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Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.' - Thomas J. Watson 'Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.' - William Jennings Bryant 'Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities' - Sue Ebaugh Où serait la mérite, si les héros n'avaient jamais peur ? English Translation - 'Why would there be merit, if heroes were never afraid?' - Alphonse Daudet (Thanks to Lee in Sierra Madre for this submission) 'Well done is better than well said.' - Ben Franklin 'Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.' - Norman Vincent Peale 'It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.' - Seneca 'Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.' - Zig Ziglar 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts.' - William Shakespeare 'We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.' - Lee Iacocca 'Instead of waiting for things to get better, make a list of all the things you can do until your situation improves.' - Danielle Kennedy 'You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.' - J.P. Morgan 'Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.' - Henry Clay 'To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.' - Paul Robeson 'Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right.' - Henry Ford 'All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.' - T. E. Lawrence 'Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.' - Harvey Fierstein 'What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.' - Zig Ziglar 'Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.' - Marcus Aurelius 'The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.' - Vince Lombardi 'Whatever reason you have for not being somebody, there's somebody who had that same problem and overcame it.' - Barbara Reynolds 'Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.' - Conrad Hilton 'Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now.' - Goethe 'Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.' - Henry Ford 'Reorganizing can be a wonderful method for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.' - Petronius Arbiter 'The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.' - Dale Carnegie 'The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.' - Norman Schwarzkopf
' Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.' - Ovid 'A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.' - Washington Irving 'Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.' - Horace "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." - Martin Van Buren "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas "Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever." - Samuel Smiles "Live out of your imagination, not your history." - Stephen Covey "Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got." - Andrew Young "What's a dollar? Honey, when you don't have one, it's everything!" - Unknown mother of child in Von's Pavilions, Monrovia "To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think -- spend some time time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears. If you laugh, think and cry, that's a heck of a day." - Jim Valvano "Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big." - George Carlin "Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard L. Evans "Far better it is to dare to do mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." - Linus Pauling “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo "We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life." - Jay House "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble." - George Washington "It seems rather incongruous that in a society of supersophisticated communication we often suffer from a shortage of listeners." - Erma Bombeck "The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you." - Gloria Vanderbilt "Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." - Nicolaus Copernicas "Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H.L. Hunt "The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time." - John McEnroe "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform." - Susan B. Anthony "Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own." - Chuck Yeager "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion." - Abraham Lincoln "I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer." - Brendan Behan "A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." - Lana Turner "Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!" - Charles Dickens "There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder." - Ronald Reagan "If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain." - Adlai Stevenson "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared." - Dan Quayle "Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character." - Horace Greeley "A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. - Boris Yeltsin "The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - Talullah Bankhead "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." - Seneca "We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents." - Eric Hoffer "We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." -- Woodrow T. Wilson "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." - Douglas MacArthur "The value of an idea lies in the using of it." - Thomas Edison "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill "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." - Aldous Huxley "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather become frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci "In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true." - Honore de Balzac "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Ariel Durant "A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty." - Nadia Boulanger "Never let your head hang down. Never give up and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines." - Satchel Paige "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!" And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every tenement and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes "Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent." - Nolan Ryan "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky "It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mahatma Gandhi "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable." - Christopher Reeve "Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein "Keep cool; anger is not an argument." - Daniel Webster "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." - Henry David Thoreau "Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there." - Cullen Hightower "Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - John Wooden "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." - Abraham Lincoln "I've drank to your health in taverns, I've drank to your health in my home, I've drank to your health so damn many times, I believe I've ruined my own!" - Traditional Toast "May you never lie, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with all of us because we love you." - Traditional Toast "And there were shepherds in the same district living in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood by them and the glory of God shone round about them, and they feared exceedingly. And the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all the people; for today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign to you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger." And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth peace among men of good will." -- Luke 2:8 thru 14 "Now it came to pass in those days that a decree went forth from Caesar Augustus that a census of the whole world should be taken......And Joseph also went from Galilee out of the town of Nazareth into Judea to the town of David, which is called Bethlehem....to register, together with Mary his espoused wife, who was with child. And it came to pass while they were there, that the days for her to be delivered were fulfilled. And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them at the inn." -- Luke 2:1 thru 7 "Long lay the world, in sin and error pining, till he appeared, and the soul felt his worth." -- Traditional hymn "May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love." -- Ada V. Hendricks "Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" - Charles Dickens "Modern man thinks he loses something, time, when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains -- except kill it." - Erich Fromm "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?" - Marcel Marceau "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett "I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck." - Henry Ward Beecher "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly." - Thomas Paine "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire." - Fred Shero "Failure is only opportunity to begin again." - Henry Ford "The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin "Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon." - Denis Waitley "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Norman Schwarzkopf "Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits." - Thomas Edison "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." - Sandra Carey "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle
