's only a beginning, always. Because the greatness comes not when things go always good for you, but the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you've been in the deepest valley, that you'll ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. Richard Nixon. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Ken S. Keyes Jr. It's nice to be
thought of as important, but it is more important to be thought of as
nice. Irish Saying. The man who removes
a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Money wasn't that important. Money doesn't help you sleep. Money doesn't help your mother be well, money doesn't make your brother stay in his studies, money don't help an argument when nobody knows what they're arguing about. Money don't help nothing. Money is only good when you've got something else to do with it. A man can lose everything, family, all your dreams and still have a pocket of money. George Foreman. It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker. Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. Willis Whitney. It is better to have wise people reprimand you than to have stupid people sing your praises. The Bible, Ecclesiates 7:5. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. Alan Ashley-Pitt. One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future. Anonymous. I am never a failure until I begin blaming others. Anonymous. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. Len Wein. The race is not for the swift but for those who endure to the end. A.D. Arbouine. I believe that the endless striving to do good and avoid evil is the purpose of human existence. Through that comes progress. Tony Blair. Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets. Clark Moustakas. Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become. Anonymous. No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. W.A. Nance. Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. Isak Dinesen. People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. J. Michael Straczynski. Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves. Dale Carnegie. You do not have to be rich to be generous. If he has the spirit of true generosity, a pauper can give like a prince. Corrine V. Wells. Anyone who doesn't respect their identity is a bit of a sad person. Huw Edwards. It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but he who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great devotion; who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato. The only one thing I can change is myself, but sometimes that makes all of the difference. Anonymous. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. Dale Turner. When your back is to the wall remember that a cornered animal is the most dangerous. Jock Ewing, "Dallas". Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. Tao Te Ching. A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. Proverbs 27:19. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. Mark Twain. The greatest failure is the failure to try. William A. Ward. It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell. Don't put your mistakes behind you; remember them, use them and learn from them. Make your mistakes a positive experience and by doing so you grow to become better. Mark Wayne. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young. There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people. Jan Ashford. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London. He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty. Proverbs 210:19. Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert F. Kennedy. Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. Jorge Luis Borges. You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "You Can't Always Get What You Want". He who loses wealth loses much, who loses a friend loses more, who loses his spirit loses all. Spanish Proverb. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis. I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. Agatha Christie. The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. John Ruskin. When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell. It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not. Albert Brooks. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough. Frank Crane. A hero doesn't have to save a busload of kids from certain disaster or score the winning point in the big game. A hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to, anyone who cheers you on, makes you better than you were before just as they made themselves better than they were before. Nike advertisement. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. The Bible, Ecclesiates 7:9. Every time you get knocked down you get up stronger. Marlon Brando. We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda. 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 ppear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments. Katie Gill. We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life. James Van Pragh. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. James Dean. Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the colour of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about. Nike ad. I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again. William Penn. One of the most beautiful entities in life is letting the truth be known, for it reaches this intangible height of freedom that a lie can never touch. Khalil Murrell. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. George Burns. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. Alphonse Karr. It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result. Mahatma Gandhi. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia. Character cannot be developed in piece and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision be cleared, ambition insured and success achieved. Helen Keller. It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", J.K. Rowling. If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them. Anonymous. "Give me chastity
and continence, but not yet. " "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. " - Galileo Galilei "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. " -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. " -- Emile Zola (1840-1902) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. " --Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " --Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back') "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. " --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." -- Jimmy Durante "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -- Isaac Asimov "I have often
regretted my speech, never my silence." "Wise men make
proverbs, but fools repeat them. " "Forgive your
enemies, but never forget their names. " "Behind every
great fortune there is a crime. " "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. " -- General George Patton (1885-1945) "I have never
let my schooling interfere with my education. " "Copy from
one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. " "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. " -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) "God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." -- Robin Williams "We are not
retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." Fate exists but
it can only take you so far, I do not believe I could learn to like her except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight. -- Mark Twain in Eruption Girls were made to please the eye and trouble the mind. - Mat Cauthon Don't let your wins
get to your head, don't let your losses get to your heart. - Anonymous |
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