QUOTES I

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying."

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all." - Jean De La Bruy�re

"The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy."

"I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer." -- Albran

"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details." -- Heine

"Trust in God, but row away from the rocks." -- Greek Proverb

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"There will always be a sacrifice required for results. It is the early bird who gives up sleeping in to get the worm. To get what you want, right on the heels of deciding what that is, you must also decide what you will do in exchange for the results you desire." - James R. Ball

"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut." - Maxwell Maltz

"To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living." - Jean de La Fontaine

"Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk." - Shirley Hufstedler

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him." - Abraham Lincoln

"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life." - Johnson

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson

"Speech is silvern, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine." - German Proverb

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules." - George Bernard Shaw

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to." - Mark Twain

"Life is the childhood of our immortality." - Goethe

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing." - John Andrew Holmes

"We worry about what our child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today." - Stacia Tauscher

"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 dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one." - Chinese Proverb

"Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself." - Fydor Dostoyevsky.

"Give yourself to God. Know that you will serve him from wherever he places you, and you will have no worries, for all are in God's hands."

"Nothing is ours, but all is God's. Never question the way God takes something he has given you back, but accept that it was never yours - just lent to you by him."

"Good judgment comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgment."

"The breath of divine knowledge is the bellows of divine love, and the flame of divine love is the perfection of divine knowledge." - Quarles

"The act of contemplation creates the thing contemplated." - Isaac D'Israeli

"Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself." - Sivananda

"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know." - Shakespeare

"As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose." - Bhagavad Gita

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - William James

"Love is but another name for that inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity." - William Simms

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Addison

"Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear." - Upanishads

"To talk goodness is not good... Only to do it is." - Chinese Proverb

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Elbert Hubbard

"A fool always finds some greater fool to admire him." - Nicholas Boileau

"Men do not fail; they give up trying." - Elihu Root

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable." -Denis Waitley

"To be listened to is...a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. .... Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts." -Robert C. Murphy

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are." -John Burroughs

"Grief has a quality of healing in it that is very deep because we are forced to a depth of emotion that is usually below the threshold of our awareness." -Stephen Levine

"One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love." -Graham Greene

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." --Chinese Proverb

"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -- Unknown

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." --Unknown

"A truly great person is the one who gives you a chance." -- Paul Duffy

"Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and on indifference to money; not caution but courage and a comtempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know." -- Natalia Ginzburg

"Courage is what it takes me to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." -- Unknown

"Developing a mind is important, but developing a conscience is the most precious gift parents can give their children." -- John Gray

"Don't fall before you're pushed." --English Proverb

"Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." -- Louisa May Alcott

"Heroes and winners aren't the same thing." -- Michael Kevin Farrel

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -- Unknown

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"I am only one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." --Hellen Keller

"I don't know they key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby

"I have learned that in order to bring about change, one must take the first step, or else it will not be done." -- Rosa Parks

"I never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain

"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius." -- Larry Leissner

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." -- Frederick Douglas

"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them." -- Mother Teresa

"In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend." -- Unknown

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching." -- Jim Stovall

"It doesn't matter who you are, Or what you have, or do. If you give your very best, the best returns to you."--Starky

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -- Mother Teresa

"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." --Walter Savage Landor

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." -- Kurt Vonnegut

"Life is a free circus, all you have to do is pay attention." -- Bill Copeland

"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded." -- Fulton

"Life's Moments - Live each moment of your life to its fullest. Always see Life's glass half filled with Love's finest. Enjoy each Moment as it blossoms deep, within you. Give Love to each soul you touch, so they will love you, too." - CC-Russ

"Little girl to smaller brother: "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." - From Readers Digest

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." -- Lorraine Hansberry

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing but the heart can change the heart." -- Carroll O'Connor

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within." --Maya Angelou

"Nothing lasts forever, not even troubles." -- Arnold H. Glasgow

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." -- Helen Keller

"One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members."-- Henry Van Dyke

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it." -- William Raspberry

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." -- G.B. Stern

"Single parenting is like taking a trip without a road map. We don't always know where we'll end up, but the best part is taking the time to enjoy the ride!" -- Anita

"Some kids do what you say. Some kids do what you say do not do. But all kids do what you do." --Unknown

"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." -- M. Grundler

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln

"The central question is not do we know what to do, but rather will we do what we know." -- Gary Bunch

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." --Henri L. Bergson

"The great advantage of telling the truth is that one's so much more likely to sound convincing." -- Susan Howatch

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now." -- Bill Cosby

"The soul would have no rainbow had the eye no tear." --Unknown

"The stories that you tell about your past shape your future." --Eric Ransdell

"Things do not change. We change." -- Henry Thoreau

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have." -- Unknown

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it." --William Osler

"We love because it is the only true adventure." -- Nikki Giovanni

"What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end." --Warren Buffett

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it."-- Theodore Roosevelt

"With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." -- Jim Loehr

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Unknown

"Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits." -- Ana Quindlen

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." -- Carl Jung

"Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests." -- Charles Lindbergh

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