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Keep your fears to yourself,
but share your courage with others.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend
to be.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
-- Mark Twain
Argyou not about the hand you are dealt in cards or life.
--Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on
getting what
they deserve.
--Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana
To do two things at once is to do neither.
-- Publilius Syrus
Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his
sons
the hardships that made him rich.
-- Robert Frost
You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
-- Dick Armey
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
-- Francis Bacon
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil
them to the eyes of men ...
crisis shows us what we have become.
-- Bishop Westcott
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is
firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles
unto death.
-- Thomas Paine
A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
-- Bern Williams
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes
longer.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
-- Edgar J. Mohn
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
-- William Cowper
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain
A mule dressed in a tuxedo is still a mule.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
-- Mary Beard
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success
is sure.
-- Mark Twain
Always be a little kinder than is necessary.
-- James M. Barrie
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important
than any other one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time
has come.
-- Victor Hugo
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too
awful
to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all,
fear.
-- Joan Rivers
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.
-- Robertine Maynard
Be bold. Providence loves boldness and will assist you in ways
you wouldn't
imagine.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
-- George Bancroft
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
-- Sigmund Freud
Buy ladders, extension cords and garden hoses longer than you think
you'll need.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Character is simply habit long continued.
-- Plutarch
Character is that which can do without success.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is the sum total of all our everyday choices.
-- Margaret Jensen
Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it.
-- Author Unknown
Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers;
it comes from being open to all the questions.
-- Earl Gary Stevens
Couples without children always know how you should raise yours.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
-- Mark Twain
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which
is a lack,
the other an excess, of courage.
-- Plutarch
Danger--if you meet it promptly and without flinching--you will reduce
the
danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
-- Winston Churchill
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall
find
the way.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Do the best in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem
at the time.
No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
-- Sandra Day O'Connor
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
-- Henry Ford
Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
-- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
-- Frances Havergal
Each of us is the accumulation of our memories.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis
Enthusiasm is the father of excellence.
-- Bruce Alan Johnson
Envy is the adversary of the fortunate.
-- Epictetus
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged
of man.
-- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit
simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
Failure is not a crime. Failure to learn from failure is.
-- Walter Wriston
Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.
-- E. L.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
-- Victor Hugo
Great successes are built on taking your negatives and turning them
around.
-- Sumner Redstone
Happiness is like perfume: you can't give it away without getting
a little
on yourself.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Happiness, like an old friend, is inclined to drop in unexpectedly
- when you're
working hard on something else.
-- Rev. Ray Inman
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his
wishes and
his powers!
-- Goethe
Have more actual troubles...and fewer imaginary ones.
-- Don Herold
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
-- Ben Jonson
He that always gives way to others will end having no principles
of his own.
-- Aesop
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
-- Seneca
Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just
react differently.
-- Cus D'Amato
High expectations are the key to everything.
-- Sam Walton
Hopes are the dreams of those who are awake.
-- Pindar
Horse sense means seeing things two ways - how you want them to be
and
how they have to be.
-- June Smith
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes
of it.
-- Marcus Aurelius
Humans are undoubtedly illogical. The idea of logic was created
by humans.
Therefore, logical analysis of the concept of logic proves logic
is an
illogical concept.
-- Author Unknown
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it
happens.
-- Woody Allen
I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind.
Being broke
is a temporary situation.
-- Mike Todd
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the
more I
have of it.
-- Stephen Leacock
I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot
be glad, content
with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.
-- Elizabeth Montague
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably
the finest
sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called
on account
of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time
you can.
-- Linda Ellerbee
I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations--to be grateful,
to be
faithful to all engagements and under all circumstances, to be open
and generous,
promoting in the long run even the interests of both.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the
second time
into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
-- Josh Billings
I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.
-- Confucius
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
-- Author Unknown
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
-- Tom Peters
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most
of
us would never start out at all.
-- Dan Rather
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit.
There's no
use being a damn fool about it.
-- W. C. Fields
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should
first
examine it and see whether it is not something that could be better
changed
in ourselves.