"Education is our passport to
the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare
for "The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard "Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." -- Saint Francis of Assisi "In a just cause the weak o'ercome the strong." - Sophocles "The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon." - Charles Buxton "Why is it, 'A penny for your thoughts,' but, you have to 'put your two cents' in? Somebody's making a penny." - Steven Wright "I bought a self-learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish." - Steven Wright "To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man." - Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand "The world is divided into people who do things -- and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition. - Dwight Whitney Morrow "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." - Thomas Edison "Don't be afraid to take big steps. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." - Robert Frost "Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers "The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher "Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true." - Richard Bach "It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay right up there. Hunters would be all confused." - Steven Wright "Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo!" - Steven Wright "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin "A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." - Sir Edmund Hillary "Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose." - Cullen Hightower "Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film." - Steven Wright "Can atheists get insurance for acts of God?" - Steven Wright "Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order." - Ezra Taft Benson "Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." - Josh Billings "Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul." - Charles Buxton "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." - Red Auerbach "To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them." - Charles Buxton "Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson "All publicity is good, except an obituary notice." - Brendan Behan "The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." - Richard Bach "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen "What happens if you get scared half to death twice?" - Steven Wright "I believe five out of four people have trouble with fractions." - Steven Wright "A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67." - Norman Augustine
"I have lived in this world just long enough to
look carefully the second time into "No man pleases by silence; many I please by speaking briefly." - Ausonius "Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter." - Max Beerbohm "With virtue you can't be entirely poor; without virtue you can't really be rich." - Chinese Proverb "Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." - Henry Ward Beecher "And, in the end, it's not the years in your life that counts, it's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln "If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?" - Steven Wright "The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning." - Gail Godwin "If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair -- Let's Rock! Everybody Let's Rock!! - Elvis Presley "The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it." - Damon Runyon "Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - Bill Eardley "If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?" - Stephen Wright "Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom." - Queen Elizabeth II "Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way." - Barbara Bush "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us." - James Truslow Adams "If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius." - Joseph Addison "We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon." - Konrad Adenauer "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." - Franklin P. Adams "Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others...he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." - Robert F. Kennedy "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein "Choose always the way that seems the best however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." - Pythagoras "A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station..... - Steven Wright "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our successes or failure." - Norman Vincent Peale "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." - Mark Twain "God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win--tails, you lose." - Anonymous "All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand." - Steven Wright "An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery." - Walter Winchell "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Ariel Durant "I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out" - Steven Wright "Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you." - Leonardo da Vinci "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." - Buddha "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan "To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up." - Ralph Bunche "I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes." - Steven Wright "To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions." - Ben Franklin 7/04/00 - "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." - Thomas Jefferson and Friends - For a complete transcript of the Declaration of Independence, click here
"I believe in the United States
of America as a Government of the people by the people, for
the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent
of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign
Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one
and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom,
equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots
sacrificed their lives and "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson "True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else." - Clarence Darrow "I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies". So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said "compact cars"". - Steven Wright "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." - Robert Heilein "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter "You cannot get ahead while you are getting even." - Dick Armey "Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice." - Lyman Abbott "I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me." - Noel Coward
"A graduation ceremony is an
