-- Anonymous
 

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one
way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave
in another.

-- Charles Caleb Colton
 

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes
perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and
kindness.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese philosopher
 

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find
them, make them.

-- George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 1893
 

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of
virtue and reason.

-- Alfred North Whitehead
 

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about
themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing.

-- J.E de Goncourt, "Idees et Sensations," 1866

Hoping means seeing that the outcome you
want is possible
and then working for it

-- Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
 

There is no such things as no chance

-- Henry Ford

Where there is life, there is hope

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

A room without a book,
like a body without a soul

-- Cicero

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by
each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself,
"I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that
comes along."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

If i were asked to give what i consider the
single most useful bit of advice for all
humanity it would be this :
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and
when it comes, hold your head high,
look it squarely in the eye and say,
" I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."

-- Ann Landers

Life is what happens when you are
busy making other plans

-- John Lennon

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking
which more than anything else, will determine its outcome

-- William James

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has opened for us

-- Helen Keller

There ain't much fun in medicine, but
there's a heck of a lot of medicine in fun

-- Josh Billings

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.

-- Anonymous

The greatest discovery of any generation is that
human beings can alter their lives by altering
the attitudes of their minds

-- Albert Schweitzer

In order to laugh, you must be able to play
with your pain

-- Annette Goodheart

Nothing is quite as funny as the unintended humor of reality

-- Steve Allen

He who laughs, lasts

-- Mary Pettibone Poole

Pray to God, but row for shore

-- Russian proverb

Faith is to believe what we do not see;
the reward of this faith is to see
what we believe

-- Saint Augustine

Why is it when we talk to God
we are said to be praying, and
when God talks to us
we are said to be schizophrenic?

-- Lily Tomlin

Seven days without laughter make one weak

-- Joel Goodman

We began by imagining that we are giving to them;
we end by realizing that they have enriched us

-- Pope John Paul II

In order to be a realist
you must believe in miracles

-- David Ben-Gurion

The most important medicine is
tender love and care

-- Mother Teresa

It is a curious thing in human experience but
to live through a period of stress and sorrow
with another person creates a bond which nothing
seems able to break

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a succession of lessons which
we must lived to be understood

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One secures the gold of the spirit
when he finds himself

-- Claude M. Bristol

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires -
discrepancies in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time,
but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way

-- Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.

There is in the worst of fortunes
the best changes for a happy change
-- Euripides

Happiness isn't about what happens to us -
it's about how we perceive what happens to us.
It's the knack of finding a positive for every negative,
and viewing a setback as a challenge.
If we can just stop wishing for what we don't have,
and start enjoying what we do have, our lives
can be richer; more fulfilled - and happier.
The time to be happy is now

-- Lynn Peters

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are small matter compared to what lies
within us

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in
which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to
say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the
next thing that comes along."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt, "You Learn by Living," 1960

Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount
  importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the
  circumstances you might encounter.

  -- Ayn Rand, novelist/philosopher, from "Ayn Rand: a sense of life" by
  Michael Paxton

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and
  more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as
  well as good judgement.

  -- Charles W. Eliot
 

  Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

  -- Seneca

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look
  for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in
  favor of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go
  on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

  -- Anthony Trollope, from his novel "Can You Forgive Her?,"

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
  mother.

  -- Theodore Hesburgh, Readers Digest, January 1963

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.
We  all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time
share a general responsibility for all humanity

-- Marie Curie, Nobel prize-winning physical chemist

An executive was asked what her formula for success was.
"It's very simple," she said. "Just ten simple two letter words :
'If it is to be, it is up to me' ."

The great pianist and composer, Ignacy Paderewski, was once asked by an admirer
how he had reached such a state of perfection in his field.
It must have involved a lot of patience, the admirer remarked.
"Everyone has patience," said Paderewski.
"I learned to use mine."

