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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.


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.


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.


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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