event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students "I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically." - Steven Wright "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Dwight David Eisenhower "We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee." - Marian Wright Edelman "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." - John Wayne "I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work." - Don Shula 6/18/00 (Father's Day) - "My dad has always taught me these words: care and share". - Tiger Woods "One does not plan and then try to make circumstances fit the plans. One tries to make plans fit the circumstances." - George S. Patton "I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died." - Steven Wright "Courage is being scared to death -- and saddling up anyway." - John Wayne "Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out." - Moms Mabley "There is only one way in the world to be distinguished. Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire." - Bliss Carman "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman "To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself." - Ruth Gordon Like what you do, if you don't, do something else." - Paul Harvey "I spilled spot remover on my dog - He's gone now." - Steven Wright There's a six-word formula for success: Think things through, then follow through." - Edward Rickenbacker "A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved." - Buckminster Fuller "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again---and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." - Mark Twain "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." - Larry Bird "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." - Andrew Carnegie "I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance." - H L Mencken "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before." - Steven Wright "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Douglas Adams "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein Memorial Day, 5/29/00 - The thought for today was a photo of a plaque which is part of the Weeping Wall Memorial in Sierra Madre. The plaque states: "Dedicated to all the armed forces veterans of Sierra Madre...Who served our country in peace and war...who helped to preserve peace and freedom for our city, country and the world. The wall weeps....not with sorrow, but with pride. God bless them all. "I cannot believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war and no one will win the next." - Eleanor Roosevelt "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." - Benjamin Franklin "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you've got it you might be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." - Garrison Keillor "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough." - Frank Crane "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert Kennedy "As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task." - Diogenes "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." - Herb Caen "What is worse than having no sight, is being able to see but having no vision." - Helen Keller "Anger is only one letter short of danger." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?" - Marcel Marceau "You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old." - George Burns "Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz "Thanks Mom, and happy Mother's Day. I love you very much, and I know there's a sainthood waiting for you. But please, just let it wait." - Me "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies." - Groucho Marx " You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." - Chuck Yeager "The main thing is to make history, not to write it." - Otto von Bismarck "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." - Plato "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles." - Red Skelton
"Sometimes the most urgent and
vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest."
- "Si, uno mas. Y tambien una mas cerveza, por favor." - Attributed to Jose Cuervo, Happy Cinco de Mayo! "Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius "It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line." - Ashleigh Brilliant "Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths." - Goethe "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington "Write a wise saying and your name will live on forever." - Author unknown "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - Thomas Jefferson "Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn "If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere." - Zig Zigler "To steal from one person is theft. To steal from many is taxation." - Daiell's Law (a take-off on Felson's Law) "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot "I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying." - Tom Hopkins "What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens." - Lewis L. Dunnington "He who thinks he has no faults, has one." - Author unknown "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." - Buckminster Fuller "For every X on the ballot there is a why." - Author unknown "A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman, of the next generation." - James Freeman Clarke "Enlightened loyalty requires that each citizen take the trouble to learn about, to discuss, to think through, the crucial issues of our time." - Lyndon Johnson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok, President, Harvard University "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." - Henry Ford "Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge "Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford "The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." - Joe Girard "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein "If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are." - Montesquieu "Don't find a fault. Find a remedy." - Henry Ford "Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and all good things will be yours." - Swedish Proverb "Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably." - Walt Disney "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie "Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a man has of encouragement and sympathy and understanding."- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." - Nathaniel Hawthorne "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Law "One of the hardest things to teach our children about money matters is that it does." - William Randolph Hearst "I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes "The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient art of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions." - Dwight D. Eisenhower "Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right." - Walt Disney "If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein The Next Several Quotes Are Traditional Irish Blessings and/or Toasts "May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you, and heaven accept you." May you live as long as you want, and never want as long as you live. May you always have work for your hands to do. May your pockets hold always a coin or two. May the sun shine bright on your windowpane. May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you. May God be with you and bless you, may you see your children's children, may you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, may you know nothing but happiness from this day forward, and may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. Here's to you and yours, and to mine and ours, and if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours as mine and ours have done for you and yours! May your glass be ever full, may the roof over your head be always strong, and may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead. May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, and rains fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of His hand. - "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one - Benjamin Franklin "It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson "Teach your child to hold his tongue, he'll learn fast enough to speak." - Benjamin Franklin "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare
"Courage is the first of human
qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the
others." - "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." - John Wooden "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." - Henry Ford "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." - Linus Pauling "Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there." - Norman Vincent Peale "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them" - Henry David Thoreau "The person who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein |
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