Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

                                        -- Washington Irving

"We cannot ever really love anybody with whom we never laugh."

- Agnes Repplier
 

Life is a grindstone.
  Whether it grinds a person down
 or polishes a person up
 depends on what one is made of.

                                                            -- Old proverb

  Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

                      -- Vince Lombardi

        This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.  I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.  I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.  I rejoice in life for its own sake.  Life is no brief candle to me.  It is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got ahold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to further generations.

                                                         -- George Bernard Shaw

Mere longevity is a good thing
for those who watch Life from the side lines.
 For those who play the game, an hour may be a year,
 a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

                                                                 -- Gabriel Heatter

"Success at the expense of faith and family really is failure"

  -- Byrd Baggett, The Book of Excellence

 

Making a living is necessary and often satisfying:
 eventually, making a difference becomes more important.

          -- David Campbell

The problem isn’t the problem -
 the problem is the attitude about the problem.

            -- Kelly Young, age 19

 

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand;
 he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both;
 but he that gives good admonition and bad example,
 builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

-- Francis Bacon

 

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous,
the sensible man almost nothing.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Restlessness is discontent, and
 discontent is the first necessity of progress.

                                 -- Thomas Edison

 

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

                                                     -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

  A bend in the road is not the end of the road ...
unless you fail to make the turn.

-- Anon

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

          -- Arthur Koestler, British writer (b. 1905)

 

Everyone who's taken a shower has an idea.
 It's the person who gets out of the shower,
 dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

                                 -- Nolan Bushnell

 

They may forget what you said but
they will never forget how you made them feel.

-- Carl Buehner

 

One must have chaos in one's self
in order to give birth to a dancing star.

            -- Fredrick Nietzsche

Whether you believe you can or you can’t, you’re right.

-- Henry Ford

"Men occasionally stumble into knowledge: but
most of them pick themselves up
 and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

 -- Winston Churchill

  "I don't know the key to success, but
 the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

-- Bill Cosby

"Do what you know in you heart is right,
 for you will be criticized anyway."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

  A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities,
 and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

 -- Harry Truman

An object in possession seldom retains
 the same charm that it had in pursuit.

-- Unknown

The capacity to care is the thing which
 gives life its deepest meaning and significance.

             -- Pablo Casals

Everybody sooner or later sits down to a banquet of consequences.

 -- Robert Lewis Stevenson
 

People judge you by your actions, not your intentions.
You may have a heart of gold, but so does a hard-boiled egg.

                     -- Good Reading

What lies behind us and what lies before us
 are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

                                                    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

BE the change in the world you want to see

- Mahatma Ghandi 
 

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