mr smiths quotations for class year 2011-12
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Knowledge and understanding begin with doubt. Following the scientific method in
approaching a problem will inevitably bring you closer to the truth than any other
approach. It is possible to be a scientist and still to be a romantic. The two are not
mutually exclusive. Most of the great scientists were dreamers as well, passionate
about science and about lifes many mysteries that do not lend themselves to
scientific inquiry.
Nothing is more important in life than family and friends; yet in the pursuit of the
things we call success in life, we often overlook and neglect the very friendships thatwe should work hardest to preserve. When life-threatening events occur, it is
amazing how this vision burns brightly through. Why it is so hard to see remains a
mystery. Hopefully you will realize it before some crisis brings it to your attention.
There are many heroes from the past and from the present. You should look early to
find men and women who inspire your dreams. For starters read biography about
some of the men and women who are listed on these pages. Their wisdom will
astound and excite you.
Finally I end with some thoughts about listening. You learn more when you listen. You
fabricate and maintain good friendships by being willing to listen. It is a skill that is
vastly underrated in our society, and one that you would all do well to practice. In our
fast paced society, we often think what we have to say or do is more important than
taking the time to listen to someone, but nothing could be farther from the truth.
Ability
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer
than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Elbert Hubbard
They are able because they think they are able.
Vergil
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
Accuracy
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Charles Simmons
Achievement
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one
step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Samuel Johnson
Death comes to all
But great achievements build a monument
Which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Georg Fabricius
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 HeatterLet us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife
smiles, and lets it go at that.
James Matthew Barrie
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it
simply because someone else is not sure of you.
Stewart E. White
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies
clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get
involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing
you are working to make things better.
-Pauline R. Kezer
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.
Miguel de Cervantes
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Jawaharlal NehruThe actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination
to make the right things happen.
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Peter Marshall
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute
courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in
the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting
out.
Theodore Roosevelt
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions,promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation,
may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Daniel Webster
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is
shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others,
or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each
other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a
current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be
stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be
happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the
human frame.
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Mahatma Gandhi
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction
we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it,but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious
instruments of the men of thought.Heinrich Heine
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself
than either thought or theory.
William Wordsworth
Its not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the
mosquito is swatted
Marie OConner
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face and then
reach for the stars.
-Joan L Curcio
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Ghandi
Lose the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.
Corita Kent
Appearance
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances
under coarse wool.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in
general take to be happy.
Seneca
You are only what you are when no one is looking.
Robert C. Edwards
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which
seems.
Robert Southey
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a
duck, I call that bird a duck.
Richard Cardinal CushingThe world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as
necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster
Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.
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Elias Root Beadle
The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
William Shakespeare
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminalno one will see it. But when a
button is missingeveryone sees that.
Erich M. Remarque
Art
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it coexists.
It expresses the truth about the existence regardless of whether his truth serves or
hinders the survival purpose of a given society. All great art is revolutionary because
it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of various transitory
forms of human society. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of
things, but their inward significance.
-Aristotle(384-322 BC)
Beauty
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Happily may I walk
May it be beautiful before me
May it be beautiful behind me
May it be beautiful below me
May it be beautiful above me
May it be beautiful all around me
In beauty it is finished.
Navajo prayer
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Democracy
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-George Jean Nathan
The death of a democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a
slow extinction from apathy.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins.In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I
wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up
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because i was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left
to speak up.
-Martin Niemoeller.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good
evidence either way.
-Bertrand Russell
To correct the evils great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from
positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest
functions of civilization.-Abraham Lincoln.
But it is not by the consolation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution
that good government is effected.
-Thomas Jefferson
I do not dislike but I certainly have no especial respect or admiration for and no trust
in, the typical big moneyed men of my country. I do not regard them as furnishing
sound opinion as respects either foreign or domestic business.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.
-Thomas Jefferson (1783-1826)
Desire
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has
within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helv tius
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and
by definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts
Desire is the essence of a man.