-- Carl Jung
If you are making mistakes, that means you are taking risks, and
you can't
grow unless you take risks.
-- Robert Wood Johnson
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-- Hermann Hesse
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
-- Geena Davis
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win but think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster one,
But sooner or later, the one who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
-- Author Unknown
If you treat an individual as what he is, he will stay that way,
but if you
treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he
could be.
-- Goethe
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-- Dolly Parton
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent
the universe.
-- Carl Sagan
Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall
In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their
place.
-- Francis Bacon
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year,
the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
-- Linda Ellerbee
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
-- Henry David Thoreau
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-- Sister Kenny
It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
-- Casey Robinson
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced
boldly.
-- Isaac Asimov
It is a part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
-- Thomas Jefferson
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them
and
not deserve them.
-- Mark Twain
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
-- Henry David Thoreau
It is no rest to be idle.
-- Paul Peel
It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness
of the
human soul; it is kindness.
-- Henri-Dominique Lacordaire
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
-- Edmund Hillary
It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.
-- The Maxims of Proust
It takes two to speak the truth-- one to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs.
-- H. Stein
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain
any abject
thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
-- Epictetus
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
-- Socrates
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
-- Malcom S. Forbes
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
-- Daniel Webster
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than
the
raising of the next generation.
-- C. Everett Koop, M.D.
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more
dear
than life.
-- William Shakespeare
Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are making ourselves
every moment by every decision we make.
-- Kent Nerburn
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you
stop pedaling.
-- Claude Pepper
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want
is
someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
-- Oprah Winfrey
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as
evidence of
fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking pattern can create
a self-
fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning process. To maximize
our
learning it is essential to ask:
"How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"
-- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Measure wealth not by the things you have, but by the things you
have for
which you would not take money.
-- Author Unknown
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants,
or manufacturers;
and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves
capable
and sensible lawyers or physicians.
-- John Stuart Mill
Money changes people just as often as it changes hands.
-- Al Batt
Money is a lousy means of keeping score.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Morale is self-esteem in action.
-- Avery Weisman
Never be the first to break a family tradition.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
No great artist sees things as they really are. If he did,
he would cease
to be an artist.
-- Oscar Wilde
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any
man's
permission when we ask him to obey it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
-- Althea Gibson
No one ever excused his way to success.
-- Dave Del Dotto
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
-- Publilius Syrus
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
-- Cicero
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
-- Anthony Trollope
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
-- Benjamin Whichcote
Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent.
Just common sense and love will do.
-- Myrtle Auvil
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful
people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan
"press on" has
solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-- Calvin Coolidge
Nothing is as stressful as trying to be a different person from whom
you are.
-- Michael Levine
Nothing is worth more than this day.
-- Goethe
Nothing last forever - not even your troubles.
-- Arnold H. Glasglow
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what
you can do
with what there is.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Old age is like climbing a mountain. The higher you get, the
more tired and
breathless you become. But your view becomes much more extensive.
-- Ingmar Bergman
One man with courage makes a majority.
-- Andrew Jackson
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what
one is
trying to achieve. -- Paul Nitze
One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only
interests.
-- John Stuart Mill
Our own hearts, and not other men's opinions, form our true honor.
-- Samuel Coleridge
Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind.
-- Andy J. Sklivis
Peace is achieved one person at a time, through a series of friendships.
-- Fatma Reda
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
-- Lord Byron
Power invariably means both responsibility and danger.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Prenuptial Agreement: An "I Do" with an asterisk.
-- Current Comedy
Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many
- not on
your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens
Remember that no time spent with your children is ever wasted.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember...we're judged by what we finish, not what we start.
-- Author Unknown
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
-- Anthony Powell
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others
to
live as one wishes to live.
-- Oscar Wilde
Silence is not only golden; it's seldom misquoted.
-- Bob Monkhouse
Some folks want to die with dignity but live without it.
-- Parts Pups '94
Some men spend more time maintaining their lawns than they do their
relationships.
-- Michael Levine
Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of
the spoon.
-- E.M. Forster
Striving to be better, oft we mar what's well.
