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“I love to go to Washington — if only to be near my money.” -Bob Hope

“I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.” -Richard Phillips Feynman

“Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“For I can do ALL things through Christ who gives me strength. ” -Philippians 4:13

“We were all born with wings. In times of doubt spread them.” -Unknown

“Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance and keep afloat.” -Eric Hoffer

“There is no man living who isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.” -Henry Ford

“I don’t know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.” -W. Somerset Maugham

“Power tires only those who do not have it.” -Giulio Andreotti

“Great necessities call forth great leaders.” -Abigail Adams

“What does not kill me makes me stronger.” -Friedrich Nietzsche

“The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.” -St. Augustine

“It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.” -Rene Descartes

“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” -Robert Hughes

“This is no time to make new enemies.” -Voltaire

“Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don�t know when to quit. Most people succeed because they are determined to.” -George E. Allen

“Failure is the mother of success” -Chinese proverb

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction. ” -Matthew Burton

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.” -Garrison Keillor

“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.” -Elbert Hubbard

“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” -Maxwell Maltz

“Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.” -Rosalene Glickman

“Life�s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” -Victor Marie Hugo

“Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.” -James Baldwin

“Pride, envy, avarice — these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.” -Alighieri Dante

“For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.” -Aeschylus

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” -Kimberly Johnson

“All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.” -Blaise Pascal

“All leaders are readers.” -Jim Rohn

“Character is a victory, not a gift.” -Anonymous

“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.” -Thomas Carlyle

“Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.” -William Ellery Channing

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” -Emo Philips

“Learning without thought is labor lost.” -Confucius

“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” -Jacob Bronowski

“In the end, the size of a man’s accomplishments can best be measured by the size of their heart. ” -Unknown

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.” -Robert Lowell

“To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.” -Alexis Carrel

“He who does not tire, tires adversity.” -Anonymous

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.” -William Shakespeare

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” -Michael Korda

“There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.” -Christopher Morley

“For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” -Adlai E. Stevenson

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” -Oscar Wilde

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” -Zora Neale Hurston

“Very little is needed to make a happy life.” -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” -Albert Einstein

“Knowledge exists to be imparted.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth.” -Cuban Proverb

“Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.” -Andrew Bonar Law

“I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes. ” -Anthony Robbins

“I wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” -Kahlil Gibran

“What is the worth of anything,But for the happiness ’twill bring?” -Richard Owen Cambridge

“The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. ” -Unknown

“I’m as busy as a one-armed taxi-driver with crabs.” -Sir Les Patterson

“We can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures.” -Unknown

“The answer is in thy heart. Thee can always hear it, if thee listens for it.” -John Steinbeck

“We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” -Abraham Lincoln

“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” -William Blake

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Too much sensibility creates unhappiness too much insensibility leads to crime.” -Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise” -William Carlos Williams

“One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.” -Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ” -Benjamin Franklin

“My mistakes are my life.” -Samuel Beckett

“The people who say they don�t have time to take care of themselves will soon discover they�re spending all their time being sick.” -Patricia Alexander

“Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” -Kyle Chandler

“Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy.” -Gordon William Allport

“Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. … the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.” -Vartan Gregorian

“If you want to win, go and meet those who lost. ” -Unknown

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?” -Cicero

“Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.” -Kevin Spacey

“Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.” -Jewish Proverb

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” -Bob Dylan

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” -William Arthur Ward

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” -James Allen

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Bambi can’t act. Bambi had major attitude.” -Treat Williams

“We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.” -W. Somerset Maugham

“There is no time like the pleasant.” -George Bergman

“A most important key to successful leadership is your ability to direct” -Unknown

“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” -Barbara DeAngelis

“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can�t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” -David Lloyd George

“The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than he discovery of a new star. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” -Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.” -William Blackstone

“It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.” -Tacitus

“Marty McFly Jesus, George, it’s a wonder I was ever born.” -Back to the Future

“The harder I work, the luckier I get. ” -James Thurber

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” -James M. Barrie

“You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.” -Winston Churchill

“The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.” -Barbara M. White

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction. ” -George Horace Lorimer

“Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish, don’t overdo it.” -Lao Tse

“You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act.” -Auberon Herbert

“Predetermine the objectives that you want to accomplish. Think big, act big, and set out to accomplish big results! ” -Mark Victor Hansen