Benedict Spinoza
Diligence
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin Franklin
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
Every noble work is at first impossible. Thomas Carlyle
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill Great works are performed, not by
strength, but perseverance.
Samuel Johnson
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by
diligence and labor.
Menander of Athens
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
William Shakespeare
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I
did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect hiswork must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing
till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Discovery
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many
minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail but when I look at the
subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
Alexander Graham Bell
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient
attention, than to any other talent.
Isaac Newton
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness,
and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
What is wanted is not the will to believe but the wish to find out, which is the exact
opposite.
Bertrand Russell
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles H. Parkhurst
Doubt
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Mizner
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. Henry David Thoreau
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things
you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt.
William Shakespeare
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
George Iles
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt enters.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMen become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in
proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H. L. Mencken
Education
-Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover
what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what
the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.
-Albert Einstein
-It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really
need college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal
arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think
something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
-Albert Einstein
-Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived a valuable gift and not as
hard duty
-Albert Einstein
-The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole
educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is
inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship material success as a
preparation for his future career.
-Albert Einstein
Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn the
liberating influence of beauty for your own personal joy and for the profit of the
community to which your later work will belong.
-Albert Einstein
The aim of an education must be the training of independently acting and thinking
individuals who, however, see the service to the community as their highest life
achievement.
-Albert EinsteinThe school should always have as its aim that the young person leaves it as a
harmonious personality, not as a specialist.
-Albert Einstein
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and
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teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal
any part of what one has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction of
academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge
among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
-Albert Einstein
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw
that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous
encroachments on the public liberty.
James Madison
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave.
Henry Peter Brougham
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him
for a lifetime.
Chinese Proverb
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack
of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a
community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer ofthe conditions of menthe balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
Elbert Hubbard
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Education is a social process Education is growthEducation is not a preparation
for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will
vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson
Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
Will Durant
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.-H.G. Wells
Education is the transmission of civilization
-Will and Aiel Durant
Energy
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Hosea Ballou
The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an
invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the
distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas Fuller
Example
I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good
example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Example is not the main thing in lifeit is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
Morell
Kids learn more from example than anything you say. Im convinced they learn very
early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
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-Jane Pauly
Experience
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for
experience.
George Bernard Shaw
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Patrick Henry
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
Abraham Lincoln
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must
Man be of learning from experience!
George Bernard Shaw
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Saunders Law
Facts
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof
which it furnishes.
Claude Bernard
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived
notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall
learn nothing.
Thomas Huxley
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more
remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
William C. Redfield
We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second time
what we said the first time.
F. Marion Smith
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it
can't be right.
Bernard M. BaruchFailure
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Failures are divided into two classesthose who thought and never did, and those
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who did and never thought.
John Charles Salak
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making
excuses.
George Washington CarverHe's no failure. He's not dead yet.
William Lloyd George
Force
The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
Lajos Kossuth
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince
others by force that it is right.
Woodrow Wilson
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
Blaise Pascal
Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield
Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have
to say that for the present, it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may
intimidate the human race into bring order into its international affairs which, without
the pressure of fear, it would not do.
-Albert Einstein.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our
technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our
executioner.
-General Omar Bradley.
Freedom of Speech
Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse
dies in a day, but the denial stays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the
race.
Charles Bradlaugh
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such
thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Benjamin Franklin
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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions,
which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health; and
where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech
was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to
encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
Woodrow Wilson
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion;and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still
-John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)
The only freedom deserving the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own
way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs. . . Mankind are greater
gainers by suffering each other to live as seems greater good to themselves, than by
compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.
-John Stuart Mill
False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a
salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards
error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
-Charles Darwin(1809-1882)
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their
presentation is provided or available.
-Thomas Mann
The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the
competition of the market. . . We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to
check the expression that we loathe.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Freedom of the press
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without
being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others,
and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
Samuel Johnson
Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the
liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights.
