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Any person capable of angering
you becomes your master; he
can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed
by him.
-
Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher
There is a sense of
exhilaration that comes from facing
head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up.
We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we
will find a way to prevail."
- Jim Collins
Unswerving loyalty to duty,
constant devotion to truth, and a
clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and
surely lead the way to usefulness and high achievement.
- Grover Cleveland
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be
miserable.
-
Anonymous
For attractive lips, speak
words of kindness. For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your
food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his
or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the
knowledge that you'll never walk alone.
- Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) British
Actress
You cannot add to the peace and
good will of the world if you
fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where
you live and work.
- Thomas Dreier
Our capacity to draw happiness
from aesthetic objects or
material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first
satisfying a more important range of emotional or
psychological needs, among them the need for understanding,
for love, expression and respect.
- Alain De Botton
Laughter is the sun that drives
winter from the human face.
- Anonymous
When we are mindful of every
nuance of our natural world,
we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling
moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that
reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of
our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic
participation with it. (From her biography of naturalist
Eustace Conway.)
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Courage does not always roar.
Sometimes, it is the quiet
voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".
-
Anonymous
Do not be too timid and
squeamish about your actions. All
life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A childlike man is not a man
whose development has been
arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself
a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have
muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and
convention.
- Aldous Huxley
In work, the greatest
satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of
stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them
expand, and knowing that you have accomplished something
that could have been done only by your unique apparatus.
This is really the center of life, and those who never orient
themselves in this direction are missing more than they ever
know.
- Kenneth Alsop (1920-1973)
Nothing is more endangered in
the modern world than the
powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals
joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
- Tom Morris
If there is one thing upon this
earth that mankind love and
admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man
who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a
devil.
- James A. Garfield
Every man has an obscure
respect for courage in others,
especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult
sort of bravery... It makes the very brute understand that
this man is more than a man.
- Passage from Life of Christ
None will improve your lot if
you yourself do not.
- Bertolt Brecht, 1933
In every person who comes near
you look for what is good
and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will
drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art
Critic
The abundant life does not come
to those who have had a
lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It
develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and
moral fiber.
- William Mather Lewis
To give real service you must
add something which cannot
be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and
integrity.
- Donald A. Adams
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is
a feeling that accompanies
important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman
Class is an aura of confidence
that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs
scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure
footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
- Ann Landers, 1918-2002
Self-reverence, self-knowledge,
self-control. These three
alone lead to sovereign power.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
The beauty of the soul shines
out when a man bears with
composure one heavy mischance after another, not because
he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and
heroic temper.
- Aristotle
The important thing is this: to
be able at any moment to
sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos
Nothing will ever be attempted,
if all possible objections
must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author
Our real duty is always found
running in the direction of our
worthiest desires.
-
Randolph S. Bourne
(1886-1918) American Writer
He who reigns within himself
and rules his passions, desires,
and fears is more than a king.
- John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet
Faith that the thing can be
done is essential to any great
achievement.
- Thomas N. Carruther
One day in retrospect the years
of struggle will strike you as
the most beautiful.
- Sigmund Freud
The most important thing I have
learned over the years is the
difference between taking one's work seriously and taking
one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second
disastrous.
- Margaret Fontey
You can stand tall without
standing on someone. You can be
a victor without having victims.
-
Harriet Woods (1927-) American Politician
To think bad thoughts is really
the easiest thing in the world. If you leave
your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness.
To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the
things that discipline - training - is about.
-- James Clavell, "Shogun"
The only service a friend can
really render is to keep up your
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see
a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish
Playwright
The man who makes no mistakes
does not usually make
anything.
- Bishop W.C. Magee (1821-1891)
The height of your
accomplishments will equal the depth of
your convictions.
- William F. Scolavino
I think the purpose of life is
to be useful, to be responsible, to
be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter:
to count, to stand for something, to have made some
difference that you lived at all.
- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American
Writer
Genuine security arises from
actual, first-hand knowledge that
one is both capable and worthy of achieving happiness
(through conscious, responsible action) and, once having
attained it, that he deserves it.
- Michael J. Hurd
It is a fine thing to have
ability, but the ability to discover
ability in others is the true test.
- Elbert Hubbard
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