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Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams

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

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
George Allen

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.
Anonymous

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Anonymous

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Anonymous

Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Anonymous

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.
Anonymous

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
Anonymous

Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.
Anonymous

Well done is better than well said.
Anonymous

Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.
Anonymous

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.
Anonymous

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
Janos Arany

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self.
Aristotle

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Marcus Aurelius

You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard Bach

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Dr. Thomas Arnold Bennett

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.
Buddha

The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out - and you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
George Burns

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.
Maria Callas

The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
Alexis Carrel

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.
Willa Cather

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Winston Churchill

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
Colette

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
C. C. Colton

He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.
C.C. Colton

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
Confucius

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.
Tom J. Connelly

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination.
Calvin Coolidge

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.
Coleman Cox

There are no athiests in foxholes.
William T. Cummings

As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is.
Robertson Davies

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
John Dewey, from The Quest For Certainty

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Benjamin Disraeli

Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.
Benjamin Disraeli

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
John Donne

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastry demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein

I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.
A. Einstein

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

Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then d raw him at every attitude,
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a progress, and not a station.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To fill the hour-that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Emmanuel

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
Silvan Engel

No man is free who is not master of himself.
Epictetus

Do not mistake a child for his symptom.
Erik Erikson

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Euripides

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harvey Firestone

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Fontenelle

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford

You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.
Benjamin Franklin

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Thomas Fuller

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Thomas Fuller

Better hazard once than always be in fear.
Thomas Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

Dare to be naive.
Buckminster Fuller

You cannot teach a man anything.; you can only help him to find it for himself.
Galileo Galilei

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Gandhi

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
Kahlil Gibran

Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Goethe

Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Goethe

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Goethe

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier.
Baltasar Gracian

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Grahm Greene, from The Power and the Glory

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.
Omar Idn Al-Halif

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
Robert Half

Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest.
A.W. Hare

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
J.E. Hedges

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Wilhelm F. Hegel

Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
Elbert Hubbard

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one one extrordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Elbert Hubbard

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Thomas H. Huxley

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward-it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment-it is a result.
Robert Ingersoll

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
Joineriana

The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going.
David S. Jordan

The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Joseph Joubert

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'
Carl Jung

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.
Jean Kerr

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.
Rudyard Kipling

Great Opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
Sally Koch

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. LeGuin

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levent

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks.
Arthur D. Little

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russel Lowell

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock

Nobody's ever insulted to be invited.
Mrs. Leonard Lyons

There is no security on earth; there is only opportunity.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Karl Marx

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison S. Marden

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison S. Marden

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Rollo May

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as couses, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and music.
Agnes de Mille

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern

What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here.
Alfred A. Montapert

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
Alfred A. Montapert

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
Alfred A. Montapert

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
Howard W. Newton

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Austin O'Malley

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
Patrick Overton

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Ovid

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Blaise Pascal

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
Laurence J. Peter

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
James A. Pike

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.
Platenus

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.
Ronald Reagan

Children are entitled to their otherness, as anyone is; and when we reach them, as we sometimes do, it is generally on a point of sheer delight, to us so astonishing, but to them so natural.
Alastair Reid

The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.
La Rochefoucauld

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
Will Rogers

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
Will Rogers

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
Will Rogers

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew niether victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is 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

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar El-Sadat

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
St. Francis De Sales

This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw, from Man and Superman

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Carl Sandburg

Life is no brief candle to me. I is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world.
Bernie S. Siegel, MD

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk.
Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization - It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.
Charles Sorenson

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence.
Dr. Benjamin Spock

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
Charles H. Spurgeon

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is so much good in the worst of us, an so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift

Beware the fury of a patient man.
Publius Syrus

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
Publius Syrus

If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, 'There goes another day of my life, never to return,' you will become time conscious.
A. B. Zu Tavern

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William M. Thackeray

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away.
Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Henry David Thoreau

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Dr. Dale Turner

Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
Mark Twain

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
Mark Twain

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
Mark Twain

Progress is not created by contented people.
Frank Tyger

Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil

Each man is led by his own liking.
Virgil

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.
Vincent Voiture

Le sens commun n'est pas si commun
(Common sense is not so common)
Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
Voltaire

The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
The realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

Associate with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
Thomas J. Watson

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells

It matters not how many fish are in the sea . . . if you don't have any bait on your hook.
Dial West

Everything important has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead

Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
Bern Williams

Not doing more than average is what keeps the average down.
William Winans

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
M. Wren

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
John D. Wright

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