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The future comes one day at a time. -- Dean Acheson

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. -- Erma Bombeck

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. -- Anonymous

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

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.---John Andrew Holmes

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.---William H. Walton

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.--- John Maxwell

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. --- George F. Tilton

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.--- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. --- Ernest Hemingway

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions." --- Martin Luther

"Memory serves wise commanders." --- Tz'u-hsi, 638 AD

"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." --- Unknown

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." --- Albert Schweitzer

Heaven goes by favor, if it went by merit, you would stay out, and your dog would go in.....Mark Twain

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said..... Unknown

Knowledge is vain and fruitless which is not reduced to practice...... Matthew Henry

A groan is a matter about which there is no hypocrisy.....Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability..... John Perry

Coincidences are spiritual puns.... G. K. Chesterton

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.... Walter Winchell

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.....Mignon McLaughlin

Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world; a prescription often given, too rarely taken....Karl Menninger

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character....Peter Devries

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people, who see eye to eye, keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting their friends. - Homer

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be a fountian, not a drain. - Rex Hudler

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. - B.B. King

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are portals of discovery. - James Joyce

Our ancestors all came over to America in different boats, but we are all in the same boat now. If one part of the boat starts to sink, the whole boat will go down. -Ben Carson

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.-Stephen W. Comiskey

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin

Thinking of friends and their worth is often enough to drive away an army of fears, regrets and envies.- William Shakespeare

Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.-Marabel Morgan

There was never a night or problem that could defeat sunrise or hope. - Bern Williams

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.-Life's Little Instruction Book

The spirit of a man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than it's wealth.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Perseverance

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe gold ear,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.

It is not just as we take it,
This mystical world of ours,
Life's field will yield as we make it
A harvest of horns or of flowers.


Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else. -Eleanor Roosevelt

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. -Goldsmith

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. -Abigail Adams

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it, one cannot be friends with anyone else .-Eleanor Roosevelt

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them
-Abraham Lincoln

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. -Abraham Lincoln

Try not to be a man of success, but rather a man of value. - Albert Einstein

Character is much easier kept than recovered. - Thomas Paine

Attitudes are contagious. Do you want people around you to catch yours? - Bob Moawad

Where love is, God is - Leo Tolstoy

Every person you meet knows something you don't; learn from them. - unknown

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that you better know something. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

-John XXIII (1881-1963) Italian-born pope-

Pray to God and say the lines.

-Bette Davis, US film star. (Advice to the actress Celeste Holm)-

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

-Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) US novelist and writer.-

My fellow citizens, the President is dead, but the Government lives and God Omnipotent reigns.

-James A. Garfield (1831-81) US statesman.(following the assassination of Pres. Lincoln.)-

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.- Bussy-Rabutin

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.-George Washington-

Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice, and poverty-Fancois-Marie-Arouet;1694-1778-

The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.--George Bush

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.--Bible: John 8:32

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.-Oscar Wilde

Many men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up and continue as if nothing had happened.-Winston Churchill

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find out.--Frank A. Clark

If we did all things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.--Thomas Edison

When God measures a man he puts the tape around his HEART not his HEAD.-Anon

The saddest moment in a person's life comes but once. (Source Unknown)
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat" (F.Scott Fitzgerald)

A friend is someone who know the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. (Source Unknown)

Am I not destroying my enemies when I am make friends of them? (Abraham Lincoln)

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. (Henry Kissinger)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind--- Albert Einstein

A young mind is like gelatin. The idea is to put in lots of good stuff before it sets.---Unknown

Good sex is like the frosting on the cake, but it's the meat and potatoes that provide the nourishment.---Ann Landers

God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has--- Arthur John Gossip

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity--- William Hiram Foulkes

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