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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Quotables

  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings tunes without words and never stops at all. - Emily Dickinson
  • They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
  • Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own. - Honore de Balzac
  • It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw
  • I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. - Bill Cosby
  • We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch. - John F. Kennedy
  • I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. - GK Chesterton
  • Money often costs too much. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher
  • Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. - Plato
  • The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot
  • Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers
  • The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a magnificent world unto itself. - Henry Miller
  • We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon Johnson
  • I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott
  • Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required. - Winston Churchill
  • I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
  • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. - Rosalyn Carter
  • Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything they just cry over [it]. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. - Malcolm X
  • Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau
  • Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther King Jr.
  • With slight efforts, how can we obtain great results? It is foolish to even desire it. - Euripides
  • A sound mind in a sound bady is a short but full description of a happy state in this work. - John Locke
  • Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. - William Gladstone
  • Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. - Patricia Sampson
  •  Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong
  • Happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
  • The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
  • Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of! - Bejamin Franklin
  • One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remans a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb
  • We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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