John Adams
”…if conscience disapproves, the
loudest applauses of the world are of little value.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes."
Henry
J. Kaiser
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
Robert
Louis Stevenson
"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the
only end of life"
Teddy
Roosevelt
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than
to live in that gray twilight that knows neither
victory nor defeat...”
Press
on!
”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 alone will not: the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent!”
Frederick
Douglas
“If there is no struggle, there is not progress.”
Albert Einstein
“Science without religion is lame, religion
without science is blind.”
”The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
Abraham Lincoln “The Lord prefers common looking people. That’s why
he made so many of them.”
Geronimo “I cannot think that we are useless or God would not
have created us.”
Winston S. Churchill
“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that
counts.”
Marcus Aurelius
"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
Buddha
"Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe
what you yourself have done or not done."
"Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by
love."
Marcus Tullius
Cicero
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
Charles Caleb Colton
"When you have nothing to say,
say nothing."
Confucius
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but
in rising every time we fall."
Leonardo da Vinci
”As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy
death."
Walt Disney
"All dreams come true, if you have the courage to pursue them."
Robert Frost
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I chose the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the difference."
"A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a
quarrel."
Ernest
Hemingway
"When people talk, listen
completely. Most people never listen."
Helen Keller
"Character cannot be developed
in ease and quiet. Only though experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success
achieved."
Kwan-Tzu
"If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him
how to fish, he will eat all his life."
Sophocles
"One who knows how to show and
to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
--"Lady of
"Love, like Death
Levels all ranks
And lays the shepherd's crook
Beside the scepter."
Anonymous
"The government never gave anyone anything without first taking it away from
someone who worked for it."
Daniel
Webster, 1840
"When Tillage begins, the other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are
the founders of civilization"
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1813-1887, American
Preacher, Orator, Writer)
”Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but
wise.”
“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
”All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries and
credulities of mankind”
”The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every
other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him,
without hindrance.”
”Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be
unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide
would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make,
only his compass and chart would be overboard.”
”Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.”
”A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for
Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”
”The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a
school for the education of imperfect ones.”
”The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.”
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of
you. Never excuse yourself."
LYMAN
”No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without
controversy.”
Harold S. Greneen
“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience.
Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”
Kevin Anderson
”Opportunities to serve our fellowman seldom come at convenient times.”
”Hasten not to judgment based on the testimony of one.”
”Man sees with his own eyes, hears with his own ears, and judges according to
his own prejudices.”
Hyrum Anderson
”Dad, you are wrong! Opportunities for service don’t seldom
come at convenient times, they never
come at convenient times.”
Ambassador Li Zhaoxing,
People’s Republic of
“Farmers are the only indispensable
people on the face of the earth.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up.”
”The brilliant moves we occasionally make would not have been possible without
the prior dumb ones.
Henry Ford
Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or
greedy, the money brings that out, that is all.
46
year-old’s discovery
I’ve learned that the greater a person’s sense of guilt, the greater his need
to cast blame on others.
John Dryden
”We first make our habits, and then our
habits break us.
Samuel Johnson
”The chains of habit are generally too
small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
Horace Mann
Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at
last we cannot break it.”
Henry Wheeler Shaw
”It is easy to assume a habit; but when you
try to cast if off, it will take skin and all.”
Aesop
”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Andrew Chapman
”Kindness is the kingpin of success in life;
it is the prime factor in overcoming friction and making the human machinery
run smoothly.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
”An eye can threaten like a loaded and
leveled gun, or can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by
beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance with joy.”
”The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon
the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.”
Author Unknown
”Kindness has more power than compulsion.”
William Wordsworth
”The best parts of a good man's life are
his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Sir Arthur Helps
”Wise sayings often fall on barren ground;
but a kind word is never thrown away.”
Yiddish Proverb
You cannot hold your head high with your hand
out.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it
to.
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
If you want your dreams to come true, don't over sleep.
God gave burdens, also shoulders.
Henri Alain
Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox
in two days.
Indira
Gandhi
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the
credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there.
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
”A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon
you're talking about real money. “
Ralph Waldo Emerson
”A friend is a person with
whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.”
Wilson Mizner
”A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to
know something. “
Dwight D. Eisenhower
”A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.“
Joseph Stalin
”A single death is a tragedy, a million
deaths is a statistic.”
David Brinkley
“A successful person is one who can lay a
firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.”
Henry B. Adams
”A teacher affects eternity; he can never
tell, where his influence stops.”
Jean Paul Richter
”A timid person is frightened before a
danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.”
John
Ciardi
”A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses
interest in students.”
Montaigne
“A wise man sees as much as he ought,
not as much as he can. “
William Shenstone
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside
some time in a foreign one.
Albert Camus
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there
isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Mohandas
Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so
unlike your Christ.
Barry M.
Goldwater
On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position
on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus
Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like
any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used
sparingly.
Elbert
Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Harry Emerson
Fosdick
A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a
chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported
into personal lives upon the other.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
There were honest people long before there were
Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are
no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians
because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if
Christianity did not exist.
Pascal
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be
known.
Bishop
Desmond Tutu
When the missionaries came to
Sir Winston Churchill
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get
its pants on."
Galileo Galilei
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
-
Emile Zola
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without
work."
-
Martin Luther King Jr.
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends."
-
Henry Ford
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually
right."
Aesop
Be content with your lot; one cannot be
first in everything.
Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness,
but there is no happiness without action.
A ship is
always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in
paint and powder.
General John B. Sedgwick Last words,
They
couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
Wendell Phillips
Difference
of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Maya Angelou
"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't
be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning, say 'Good
morning' at total strangers. "
Victor Borge
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not
laughed."
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
"One
can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know
anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
John Calvin
"We
must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not
that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the
brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is
duly perceived and rooted in the heart."
Jeremy Taylor
“Knowledge
comes by eyes always open and working hands, and there is no knowledge that is
not power."