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Quotes page: "…do it now. There may be a law against it tomorrow."
-- Laurence Peter "…the advantage of modern means of communication is they
enable you to worry about things in all of the world." - Laurence Peter "A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work."
-- John Lubbock "A hero is a man who does what he can." - Romain
Rolland "A well-spent day brings happy sleep." -- Leonardo da
Vinci "A winner never quits, and a quitter never wins." --
Anon. "A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of
fools." -- Thomas Fuller "A wise man turns chance into good fortune." -- Thomas
Fuller "A wise man will make more opportunities than he
finds." -- Francis Bacon "Adventure is worthwhile in itself." -- Amelia Earhart "After being waited on by another human being, tip until it
feels good. It will increase your personal self-worth." -- Brian Koslow "Aim at nothing and you'll succeed." -- Anon. "All we need to make us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about." --Charles Kingsley "An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why
must the pessimist always run to blow it out?" -- Michel de Saint-Pierre "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." --
George Washington "Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you
cannot find answers elsewhere." -- Brian Koslow "Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often
makes a better fighter of him." -- Louis L'Amour "Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an
impossible aim." -- Graham Greene "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can
do." -- John Wooden "Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you
work." -- Artur Rubenstein "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." -- Christine
Bovee "Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of
another." -- Condorcet "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." --
Will Rogers "Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot." -- Malay
proverb "Few rich men own their own property. The property owns
them." -- Robert G. Ingersoll "Flowers grow out of dark moments." -- Corita Kent "For fast-acting relief try slowing down." -- Lily
Tomlin "Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what
they taught you." -- Herbert Gasser "Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the
facts we believe we call theories." -- Felix Cohen "Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be
heading for a star." -- Willis Reed "Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make
them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them." -- Amy
Vanderbilt "Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think
it's hopeless." -- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz "Great and small suffer the same mishaps." -- Blaise
Pascal "Have no friends not equal to yourself." -- Confucius "He who fears something gives it power over him." --
Arab proverb "He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in
them." -- Lao-tzu "Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you
tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness
gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life." -- Joan
Lunden "Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one." -- the
Talmud "I believe the first test of a truly great man is
humility." -- John Ruskin "I don't know that there are any shortcuts to doing a good
job." -- Sandra Day O'Connor "I have found that if you love life, life will love you
back." -- Artur Rubenstein "I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of
claiming that I never made one." -- James Gordon Bennett "I never want to be anything more than I am." -- Louis
"Satchmo" Armstrong "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a
foolish thing." -- Anatole France "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is
pleased." -- Katharine Hepburn "If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow,
you're going to be cockeyed today." -- Anon. "If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst
role." -- Boy George "If you think it's going to rain, it will." -- Clint
Eastwood "In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait." -- Jose
Simon "It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you
have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the
plane." -- Charles Lindbergh "It's alright letting yourself go as long as you can let
yourself back." -- Mick Jagger "It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your
life." -- Sister Elizabeth Kenny "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his
answers." -- Voltaire "Life is not life unless you make mistakes." - Joan
Collins "Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about
having children. Life is the other way around." -- David Lodge "Many things are lost for want of asking." -- English
proverb "Misery is a communicable disease." -- Martha Grahame "Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight
in the eye." -- Helen Keller "Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed." -- Sydney Smith "Never have children, only grandchildren." -- Gore
Vidal "Never make negative comments or spread rumours about
anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours." -- Brian Koslow "Never raise your hand to your children – it leaves your
midsection unprotected." -- Robert Orben "None is so rich as to throw away a friend." -- Turkish
proverb "Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without
passion." -- George Hegel "Nothing is ours except time." -- Marcus Seneca "Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least
known." -- Michel de Montaigne "Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come
out as you first hoped." -- Lillian Hellman "One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the
water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other." -- Chinese
proverb "One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born
with potential." -- Maya Angelou "One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises
that one makes." --Nietzsche "One of my chief regrets during my years in the theatre is
that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me." -- John Barrymore "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed
in overalls, and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." -- Anon. "People die when curiosity goes." -- Graham Swift "Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy
days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine." -- William Feather "Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life.
Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are good enough at it,
the money will come." -- Greer Garson "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for
perfection is demoralizing." -- Dr. Harriet Braiker "Surround yourself with people who believe in you." --
Brian Koslow "Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to
yourself." -- John W. Raper "Systems die; instincts remain." -- Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr. "Take time every day to do something silly." -- Philipa
Walker "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." --
Napoleon "The biggest chance you can take is not taking a chance at
all." -- Glen Sather "The end of labour is to gain leisure." -- Aristotle "The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you
cannot do." -- Walter Bagehot "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to
share your riches, but to reveal to him his own." -- Benjamin Disraeli "The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes
nearest to perfection." -- Goethe "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never
does anything." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "The only way to stop smoking is to just stop – no ifs, ands
or butts." -- Edith Zittler "The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is
without a dream." -- Harry Kemp "The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that
feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding
yourself." -- Thomas Szasz. "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word:
excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." -- Pearl
Buck "The secret of patience . . . to do something else in the
meantime." -- Anon "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." --
Laurence J. Peter "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you
miserable." -- James A. Garfield "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be
lost." -- G. K. Chesterton "There is only one thing people like that is good for them;
a good night's sleep." -- Edgar Watson Howe "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain
of improving, and that's your own self." -- Aldous Huxley "To accomplish more, redirect your mental energy by
continuously reminding yourself of all the things you do right." -- Brian
Koslow "To change and to improve are two different things." --
German proverb "To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to
invite frustration." -- Anon. "To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in
it." -- Mother Teresa "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong
romance." -- Oscar Widle
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