LIFE, CHARACTER, FUTURE, INTEGRITY AND HAPPINESS |
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- The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.-W.M. Lewis
- It is vital that people "count their blessings" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.-Abraham Maslow
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.-Samuel Johnson
- Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-Abraham Lincoln
- He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.-Thomas Fuller
- He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.-Epictetus
- The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?-Pablo Casals
- The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.-Paul Scherer It’s important the people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for.-Mary H. Waldrip
- You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.-Rosalynn Carter
- The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.-Anonymous
- Are you humbly grateful? Or grumbly hateful?-Pastor Roland Smith
- People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.-Abigail Van Buren
- If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.-Mary Pickford
- He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.-Miguel de Cervantes
- All beginnings require that you unlock a new door.-Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav
- The right time to show your good character is when you are pestered by somebody weaker than you.-Buddha
- Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.-Ray Kroc
- Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.-Mary Tyler Moore
- If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.-Mother Teresa
- Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
- One can acquire everything in solitude--except character.-Henri Stendhal
- When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.-Confucius
- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.-Charles A. Beard
- Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.-William James
- Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.-Ambrose Redmoon
- In the pursuit of happiness, the difficulty lies in knowing when you have caught up.-R.H. Grenville
- Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.-William A. Ward
- Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.-Marian Wright Edelman
- Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin
- Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.-Ralph Charell
- Don't cross the stream to look for water.-Swedish Proverb
- Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.-T.S. Eliot
- Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.-Randolph Bourne
- If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.-Robert Hillyer
- The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.-Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.-Pamela Vault Starr
- Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing.-Michael Iapoce
- The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.-Thomas Szasz
- Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.-Hannah More
- Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.-Lawrence J. Peter
- One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.-Elbert Hubbard
- Nothing makes you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.-Zora Neale Hurston
- A bend in the road is not the end of the road...unless you fail to make the turn.-Unknown
- The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either--but right through every human heart.-Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn
- One man with courage makes a majority.-Andrew Jackson
- Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.-Winston Churchill
- Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.-Ruth E. Renkel
- The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.-Aiden Nowlan
- You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.-Wayne Gretzky
- Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.-William Saroyan
- I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.-Robert Brault
- Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.-Charles Dickens
- Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.-Margaret Lee Runbeck
- If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear.-Glenn Clark
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.-Edith Wharton
- Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.-Nicholas Murray Butler
- When all is said and done, more is said than done.-Lou Holtz
- To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.-Bertrand Russell
- The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.-Chinese Proverb
- The best way to predict your future is to create it.-Unknown
- Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.-John Quincy Adams
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.-Benjamin Franklin
- When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.-Franklin D. Roosevelt
- I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.-Thomas Jefferson
- The more a man knows, the more he forgives.-Confucius
- Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier.-Mother Teresa
- Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set on fire.-George Matthew Adams
- Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.-Oprah Winfrey
- The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.-Chinese Proverb
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.-Margaret Mead -Sir Francis Bacon
- A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.-Dutch proverb
- Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.-Frank Tyger
- Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.-Richard Bach
- Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.-Sally Koch
- Hope is like a road in the country; there wasn’t ever a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.-Lin Yutang
- It isn’t hard to be good from time to time. What’s tough is being good every day.-Willie Mays
- Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.-Maxim Gorky
- Each day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.-Charles Swindoll
- He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.-Horace
- Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.-Sam Ewing
- It’s the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it’s the little differences that make them interesting.-Todd Ruthman
- All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it.-Syrus
- Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.-Soren Kierkegaard
- Days are scrolls: write on them only what you want remembered.-Bchya Ibn Pakuda
- No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.-Althea Gibson
- Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.-Emily Post