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“If you're going to be able to look back on something and
laugh about it, you might as well laugh
about it now.” - Marie Osmond
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act
responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.E.)
“I love quotations because it is a
joy to find thoughts one might
have, beautifully expressed with
much authority by someone
recognized wiser than oneself.” -
Marlene Dietrich
"Weakness of attitude becomes
weakness of character." - Albert Einstein
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein
"The only job where you start at
the top is digging a hole." Anon.
"Character is what you have left when you've lost
everything you can lose." - Evan Esar
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,
not by the desire to beat others.” – Ayn Rand
“It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go
in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.” - Zig Ziglar
"I am still determined to be
cheerful and happy, in
whatever situation I may be;
for I have also learned from
experience that the greater
part of our happiness or
misery depends upon our
dispositions, and not upon
our circumstances."
- Martha Washington
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which,
more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."
- William James
“I am very efficient at work. In fact, I have never once missed a
coffee break.” - Anon.
"The world is a great mirror. It reflects
back to you what you are. If you are
loving, if you are friendly, if you are
helpful, the world will prove loving and
friendly and helpful to you. The world is
what you are." -Thomas Dreier
"No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"You give but little
when you give of
your possessions. It
is when you give of
yourself that you
truly give."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Love is doing small
things with great love."
- Mother Teresa
"I long to accomplish a great
and noble task, but it is my
chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if they were great and
noble." - Helen Keller
"You are the people who are
shaping a better world. One of
the secrets of inner peace is the
practice of compassion."
- Dalai Lama
"Education is the ability to listen
to almost anything without
losing your temper or your self-
confidence." - Robert Frost
"All the kindness which a man
puts out into the world works on
the heart and thoughts of
mankind."
- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
“People are like stained-glass
windows. They sparkle and shine
when the sun is out, but when the
darkness sets in, their true beauty is
revealed only if there is a light from
within.” - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
"The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen, nor
touched...but are felt in the heart."
- Helen Keller (1880-1968)
"When you hear a kind word
spoken about a friend, tell him
so." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Here is the test to find
whether your mission on earth
is finished.
If you're alive, it isn't. “ -
Richard Bach
"The true republic:
men, their rights and nothing
more;
women, their rights and nothing
less."
-Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
“You can’t find happiness – you just
have to learn to be happy without
it.” - Charles Schultz.
"Always do right. This will gratify
some people and astonish the
rest." - Mark Twain
“Most people are about as happy as
they intend to be.” Abraham Lincoln.
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not
an act but a habit.” - Aristotle
“Happiness is a choice.” -
Book by Barry Neil Kaufman
“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.” – St Teresa of Avila
“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done,
it's always your choice.” – Wayne Dyer
“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest
later.” – Og Mandino
“Some people walk in the rain. Others
just get wet.” - Roger Miller
”Begin to be now what you will
be hereafter.” – William James
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill
“The mind is in it's own place, and in
itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell
of Heav'n” - John Milton
"If you break your neck, if you have
nothing to eat, if your house is on
fire, then you got a problem.
Everything else is inconvenience." -
Robert Fulghum
“We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this
happen to me?"
unless we ask the same question for every moment of
happiness
that comes our way.” – Anon.
“Better to ask a dumb question than to make a stupid
mistake.” – Anon.
”Nothing is good or bad, but thinking
makes it so.” - William Shakespeare
“We are too hasty to criticise,
too slow to acknowledge good.” - AKM
"One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the
examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such
a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final
examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems
distasteful to me for an entire year." - Albert Einstein
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to
complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful
how much may be done if we are always doing.”
– Thomas Jefferson
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.”
- William Shakespeare, Othello
“There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it.” - Edith Wharton
“I do not take a single
newspaper, nor read one a
month, and I feel myself
infinitely the happier for it.” -
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
“Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.” – Baruch
Spinoza
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to
make the turn.” – Anon.
"I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no
feet." - Indian Proverb
"Love doesn't make the world go round, but it makes the ride
worthwhile." - Franklin P. Jones
"To have joy, one must share it." - Lord Byron
"Holding onto anger is like drinking
poison and expecting the other
person to die." Buddha
"You'll never plow a field by turning
it over in your mind." - old Gaelic
proverb
“Earth provides enough to satisfy
every man's need, but not every
man's greed” – Mohandas Ghandi
"You can't help getting older but
you don't have to get old." -
George Burns
"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional." - Unknown
“Do what you feel in
your heart to be right
- for you'll be
criticized anyway.
You'll be damned if
you do, and damned
if you don't.” - Eleanor
Roosevelt
“I expect to pass through this world but once.
Any good, therefore, that I can do or any
kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let
me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I
shall not pass this way again.” - Stephen Grellet
"Remember, if you ever need a helping
hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm
... As you grow older you will discover that
you have two hands. One for helping
yourself, the other for helping others."
- credited to Audrey Hepburn
but she was quoting Sam Levenson
“I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
- Maya Angelou
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an
impulse to soar.” - Helen Keller
"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice."
- John Templeton (renowned investor and philanthropist)
or John Cassis (baseballer, M. Div, motivational speaker)
or Roger Federer (tennis star.)
"The only people with whom you should try to get even, are
those who have helped you." - John E Southard
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If the problem can
be solved,
there is no use
worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no
good.
- Tibetan proverb
The difference between what we
do and what we are capable of
doing would suffice to solve most
of the world's problem.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
“A person who is nice
to you but rude to the
waiter is not a nice
person.”
- Dave Barry
Forgiveness is not that stripe which
says, “I will forgive, but not forget.”
It is not to bury the hatchet with the
handle sticking out of the ground, so
you can grasp it the minute you want it.
Dwight L. Moody
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“Do everything, anything, however menial, measuring it not
by hours or by dollars, but by love.”
- Amy Carmichael
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the
delusions of our childish days; That can transport the
sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back
to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
--- Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered
than answers that can’t be questioned.”
- Richard Feynman