BY THE FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO TOLD IT
ABRAHAM LINCON
BEN FRANKLIN
JOHN F/ROBERT KENNEDY
MARTIN LUTHER KING
THEODORE ROOSEVELT |
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[-Abraham Lincoln
"I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise. "
--Abraham Lincoln
"Only a life lived for others is worth living."
-- Albert Einstein
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-- Albert Einstein
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. "
-- AlbertEinstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- Albert Einstein
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"
--Albert Einstein
"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein
"God does not play dice with the universe."
--Albert Einstein
"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
--Albert Einstein
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
--Albert Einstein
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
--Albert Einstein
"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
--Albert Einstein
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science"
--Albert Einstein
"Watch the stars, and from them learn.
--Albert Einstein
"Gravitation can not be held resposible for people falling in love"
--Albert Einstein
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
--Albert Einstein
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. "
--Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. "
--Albert Einstein
"I will prepare, and some day my chance will come. "
--Abraham Lincoln
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm"
--Abraham Lincoln
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[-Benjamin Franklin
"I haven't failed, I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
--Ben Franklin
"Energy and persistence conquer all thing. "
--Ben Franklin
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine. "
--Ben Franklin
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Ben Franklin
"I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
--Ben Franklin
"I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity."
--Ben Franklin
"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect."
--Ben Franklin
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of."
--Ben Franklin
"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
--Ben Franklin
"He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face."
--Ben Franklin
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
--Ben Franklin
"To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible."
--Ben Franklin
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade."
--Ben Franklin
"Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
--Ben Franklin
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
--Ben Franklin
"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
--Ben Franklin
"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
--Ben Franklin
"Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other."
--Ben Franklin
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[-John F. Kennedy / Robert Kennedy
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "
-- John F. Kennedy
"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. "
-- John F. Kennedy
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. "
-- John F. Kennedy
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
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[-Martin Luther King
"The old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. "
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The time is always right to do what is right. "
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who "
perpetrates it.
--Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr.
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[-Theodore Roosevelt
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt
"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. "
-- Theodore Roosevelt
POEMS:
MISC. QUOTES
STATE OF MIND
ATTITUDES
WHAT IS SUCCESS
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[-Misc. Quotes
There is never a wrong time to do the right thing
--Rush Limbaugh
They who feel no shame in doing what is obviously wrong , are the most shameful of all.
--Author Unknown
We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.
--Roger Crawford
Being challenged in life is enevitable, being defeated is optional
--Roger Crawford
"Your thoughts; they become words.
your words; they become actions.
your actions; they become habits.
your habits; they become character.
your character; it becomes your destiny."
--Unknown
"No one can make you inferior without your consent."
--Unknown
"If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain."
--Unknown
"The past is history,
The future is a mystery
and now is a gift.
That's why we call it the present."
--Unknown
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." --Marcus Garvey
"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact
proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
--Mohandas Gandhi
"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."
--Robert M. Pirsig
"Life is like a grindstone - whether it grinds you down or polishes
you up depends on what you're made of."
--Unknown
"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. "Indeed, it's the only thing that has."
--Margaret Meade
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it "
--Voltaire
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told
that sorrow knows how to swim."
--Ann Landers
"Gray hair is God's graffiti."
--Bill Cosby
"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. "
-- Titus Livius
"From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. One might perhaps answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. "
-- Machiavelli
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. "
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion. "
--Unknown
"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. -"
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. "
--Anthony Robbins
"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten"
--Anthony Robbins
"The past does not equal the future. "
--Anthony Robbins
"All people have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory."
--motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece
"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
--Carl W. Buechner--
"When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we think, will come about."
--Maharishi Mahesh Yogi--
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[-STATE OF MIND
If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't!
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't,
It's almost certain you won't.
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If you think you'll lose, you're lost;
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind!
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If you think you're outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself
Before you 'll ever win the prize.
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Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the person who thinks he can!
-- Author Unknown
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[-ATTITUDE
The Longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company� a church� a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past� we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that is our attitude�
I am convinced that life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
And so it is with you� we are in charge of our ATTITUDES.
Charles Swindoll
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[-WHAT IS SUCCESS?
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
