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On Motivation 

  You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath
  them, but by building a fire within. 

  Bob Nelson
  Writer

There was once a dog who boasted to his canine friends that he could
run faster than anyone. One day he chased a rabbit and failed to catch
it. His friends ridiculed him. 

"All right," said the dog, "I did not make good on my boast. But remember,
the rabbit was running for his life and I was only running for my dinner." 

Incentive is all-important in motivation. 


On Laughter 

 Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over but showing it
 principally in one spot. 

 Josh Billings (1818-1885)
 Humorist
          
A book issued by the Army years ago gave all manner of advice to
noncommissioned officers. It even tells how to make men who have
quarreled friends again. The men are put to washing the same window,
one outside, the other inside. 

Looking at each other, they soon have to laugh and all is forgotten. It
works; I have tried it. 

Ludwig Bemelmans


On Future 

  Some people make the future; most wait for the future to make
  them. 

    There is a choice you have to make,
    In everything you do.
    And you must always keep in mind,
    The choice you make, makes you.


On Men 

  The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is 
  that I no longer belong to it. 

  Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
  Physicist
          
           The Seven Ages of Man Are:
              spills
                 drills
                    thrills
                       bills
                          ills
                             pills
                                & wills.

           Richard Needham
           Writer



On Courage

 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing
 heart. 

 Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)
 Orator
   
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of
action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier
needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson


On Truth

  If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 

  Mark Twain (1835-1910)
  Writer and humorist

We must love them both - those whose opinions we share and those
whose opinions we reject. For both have labored in the search for truth,
and both have helped us in the finding of it. 

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Theologian and philosopher