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"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 and fabulous?' Actually,
who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small
doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure 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. And as we let our
own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission
to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson and is an excerpt from her book, "A Return to Love." This quote is often erroneously attributed to Nelson Mandela. |
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"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are
the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important
than the events that occur." Vince Lombardi, Former coach
of the Green Bay Packers |
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"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had
learned in seven years." Mark Twain (1835-1910), [Samuel
Langhorne Clemens] American author, humorist |
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"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be
found to reflect their inner beliefs." James Lane Allen
(1849-1923), American-born writer, author |
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar,
but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar."
Robert Brault |
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"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking
who is for it or who is against it." Henry George |
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who
have the habit of making excuses." George Washington Carver
(1864-1943), American botanist, agricultural chemist, inventor,
educator |
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"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot,
are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." George Gordon
Noel Byron (1788-1824), [Lord Byron] English romantic poet |
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"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides.
It must bring sides together." Jesse Louis Jackson (b. 1941),
African-American civil rights leader, politician, Baptist minister |
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for
the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling
silence of the good people." Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968),
African-American reverend, civil rights leader |
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"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often
a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." Will
Durant |
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"Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs
have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It's
not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get,
and how free are they? It's not an endlessly expanding list of
rights -- the `right' to education, the `'right' to health care,
the `right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency.
Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery -- hay
and a barn for
human cattle. There's only one basic human right, the right to
do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic
human duty, the duty to take the consequences." P.J. O'Rourke,
American writer and humorist. |
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"There are only two truly infinite things, the universe
and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe." Albert
Einstein |
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Link to General George
S. Patton, Jr.'s speech to the 3rd Army on May 31st, 1944
(as seen in the George C. Scott movie "Patton"). |
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Link to Vince Lombardi's
speech to the Green Bay Packers on what it takes to be "Number
1." |
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Link to President
George Washington's Farewell address, 1796. |
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Link to President
Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugral Address and to the Gettysburg
Address. |
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Link to Robert Frost's "The
Road Not Taken." |
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried
in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy
is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy
is the 'worst' form of Government except all those others that
have been tried from time to time." Winston Churchill |
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"Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference
so long as it's the 'Marine' breed." LtGen Lewis B. "Chesty"
Puller |
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"Those who would give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin
Franklin, American statesman |
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"Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people
think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather
die than think." Thomas Edison, American inventor |
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"When Hitler came after the Jews, I was not a Jew, and I
did not say anything. When Hitler came after the Roman Catholics,
I was not a Roman Catholic, and I did not say anything. When
Hitler came after the trade unionists, I was not a trade unionist,
and I did not say anything. When Hitler came after me, there
was no one left to say anything."
Martin Niemoller after eight years in a concentration camp. |
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"Commerce with all nations, entangling alliances with none."
Thomas Jefferson |
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"If they get a hit, then I am throwing a one-hitter. If
they get a walk, it's my last walk. I deal with perfection to
the point that it's logical to conceive it. History is history,
the future is perfect." Orel Hershiser, major league pitcher |
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"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and of love." William Wordsworth |
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go
to the grave with the song still in them." Henry David Thoreau |
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"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions
were to become universal law." Kant |
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"Science without religion is lame; religion without science
is blind." Albert Einstein |
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"This year will go down in history. For the first time,
a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will
be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow
our lead into the future!" Adolf Hitler, April 15,1935 |
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The
decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which
thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who
has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is
more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature
and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself." John Stewart Mill |
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"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the
good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better
to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity
may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own
good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis, "God in the Dock" |
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"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've
made a difference to this world. Marines don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985 |
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"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to
speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
Ben Johnson (1573-1637) |
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"Far better it is to dare 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
or defeat." President Theodore Roosevelt |
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"I have not failed. I have merely found 10,000 ways that
won't work." Thomas A. Edison, American inventor |
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein, American inventor |
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"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just." Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia. |
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"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must
first create the universe." Carl Sagan |
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"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart;
and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no
brains." Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) (although I would
like to amend that quote to draw the threshold at the age of
27) |
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"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes
are so small." Henry Kissinger (1923-) � |
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"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written
all over it." Steven Wright, American Humorist |
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"The man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at
30 has wasted 20 years of his life." Muhammed Ali� |
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"The heart has its own reason which reason does not know."
Blaise Pascal, (1623-1662) |
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"But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs.
In the long run we are all dead." John Maynard Keynes, British
economist |
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