PVVC Quotes

Famous Quotes "Winning isn't everything. Wanting to win is."   Catfish Hunter "It's always too early to quit."-Norman Vincent Peale "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."   Mark Twain "Fear less, Hope more; Eat less, Chew more; Whine less, Breathe more; Talk less, Say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours."   Swedish Proverb "When one door closes, another opens.  But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us." ~ Alexander Graham Bell "Well done is better than well said."   Ben Franklin "When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt "God grant me the serenity to accept the people I can not change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."    Anonymous "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."-Reinhold Niebuhr "What would you be if you weren't afraid?"   Dr. Spenser Johnson "The harder you work, the luckier you get."    McAlexander "The only thing more painful than learning from experience, is not learning from experience." Archibald McLeish "You don't get in life what you want, you get in life what you are."    Les Brown "There are no short cuts to any place worth going."   Beverly Sills "What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve." - Napoleon Hill "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Gandhi "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals." -- Henry Ford "If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded."- Unknown "You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?"-George Bernard Shaw "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure ... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."--- Theodore Roosevelt "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."-Victor Hugo "Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." - Cadet maxim, U.S. Military Academy, West Point "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."- Harry Truman "For all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. "--- John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, 'Maud Muller'Profit "To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends,  to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to have succeeded!"- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.  Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts."  -Calvin Coolidge "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." George Washington Carver: