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“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter which fork you use.” ― Emily Post

“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”― Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is fourteen days.”― Totie Fields

“The ultimate measure of aman is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where hestands at times of challengeand controversy.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)

“An idea can turn to dust or magic depending on the talent that rubs against it.” William Bernbach (1911–1982)

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”― John Barrymore

“Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...initially scared me to death.”― Betty Bender

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~Confucius

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it. ~Robert Brault

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“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.”― Will Durant

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles W. Eliot

“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” ― Katherine Mansfield

“It’s surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.” ― Barbara Kingsolver

“Change is inevitable―except from a vending machine.”― Robert C. Gallagher

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.” ― Calvin Coolidge

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.” ― Jennifer Yane

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“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
~Hal Borland

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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.~ Ruth Gordon

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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.~ Grace Hansen

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Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.

~ Author Unknown ~

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“Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare.” Proverbs 20:13

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“Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.” William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
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“The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.” Swedish Proverb
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“I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.” Charles C. Krulak (1942 – ) 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) American writer

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“Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.” B.C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish journalist and founder of Forbes Magazine

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“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” Chinese proverb
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“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” Lance Armstrong (1971 – ) American cyclist seven-time Tour de France champion and cancer survivor

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“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris Bueller

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“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."

~G.K. Chesterton

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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

~Bill Vaughan

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Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average... which means, you have met your New Year's resolution. ~Jay Leno

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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

~ Bill Vaughan

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New Year's Day... now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

~Mark Twain

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Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bile-less New Year and leave it at that.

~Judith Crist

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Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

~Anonymous

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May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!

~Joey Adams

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I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

~Anais Nin

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"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas."

~Unknown

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"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

~Oscar Wilde

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"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."

~Benjamin Franklin

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“Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.”

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 – ) American activist founder of the Children's Defense Fund
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” - Benjamin Franklin
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“Men are all alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds that they differ.”

John Baptiste Moliére (1622–1673) French playwright

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“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)

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“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”

Mother Teresa (1910–1997)

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“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

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“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

Ray Bradbury (1920 – ) American writer

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“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.”

Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930)
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“Achievement is talent plus preparation.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963 – ) Canadian journalist
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A Love Story

A Love Story

Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived; Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day It was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left.

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Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island Was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said "Richness, can you take me with you?" Richness answered, "No, I can't. There is a lot of silver in my boat. There Is no place here for you."

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Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. "Vanity, please help me!" "I can't help you Love. You are all wet and Might damage my boat," Vanity answered.

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Sadness was close by so Love asked for help, "Sadness, let me go with you." "Oh....Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself."

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Happiness passed by Love too, but she was so happy that she did not even Hear when Love called her!

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Suddenly there was a voice, "Come Love, I will take you." It was an elder. Love felt so blessed and overjoyed that he even forgot to ask the elder his Name. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way.

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Love realizing how much he owed the elder, asked Knowledge, another elder. "Who helped me?" "It was Time," Knowledge answered. "Time?" asked Love. "But why did Time help me?" Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, "Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is."

-- Author Unknown

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God’s Coffee

God’s Coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together tovisit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned intocomplaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returnedwith a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups-porcelain, plastic,glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite-tellingthem to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "Ifyou noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leavingbehind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want onlythe best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most casesit is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. Whatall of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously wentfor the best cups. And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position insociety are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and thetype of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, We fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!

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“No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early“. – Groucho Marx

“Time stays long enough for those who use it.“ – Leonardo Da Vinci

“He that rises late must trot all day.“ – Benjamin Franklin

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it. Author Unknown

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson

It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about? ~Henry David Thoreau

Never let yesterday use up today. ~Richard H. Nelson

Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real. ~Sara Paddison

The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. ~Carl Sandburg

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. ~Baltasar Gracian

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ~Carl Sandburg

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking. ~Sir John Lubbock

Those who make the worse use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. ~Jean De La Bruyere

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas

Jefferson and Albert Einstein. H. ~Jackson Brown

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that. ~Mark Twain

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted. ~Mary O'Connor

Never fight with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it! General Abraham’s Pig Law If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat. ~Lily Tomlin

Living your life without a plan is like watching television with someone else holding the remote control. ~Peter Turla

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Abraham Lincoln Quote

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves."