The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level,
are master users of stories and symbols

-- Tom Peters

You make more friends by becoming interested in other people than
by trying to interest other people in yourself

-- Dale Carnegie

There are two things to aim at in life :
first, to get what you want; and
after that to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of people achieve the second

-- Logan Pearsall Smith

Forget the past.
Noone BECOMES successful IN the past

Love looks through a telescope;
envy through a microscope

-- Josh Billings

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground,
put some responsibility on their shoulders

-- Abigail Van Buren

The next time you begin to think you are all powerful,
try ordering someone else's dog around

Leadership is the ability to get people to
do what they don't want to do and like it

-- Harry Truman

If you are standing upright,
don't worry if your shadow is crooked

Do.
You don't strive for sameness,
you strive for balance

-- Bear Bryant

Character is power

-- Booker T. Washington

Temper gets you into trouble.
Pride keeps you there.

There is a four word formula for success that applies equally
well to organizations or individuals:
Make yourself more useful

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention

Honesty in little things is no little thing

To excel is to reach your own highest dream.
But you must also help others, where and when you can,
to reach theirs.
Personal gains is empty if you do not feel you have
positively touched another's life

-- Barbara Walters

If you have an important point to make,
don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once.
Then comeback and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack!

-- Winston Churchill

Responsibility gravitate to the person who can shoulder them;
power flows to the one who knows how to use it

Anyone who angers you conquers you

-- Sister Kenny

Even on the most exalted throne in the world,
you are only sitting on your own bottom

-- Montaigne

Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions.
They are easier to handle than dumb mistakes
 

You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
-- Charles Buxton

Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
-- Mahatma Gandhi

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes 
and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom 
and knowledge. 
--Igor Stravinsky

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, 
and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.
-- Nancy Parker Brummett

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
-- Dolly Parton

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, 
a tough mind and a tender heart.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, 
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. 
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. 
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller (Blinded and deafened by a childhood illness, 
Helen Keller graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, and went on 
to distinguish herself as an author, lecturer and administrator. 
Her life story was portrayed in the movie, The Miracle Worker. )

 If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, 
you have learned how to live."
-­ Lin Yutang

Grant, Lord, that we might overcome our enemies by transforming them into friends. 
Make them and make us conscious of those deep inward reaches whereby 
every heart is rooted in our world's deep common life.
-- Jewish Prayer

Great works are performed not by strength but by perserverance.
-- Samuel Johnson

Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like 
a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year 
we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy 
of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.
-- Mort Crim, Second Thoughts

Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.
-- Unknown

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, 
in a very restricted circle of their potential being. 
They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, 
and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, 
out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving 
only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much
greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. 
-- William James

Only complain to someone who can do something about it. . . . 
Effective complaining helps keep your conversations on the positive side of the street. 
With some people you may find you have nothing to talk about.
-- John-Rogers and Peter McWilliams, 
"You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought"

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! 
Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.
-- Alexandr Pushkin

To be somebody, you must last.
-- Ruth Gordon

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
-- John Wooden

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
-- Marie Curie

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
-- Charles A Beard

All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them.
-- Walt Disney

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, 
for that determines our success or failure.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

A smile is a curve that sets a lot of things straight.
-- Unknown

Care for the small creatures and all else follows.
-- sign at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo

Through perseverance many people win success out of 
what seemed destined to be certain failure.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Should we feel at times disheartened and discouraged, a confiding thought, 
a simple movement of heart towards God will renew our powers. 
Whatever He may demand of us, He will give us at the moment the strength 
and the courage that we need.
-- Francois de la Mothe Fenelon (excerpt from Daily Strengths for Daily Needs 
by Mary W. Tileston & Claudia Karabaic Sargent)

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. 
And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, 
to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, 
ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, 
or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child.
-- Dennis Prager, Happiness is a Serious Problem

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. 
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. 
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, 
but with what it is still possible for you to do.
-- Pope John XXIII

Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
-- Unknown

One of the things that makes God different from people is 
that God is always available to listen.
-- Rabbi David Wolpe

