| Quotes to Live By "When you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail." Unknown "To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing." Janet Erskine Stuart "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone." Bill Cosby "Self-discipline as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone." Duke Ellington "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." Beverly Sills "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle "An activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better." Unknown "Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough." Billie Holiday "I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse." Duke Ellington "Reading is important--read between the lines. Don't swallow everything." Gwendolyn Brooks "We learn the ropes of life by untying its knots." Jean Toomer "I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven." Josephine Baker "A problem is a chance for you to do your best." Duke Ellington "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." Langston Hughes "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose." Billie Holiday "We are each other's harvest; we are each others' business; we are each other's magnitude and bond." Gwendolyn Brooks "Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it." Jean Toomer "I will permit no man to narrw and degrade my soul by making me hate him." Booker T. Washington Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. Robert Browning |