Junius
The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. Adlai E. Stevenson
Friendship
Never Explainyour Friends do not need it and your Enemies will not believe you
anyway.
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Elbert Hubbard
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon
find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. Mencius
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and
thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with a part of another:
people are friends in spots.
George Santayana
People change and forget to tell each other.
Lilian Hellman
Genius
No great genius is without an admixture of madness.
Aristotle
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Christopher Quill
It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows commonplace as to the rest of
us.
James Russell Lowell
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedentthe power to do the right thing
the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John Watson Foster
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart
is true for all menthat is genius.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the
dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the
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happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex
Happiness
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and
something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in thebosom of my familypublic employment contributes neither to advantage nor
happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
Thomas Jefferson
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
To fill the hourthat is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I discovered I always have choices and sometimes its only a choice of attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
When I am all hassled about something, I always ask myself what difference it will
make in the evolution of the human species in the next ten million years, and that
question always helps me to get back my perspective.
Anne Wilson Schaef
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to
work and ask the most and best of everybody else. Dont let your special character
and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truthDont let that
get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
-Meryl Streep
Hatred
When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
Franois de La Rochefoucauld
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andr Gide
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
Lord ByronNational hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most
violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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Henry Ward Beecher
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
Booker T. Washington
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent
to them; that's the essence of inhumanity
-George Bernard Shaw
HeartThe heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
Jacques Bnigne Bossuel
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced
to obey it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin
Two things are bad for the heartrunning up stairs and running down people.
Bernard M. Baruch
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Lord Byron
Humor
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between
taking ones work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative and
the second is disastrous.
-Margot Fonteyn
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.
Josh Billings
Ideas
Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and
happiness. Morris Leopold Ernst
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more
dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
John H. Vincent
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done
about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need
be, die for it.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose
time has come.
Victor Hugo
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where
they sprung up. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
-Chinese Proverb
Individuality
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
John Stuart Mill
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music, which he hears, however measured or
far away.
Henry David Thoreau
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
John Stuart Mill
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger, which
threatens human nature, is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses
and preferences.
John Stuart Mill
Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
James Fenimore Cooper
Joy
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot
be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be
articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and
dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
Michel de Montaigne
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Elbert Hubbard
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Judgment
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply
light and not heat. Woodrow Wilson
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are
concerned.
First Duke of Wellington
In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.
Joseph Cannon
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him
by his heart.
Russian Proverb
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we
have done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
Dagobert D. Runes
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then
better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
-Seneca(4BC-AD 65)
Kindness
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free
people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of
kindness and of love. William Wordsworth
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into
smiles.
Washington Irving
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom
you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
If you havent forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Learning
Since we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a littleabout everything.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he
progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
George Bernard Shaw
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher
of others.
Confucius
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men learn while they teach.
Seneca
The brighter you are the more you have to learn.
Don Herold
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and
strike it merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
He who adds not to his learning diminishes it.
The Talmud
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking
it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face . . . It is one of
the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
-Edward P. Morgan
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply
the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
-Aldous Huxley
Logic
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
John Locke
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and
compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is
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compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their
argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
William E Gladstone
Mind
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
Christian Nestell Bovee
The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are
incompetents in asylums, who can't, and those in cemeteries.
Everett M. Dirksen
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in
working order.
John Quincy Adams
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but
grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Henry Ward Beecher
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld
I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their
understanding.
Franois de La Rochefoucauld
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
-Dale Carnegie.
Music
I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights and you have yours. But sorrow,
gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music
is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality
H.A. Overstreet
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.
George Szell
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there ismeaning to life after all.
Helmut Walcha
Music owes as much to Bach as religion does to its founder
Robert Schumann
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I occasionally play works by contemporary composers for two reasons. First to
discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how
much I appreciate Beethoven.
Jascha Heifetz
Life cant be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and
listen to them for ten years.
William F. Buckley
Mozart is the human incantation of the divine force of creation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe notes I handle no better than many pianists, but the pauses between the notes
ah, that is where the art resides!
Arthur Schnabel
Where words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine
Without music life would be a mistake
Friedrich Nietsche
Chamber musica conversation between friends
Catherine Drinker Bowen
Originality
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.
Voltaire
What a good thing Adam hadwhen he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said
it before.
Mark Twain
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original
man; he believes for himself, not for another.
Thomas Carlyle
No bird has ever uttered note
That was not in some first bird's throat;
Since Eden's freshness and man's fall
No rose has been original.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good.
Nietzsche
Passion
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one,through their excess.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be
useless.
Honor de Balzac
Act nothing in furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perception
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind isadequate perception of the world.
Hans Margolius
The heart has eyes, which the brain knows nothing of.
Charles H. Parkhurst
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
-Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519)
Perseverance
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within,
no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
Kin Hubbard
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be
overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
Plutarch
No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to
one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley
Power
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns
and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. They
are necessary symbols. They protect what we cherish. But they are witness to human
folly.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human
hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James MadisonThere is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca
The price of greatness is responsibility.
-Winston Churchill
Privacy
Gentlemen do not read each other's mail.
Henry L. Stimson
Privacy is the right to be alonethe most comprehensive of rights, and the right
most valued by civilized man. Louis D. Brandeis
Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to
be increasingly without privacymembers of a naked society and denizens of a
goldfish bowl.
Edward V. Long
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
Progress
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid
order.
-Alfred North Whitehead
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly
become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Chinese Proverb
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to
adapt the world to himtherefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Samuel Butler
Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything. . . or
nothing.
Lady Astor
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.Margaret Drabble
It is the nature of man as he grows older. . . to protest against change, particularly
change for the better.
-John Steinbeck
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To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the
only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith
We trained hard. . . but every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we
would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new
situation by reorganizing. . . and a wonderful method it can be for creating the
illusion of progress while producing inefficiency and demoralization.
-Petronius (d. AD 66)
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhileachievement.
_Henry Ford
Question
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Steinmetz
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith
in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly
can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Reality
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru
I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Reason
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the
world.
William Allen White
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to
persecute those who do reason.
Voltaire
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
Thomas JeffersonMan has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself
and to know his relation to the universehe has no otherand that instrument is
reason.
Leo Tolstoi
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Reason can in general do more than blind force.
Gallus
He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares
not reason is a slave.
William Drummond
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinMost of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing
as we already do.
James Robinson
Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's.
Welsh Proverb
Resolution
The block of granite, which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a
stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Benjamin Franklin
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
Philip Sidney
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down
and lift mankind a little higher.
-Henry VanDyke
Science
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them
see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation
grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck
Science is simply common sense at its bestthat is, rigidly accurate in observation,
and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it hasovercome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.
Albert Einstein
Theory
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an
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ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
Cadman
I never once made a discovery I speak without exaggeration that I have
constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light
Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.
Thomas A. Edison
A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.Ed Howe
In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
Thomas Huxley
Thought
To achieve, you need thought. . . You have to know what you are doing and thats
real power.
Ayn Rand
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
Christian Nestell Bovee
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a
perpetual morning.
Henry David Thoreau
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where
your thoughts take you.
James Allen
Truth
The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.
James Russell Lowell
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are mosteconomical in its use.
Mark Twain
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
Otto von Bismarck
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her
constant companion is Humility.
Charles Caleb Colton
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she
scratches her finger. William Cullen Bryant
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to
possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and
is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to
remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Sam Rayburn
A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really
is.
-Jack Miner
Understanding
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot
about something and not really understand it.
Charles F. Kettering
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of
knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his
not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by
those found by others.
-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the
disputants had dared to define their terms.
-Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Vision
Where there is no vision a people perish.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You see things and you say "Why?" but I dream things that never were and I say
"Why not?"
