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What it comes down to is that anybody can win
with the best horse.
What makes you good is if you can take the
second or third-best
horse and win.
-- Vicky Aragon
In the fight between you and the world, back
the world.
-- Franz Kafka
You do not destroy an idea by killing people;
you replace it with
a better one.
-- Edward Keating
The ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands in moments of
comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge
and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
You must be careful how you walk, and where
you go, for there are those
following you who will set their feet where
yours are set.
-- Robert E. Lee
The education of a man is never completed until
he dies.
-- Robert E. Lee
It is true that liberty is precious, so precious
that it must be rationed.
-- Nikolai Lenin
The world began without man, and it will complete
itself without him.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very
much.
-- Walter Lippmann
I have always thought the actions of men the
best interpreters
of their thoughts.
-- John Locke
Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
-- Vince Lombardi
The ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands in
moments of comfort and convenience, but where
he stands at
times of challenge and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a
good horse,
and a good wife.
-- Daniel Boone
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Experience is not what happens to you. It is
what you do with
what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley
The will to win is worthless if you don't get
paid for it.
-- Reggie Jackson
The modern conservative is engaged in one of
man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior
moral justification for
selfishness.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt
those who find it.
-- Andre Gide
The most incomprehensible thing about the world
is that it is
comprehensible.
-- Albert Einstein
A people that values its privileges above its
principles soon loses both.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To different minds, the same world is a hell,
and a heaven.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
Before him, I may think
aloud.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My interest is in the future because I am going
to spend the rest of my life
there.
-- Charles F. Kettering
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble
the world knows nothing about,
need only a bit of praise or encouragement
-- and we will make the goal.
-- Jerome P. Fleishman
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough
to win.
-- Jonathan Kozol
What counts is not necessarily the size of
the dog in the fight - it's the
size of the fight in the dog.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
This is the way the world ends. Not with a
bang but a whimper.
-- T. S. Eliot
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience
to words of command.
-- Havelock Ellis
Always do what you are afraid to do.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
-- Oliver Herford
Kindness is a hard thing to give away; it keeps
coming back to the giver.
-- Ralph Scott
If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better
take a wet hen.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot
about little puppies.
-- Gene Hill
All that is necessary to break the spell of
inertia and frustration is this
Act as if it were impossible to fail. That
is the talisman, the formula,
the command of right-about-face which turns
us from failure towards success.
-- Dorothea Brande
There is a real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference
between mediocrity and accomplishment.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make
a living
at what you love; there's only a scarcity
of resolve
to make it happen.
-- Wayne Dyer
The greatest antidote to worry, whether you're
getting ready for a
space flight or facing a problem of daily
life, is preparation.
The more you prepare, the more you study,
the more you think, the
more you try to envision what might happen
and what your best
response and options are, the more you are
able to allay your fears
about the future.
-- Senator John Glenn
You can't rely just on talent to win.
-- Scott Young
We cannot become who we need to be by remaining
who we are.
-- Author Unknown
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how
much fault you find
with another, and regardless of how much you
blame him, it will
not change you. The only thing blame does
is to keep the focus
off you when you are looking for external
reasons to explain your
unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed
in making another
feel guilty about something by blaming him,
but you won't succeed
in changing whatever it is about you that
is making you unhappy.
-- Wayne Dyer
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what
he believes right,
but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge
instantly and
without reservation that he is in error.
-- General Peyton C. March
To be wronged is nothing unless you remember
it.
-- Confucius
Few things can help an individual more than
to place responsibility on
him, and to let him know that you trust him.
-- Booker T. Washington
Don't count the days, make the days count.
-- Muhammad Ali
The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. But the opposite
of a profound truth may well be another profound
truth.
-- Niels Bohr
The test of the morality of a society is what
it does for its children.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight
which, though it may
never end, is the most ennobling known to
man.
-- Ronald Reagan
The man who views the world at 50 the same
as he did at 20
has wasted 30 years of his life.
-- Muhammad Ali
The world is a dangerous place to live; not
because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything
about it.
-- Albert Einstein
We make war that we may live in peace.
-- Aristotle
Service to others is the rent you pay for your
room here on earth.
-- Muhammad Ali
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable
of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already
done.
-- Longfellow
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
-- Voltaire
A thought which does not result in an action
is nothing much,
and an action which does not proceed from
a thought is nothing at all.
-- Georges Bernanos
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at
his death.
-- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend
to the death your right
to say it.
-- Voltaire
Resolved, never to do anything which I should
be afraid to
do if it were the last hour of my life.
-- Jonathan Edwards
Never apologize and never explain - it's a
sign of weakness.
-- John Wayne
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity
to determine your values
and goals. Think of using all obstacles as
stepping stones to build the life
you want.
-- Marsha Sinetar
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances
to do good
actions; try to use ordinary situations.
-- Jean Paul Richter
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs
about the same.
-- Sir Philip Gibbs
We must accept finite disappointment, but never
lose infinite
hope.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
The only way to discover the limits of the
possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-- Author Unknown
Take the first step in faith. You don't
have to see the whole
staircase, just take the first step.
-- Martin Luther King
It is better to give than to lend,
and it costs about the same.
-- Philip Gibbs
Keep the faith
We all have own separate pathways to take,
Our own destinations to choose,
We all have our contributions to make,
Our own special talents to use--
We all have our own kind of life to pursue,
Our own kind of dreams to be weaving...
And we all have the power...
to make wishes come true
As long as we keep on believing.
-- Amanda Bradley
Great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
Discouragement is the opposite of courage.
--Connie Tilley
Try not to become a man of success. Rather
become a man of
value.
--Albert Einstein
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin
it. Boldness
has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin
it now.
--Goethe
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if
every man were
such as you, and every life a life like yours,
this earth
would be God's Paradise.
--Phillips Brooks
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is
about creating
yourself.
--George Bernard Shaw
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a
single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness
never decreases by being shared.
--Buddha
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the
attainment. Full
effort is full victory.
--Mahatma Ghandi
Guard well your spare moments. They are like
uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value will never be
known. Improve
them and they will become the brightest gems
in a useful life.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing should be prized more highly than the
value of each day.
--Goethe
The future belongs to those who believe in
the beauty of their
dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
They see
things in the soft haze of a spring day or
in the red fire of a long
winter's evening. Some of us let these great
dreams die, but others
nourish and protect them; nurse them through
bad days till they
bring them to the sunshine and light which
comes always to those
who sincerely hope that their dreams will
come true.
--Woodrow Wilson
Use what talent you possess: the woods would
be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best.
--Henry Van Dyke
We realize that what we are accomplishing is
a drop in the
ocean. But if that drop were not in the ocean,
it would be
missed.
--Mother Theresa
Without fear, there is no courage.
-- Author Unknown
Be humble, patient, and persistent.
--Tim McGuire
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there
is no path and leave a trail.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing
until you
get there.
--Josh Billings
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather
than down.
Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
--Jerry Chin
I find the great thing in this world is not
so
much where we stand, as in what direction
we are
moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must
sail
sometimes with the wind and sometimes against
it,
but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at
anchor.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
There isn't enough darkness in all the world
to
snuff out the light of one little candle.
-- Author Unknown
What you possess in the world will be found
at
the day of your death to belong to someone
else.
But what you are will be yours forever.
--Henry Van Dyke
Try not to become a man of success. Rather
become
a man of value.
--Albert Einstein
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you
never
know how soon it will be too late.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not hard to make decisions
when you know what your values are.
-- Roy Disney
Don't just learn the tricks of the trade.
Learn the trade.
-- James Bennis
Though no one can go back and make a brand
new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand
new ending.
-- Carl Bard
You may be flexible on strategy,
but must remain consistent on principle.
-- Author Unknown
Within yourself deliverance must be searched
for,
because each man makes his own prison.
-- Sir Edwin Arnold
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts
-
once one knows the necessary ingredients of
happiness -
simple tastes, a certain degree of courage,
self-denial to
a point, love of work, and above all, a clear
conscience.
-- George Sand
In the end, everything works out. If it hasn't
worked out yet,
that's because you haven't gotten to the end.
-- Author Unknown
Only when you've been in the deepest Valley,
will you ever
know how magnificent it is to be on the highest
Mountain.
-- Author Unknown
Families are about love overcoming emotional
torture.
-- Matt Groening
Make someone happy everyday, even if it is
only yourself.
-- Author Unknown
You have the power to make happiness a way
of life
instead of an occasional experience.
-- Author Unknown
We must free ourselves of the hope that the
sea will ever rest.
We must learn to sail in high winds.
-- Hanmer Parsons Grant
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all
these are helps
instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly.