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.
-- W.J. Camero

Today I live in the quiet, joyous expectation of good.
-- Ernest Holmen

Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come shining through.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep believing
The dream that you wish will come true.
-- Cinderella

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything 
but the very best you will very often get it.
--W. Somerset Maugham

The timid and fearful first failures dismay,
but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.
He values his failures as lessons that teach
The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
-- Edgar A. Guest

 It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . 
We're all entitled to our own opinions. 
But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts.
-- Mort Crim

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, 
different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different 
that we cannot get along with one another. 
If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
-- J. Martin Kohe

Prayer changes things.

 If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom 
and man grow to greater dignity as a human being -- we can do it.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. 
Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
-- Mark Twain

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. 
Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.
-- Psalm 27: 13-14

Trusting your intuition means tuning in as deeply as you can to the energy you feel, 
following that energy moment to moment, trusting that it will lead you 
where you want to go and bring you everything you desire.
-- Shakti Gawain

When your bow is broken and your last arrow spent, then shoot, 
shoot with your whole heart.
-- Zen Saying

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
-- A. J. Muste

A wise old owl sat upon an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke;
The less he spoke the more he heard;
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?
-- Edward Hersey Richards

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
-- Arabian proverb

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
-- Charlotte Bronte

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
-- Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
-- Henrik Ibsen

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
-- Reggie Jackson

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
-- Clive James

A great many people think they are thinking when 
they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
-- William James

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs least.
-- Thomas Jefferson

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, 
you are an exceptionally good liar.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
-- Pope John XXIII

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
-- John Junor

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
-- Franz Kafka

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
-- Edward Keating

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
-- Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; 
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
-- Helen Keller

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
-- John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, 
it cannot save the few who are rich.
-- John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible 
will make violent revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history 
of the world - or to make it the last.
- - John F. Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; 
ask what you can do for your country.
-- John F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-- Robert F. Kennedy

In the long run we are all dead.
-- John Maynard Keynes

Politicians are the same all over. 
They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
-- Nikita Khruschev

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, 
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-- Rudyard Kipling

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
-- Henry Kissinger

Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
-- Ernie Kovacs

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
-- Jonathan Kozol

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. 
They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
-- Robert Keith Leavitt

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
-- Leon Lederman

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
-- Robert E. Lee

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, 
for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.
-- Robert E. Lee

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
-- Robert E. Lee

There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never 
seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, 
I wish that I owned every slave in the South, 
for I would free them all to avoid this war.
-- Robert E. Lee

It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
-- Nikolai Lenin

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, 
and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
-- Bernard Levin

Nearly all men can stand adversity, 
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, 
I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
-- Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, 
and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, 
and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
-- Walter Lippmann

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
-- John Locke

Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
-- Vince Lombardi

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
-- Joe Louis

In war there is no substitute for victory.
-- General Douglas MacArthur

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death 
than animals that know nothing.
-- Maurice Maeterlinck

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
-- Mao Zedong

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
-- Donald R. Perry Marquis

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
-- Karl Marx

Religion... is the opium of the masses.
-- Karl Marx

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, 
but after a while he gets to know something.
-- Wilson Mizner

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; 
but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
-- Wilson Mizner

Obstacles are those frightful things you see 
when you take your eyes off the goal.
-- Hannah More

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
-- John Morley

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised 
if its opponents blame it for the drought.
-- Dwight Morrow

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.
-- Stephen Morrissey

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
-- Edward R. Murrow

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, 
have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living 
in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
-- Gunnar Myrdal

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
-- Ron Nesen

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
-- Flower A. Newhouse

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors 
and furniture polish is made from real lemons...
-- Alfred E. Newman

One should dies proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

A ship is always referred to as "she" because
it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
-- Chester Nimitz

I would have made a good pope.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal.
-- Richard Nixon

Laws were made to be broken.
-- Christopher North