George Bernard ShawVision: the art of seeing things invisible.
Jonathan Swift
Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.
Louis L. Mann
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.
Edward H. Harriman
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-Lauren Bacall
Wisdom
The great thing about getting older is that you dont lose all the other ages youve
been
Madeline LEngle
The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
Nicolas Boileau-Despr aux
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the
height of wisdom in the next.
John Stuart Mill
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. John Kenneth Galbraith
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the
old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man
had learned in seven years.
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Mark Twain
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Euripides
Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it
comes late.
Felix Frankfurter
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Franois de La Rochefoucauld
Ten commandments of good listening:
1. STOP TALKING: You cannot listen if you are talking. POLONIUS [Hamlet]: "Give
every man thine ear, but few thv voice. "
2. PUT THE TALKER AT EASE:
Help him or her feel that he or she is free to talk. This is often called a permissive
environment.
3. SHOW THE TALKER THAT YOU WANT TO LISTEN:
Look and act interested. Do not read your mail while he talks.
Listen to understand rather than to oppose.
4. REMOVE DISTRACTIONS:
Don 't doodle, tap, or shuffle papers.
Will it be quieter if you shut the door?
Turn off the television.
5. EMPATHIZE WITH THE TALKER:
Try to put yourself in his place so that you can see his or her point of view.
6. BE PATIENT:
Allow plenty of time. Do not interrupt.
Don 't start for the door or walk away.
7. HOLD YOUR TEMPER:
An angry listener gets the wrong meaning from words.
8. GO EASY ON ARGUMENT AND CRITICISM:
This puts the speaker on the defensive. He or she may "clam up" or get angry.
Don 't argue; even if you win, you lose.
9. ASK QUESTIONS: This encourages the speaker and shows you are listening. It helps
to develop points further.
10. STOP TALKING:
This is first and last, because all other commandments depend on it.
You just can't do a good listening job while you are talking.
Nature gave man two ears but only one tongue, which is a gentle hint that he should
listen more than he talks.
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How to live your life (Randy Pausch in The Last Lecture.
Dream Big
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Earnest is better than Hip-Fashion is unimportant. Clothes dont make a person.
You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminalno one will see it. But
when a button is missingeveryone sees that.
Erich M. Remarque
Raising the White Flag-dont sweat the small stuff. Capitulating on things that really
make no difference will prevent you from destroying valued relationships.
Make Contracts with others to get what you both want.
Dont complain, just work harder.
When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you
get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from
knowing you are working to make things better.
-Pauline R. Kezer
Treat the disease and not the symptom.
Dont obsess over what people think.
To work well in groups
Meet people properly
Find things you have in common
Try for optimal meeting conditions
Let everyone talk
Check egos at the door
Praise each other
Phrase alternatives as questions
Look for the best in everybody
Watch what they do, not what they say
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke
Dance with the one who brung you.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity Seneca
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The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
Whether you think you can or cant youre right
They are able because they think they are able.
Vergil
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play
Be the first penguin
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face and
then reach for the stars.-Joan L Curcio
Get peoples attention
The lost art of thank-you notes
Loyalty is a two-way street
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Friday night solution-work harder
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
Show Gratitude
Send out thin mints
All you have is what you bring with you
Do what you can with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
A Bad Apology is worse than no apology
Tell the truth
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if
she scratches her finger.
William Cullen Bryant
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Charles Simmons
We should keep so close to facts that we never have to remember the second
time what we said the first time.
F. Marion Smith
No job is beneath you
Never give upThere is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from
within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of
purpose.
Kin Hubbard
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Be a communitarian
The aim of an education must be the training of independently acting and
thinking individuals who, however, see the service to the community as their
highest life achievement.
-Albert Einstein
All you have to do is ask
Make a Decision: Tigger or Eeyore
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Elbert HubbardI discovered I always have choices and sometimes its only a choice of
attitude.
Judith M. Knowlton
Be optimistic but realistic
Surround yourself with friends, family and faith
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