-- Shakespeare
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish
for yourself. It's what you do for others.
-- Danny Thomas
Success is not forever, and failure is not fatal.
-- Don Shula
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction
in
knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of
becoming...
never try to be better than someone else. That's something
over which you
have no control.
-- John Wooden
Temper is what gets most of us in trouble. Pride is what keeps
us there.
-- Author Unknown
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
-- John Locke
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
but their
inward significance.
-- Aristotle
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly
well.
-- Sir William Osler
The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
The fear of death keeps us from living, not from dying.
-- Paul C. Roud
The first step in solving a problem is to tell someone about it.
-- John Peter Flynn
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in
which direction we are moving.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What
we obtain
too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that
gives everything
its value.
-- Thomas Paine
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which
to burn.
-- David Russell
The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven
to survive.
-- Hugh Gilmore
The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
-- Horace
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their
professions.
-- Junius
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor
between
political parties either - but right through every human heart.
-- Aleksander I. Solzhenitsyn
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.
Success depends on which one we use the most.
-- Ann Landers
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much
as the
honesty. Possibly more.
-- Richard J. Needham
The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.
-- Robert Kirby
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.
-- Leonard Nimoy
The only thing that wealth does for some people is to make them worry
about losing it.
-- Compote De Riverol
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
-- John Muir
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment
to
excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
-- Vince Lombardi
The time to read the instructions is BEFORE you put the swing set
together.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, Good and ill together.
-- Shakespeare
There's no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There's nothing wrong with being a self-made man if you don't consider
the
job finished too soon.
-- John Mooney
There are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those
who take the
credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition
there.
-- Indira Ghandi
There is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
-- Bernard Shaw
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle
the mental
apparatus.
-- Mark Twain
There is nothing permanent except change.
-- Heraclitus
Time is the relationship between events.
-- Yakima Indian Nation
Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels
others.
-- Clara Winston
To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting.
-- Stanislaus I
To err is human, to forgive is divine--but to forget altogether is
humane.
-- Gloria Pitzer
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go
on creating
oneself endlessly.
-- Henri Bergson
To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything
else.
-- Bernadette Devlin
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
-- John Henry Newman
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
-- John C. Collins
To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is
true of
a nation.
-- Anthony Quayle
Truth hurts - not the searching after; the running from!
-- John Eyberg
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it's usually shorter too.
-- WFS
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
-- Nadine Gordimer
Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
-- Paul Valery
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
-- Jonathan Swift
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
-- Frank Outlaw
We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
-- Eduardo Galeano
What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.
-- Bodie Thoene
When everything in your life seems to be absolutely perfect, something
is
going wrong that you don't know about yet.
-- Ann Landers
When in charge, ponder;
When in trouble, delegate;
When in doubt, mumble.
-- James H. Boren
When in doubt, duck.
-- Malcom S. Forbes
When people aim for what they want out of life, most aim too low.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could
always
be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that
things are
so bad they have to get better.
-- Malcom S. Forbes
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
-- Henry J. Kaiser
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't
hear.
-- Donald E. Westlake
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
-- Frank Scully
Wisdom ofttimes consists of knowing what to do next.
-- Herbert Hoover
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have
to be
their top priority.
-- William Arthur Ward
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy
known to man.
-- Louis Nizer
Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do,
but it
doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Author Unknown
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're
never
as bad as they say when you lose.
-- Lou Holtz
You can't hug your kids too much.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means
he uses
to frighten you.
-- Eric Hoffer
You can only keep one thought in your mind at a time, so make it
a good one.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
You cannot buy enthusiasm...you cannot buy loyalty...you cannot buy
the
devotion of hearts, minds, or souls. You must earn these.
-- Clarence Francis
You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
-- Doug Floyd
You get people to do what you want not by bullying them or tricking
them,
but by understanding them.
-- Author Unknown
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know
other people.
A piece of us is in every person we ever meet.
-- John D. MacDonald
You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed
with the
won-lost record of the referee.
-- John H. Holcomb
You will stay young as long as you learn, form new habits and don't
mind
being contradicted.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