They not
only test the fiber of character but strengthen
it. Every
conquering temptation represents a new fund
of moral
energy. Every trial endured and weathered
in the right
spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than
it was before.
-- James Buckham
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
-- Thomas Carlyle
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The
man who persists
through the bad luck -- who keeps right on
going -- is the
man who is there when the good luck comes
-- and is ready
to receive it.
-- Robert Collier
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every
difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill
Try not to become a man of success but rather
try to
become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein
The expectations of life depend upon diligence;
the mechanic
that would perfect his work must first sharpen
his tools.
-- Confucius
Consistency is a virtue for trains. What
we want from a philosopher
is insights, whether he comes by them consistently
or not.
-- Stephen Vizinczey
The free man is he who does not fear to go
to the end of his thought.
-- Leon Blum
The only way to improve your life is to start
now
-- Author Unknown
The real voyage of discovery consists not in
seeing new lands,
but in seeing with new eyes.
-- Marcel Proust
Measure wealth not by the things you have,
but by the things you have
for which you would not take money.
-- Author Unknown
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without
work one finishes nothing. The
prize will not be sent to you. You have to
win it. The man who knows how
will always have a job. The man who also knows
why will always be his boss.
As to methods there may be a million and then
some, but principles are few.
The man who grasps principles can successfully
select his own methods.
The man who tries methods, ignoring principles,
is sure to have trouble.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To know that even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
that is to have succeeded.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in
one form or another.
-- Aleister Crowley
It is not the size of a man but the size of
his heart that matters.
-- Evander Holyfield
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to
apply it;
not having it, to confess your ignorance.
-- Confucius
What you see, but can't see over is as good
as infinite.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Don't give up when you still have something
to give.
Nothing is really over until the moment you
stop trying.
-- Author Unknown
We are what we repeatedly do; therefore, excellence
is a
habit, not an act.
-- Author Unknown
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is
the first necessity
of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied
man and I will show
you a failure.
-- Thomas A. Edison
You train people how to treat you by how you
treat yourself.
-- Martin Rutte
Integrity has no need for rules.
-- Albert Camus
Try to find humor in everything, for a smile
increases your face value.
-- Author Unknown
The least initial deviation from the truth
is multiplied later
a thousandfold.
-- Aristotle
Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth
is calculated.
Without challenge people cannot reach their
higher selves.
Only if we are willing to walk over the edge
can we become winners.
-- Author Unknown
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter
what his years,
that minute he begins to be old.
-- William James
If passion drives you, let reason hold the
reins.
-- Benjamin Franklin
No man, for any considerable period, can wear
one face to
himself, and another to the multitude, without
finally getting
bewildered as to which may be true.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not
so absolute in
their goodness that they do not know what
human frailty is.
-- Author Unknown
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
If you can't have the best of everything, make
the best of
everything you have.
-- Author Unknown
The time for action is now. It's never
too late to do something.
-- Carl Sandburg
Character is made by what you stand for; reputation,
by what you
fall for.
-- Robert Quillen
No man can think clearly when his fists are
clenched.
-- George Hean Nathan
By all means marry. If you get a good
wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
-- Socrates
A string of reproaches against other people
leads one to suspect
the existence of a string of self-reproaches
with the same content.
-- Sigmund Freud
He who would do some great things in this short
life must apply
himself to work with such a concentration
of force such that, to idle
spectators who live only to amuse themselves,
it looks like insanity.
-- Francis Parkma
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which
you have accepted the worst.
-- Lin Yutang
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.
-- L. Thomas Holdcroft
Pain and Suffering are inevitable but Misery
is optional.
-- Author Unknown
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss,
you will be among the stars.
--Les Brown
Life is like a game of cards. The hand
that is dealt you represents determinism;
the way you play it is free will.
-- Jawaharial Nehru
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Life is like a cup of tea ... it's all in how you make it.
-- Author Unknown (Thanks to File Måire Spillane)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
-- Plutarch
If a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in
certainties.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Aging is like flying a plane through a storm.
Once you are aboard, there's nothing you can do.
-- Golda Meir
The deed is everything.
-- Goethe
There is so much GOOD in the WORST of us,
And so much BAD in the BEST of us,
It little behooves any of us
To TALK about the REST of us."
-- Author unknown (Thanks to "Bob of BLTBROWN96")
In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was within me an
invincible summer.
--Albert Camus
Asked about his philosophy of life, President Harry S. Truman, a
farmboy
at heart, replied, "Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."
--Merle Miller