Abraham Lincoln

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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience."— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."Dianne Feinstein

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) Scottish writer and physician

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."— Swami Sivananda

"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require."— Edward Elgar

"Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to doa lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing." --B.C. Forbes (1880-1954)

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to." — Bill Vaughan

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."— Joseph Campbell

"Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." Colin L. Powell

"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." Albert Einstein

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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“Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.” Unknown

“Act swiftly and vigorously, without "buts" and "ifs"...” Napoleon Bonaparte

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.” Albert Einstein

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."—A.A. Milne

"If you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?" - Hilda Doolittle

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."—Ayn Rand

"If love is the answer, would you please rephrase the question?"—Lily Tomlin

“One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.” Florence Nightingale

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.” Golda Meir

"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children."—J. Paul Getty

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."—Clarence B. Kelland

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“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing...” Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd president of the United Statesprincipal author of the Declaration of Independence

"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." - Bob Dylan

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." ~ Nelson Mandela

"Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." ~ William Yeats

"When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen."-- Arland Gilbert

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." -- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

"The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success." -- Vauvenargues

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990)

"I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet."-- Persian saying, Ancient

"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible."-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961)

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." -- Margaret Drabble (1939-)

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."-- Helen Keller (1880-1968)

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

"It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones."—Jean Webster

"If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down."-- Mary Pickford (1893-1979)

"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." Charles Du Bos (1882-1939) French literary critic

"Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before." Bonnie Blair (1964 - ) Olympic speed skater U.S. history’s most-decorated winter athlete

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“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” Rumi (1207–1273) Persian poet and philosopher

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.―Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There are three ingredients to the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."—Christopher Morley

“The sleeping fox catches no poultry.” Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American statesman, scientist, writer

"One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection." Madeleine Kunin (1933 – ) Swiss-American diplomat and politician

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience." Ray Bradbury (1920 – )American writer

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American first lady, humanitarian, and UN diplomat

“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 been opened for us.” Helen Keller (1880-1968) American humanitarian,advocate for the deaf and blind

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers (1879–1935) American comedian and actor

“The future will depend on what we do in the present.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) Indian activist

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To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success. Anna Pavlova (1881–1931) Russian ballerina

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. — Jane Austen

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) Scottish industrialist & philanthropist

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States

No one would allow garbage at his table, but many allow it served into their minds. Fulton John Sheen

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. - Matthew 5:6

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~ Lawrence J. Peter

Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day. ~Anonymous

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." ~Greek proverb

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."~ Madeleine L'Engle

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." ~James Thurber

"I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby." Picabo Street (1971 - ) Skier, Olympic gold medalist

All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk. Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-born writer and philosopher

Ronald Reagan Quotes

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose." - Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan

"You cannot make the weak strong by making the strong weak" - Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandment's would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."- Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination." - Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other." - Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program." - Ronald Reagan

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting." - Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." - Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book." - Ronald Reagan

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. - Ronald Reagan

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." - Ronald Reagan

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"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
- Adrian Rogers - American pastor (1931-2005)

Quotes

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, & instant cameras teach patience to its young?~Paul Sweeney, (20th Century)

Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, essayist and philosopher

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. ~Wallace Stegner

It's wonderful to have a beginner's mind. Steve Jobs (1955 – )Co-founder and CEO of Apple

Life can only be understood backwards, but it has to be lived forwards. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.~Christian Nestell Bovee

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight...The truly wise person is color-blind.—Albert Schweitzer

If necessity is the mother of invention, then resourcefulness is the father.~Beulah Louise Henry

Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better. Pat Riley (1945 – ) NBA coach

To undertake is to achieve.~Emily Dickinson

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates (1955 - ) founder and chairman of Microsoft

Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7

The meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)36th president of the United States

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.~ Roderick Thorp

The future doesn't just happen - it's shaped by decisions. ~Paul Tagliabue (1940- ) former NFL Commissioner

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? ~George Eliot