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“Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.” -Blaise Pascal

“My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon.” -Leo Buscaglia

“You create your opportunities by asking for them. ” -Patty Hansen

“Let every man mind his own business.” -Miguel de Cervantes

“Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.” -Doris Lessing

“Thy reminiscences transport the soul To memory�s Paradise, its future goal.” -Parley P. Pratt

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” -Mother Teresa

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.” -Ambrose Bierce

“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” -Benjamin Franklin

“Ideas shape the course of history.” -John Maynard Keynes

“Any man who has ten thousand dollars left when he dies is a failure.” -rrol Flynn

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else�s life forever.” -Margaret Cho

“We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.” -Count Leo Tolstoy

“Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.” -Martha Beck

“Dedication and responsibility, Far beyond the laws governed by man, Releases the power within you, To attain all the wisdom of the universe.” -Christine Lane

“His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.” -Mark Twain

“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.” -Victor Hugo

“Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.” -G. K. Chesterton

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!” -Sir Walter Scott

“Love your friend with his faults.” -Anonymous

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard

“We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.” -Bern Williams

“We all have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.” -La Rochefoucauld

“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

“When people yearn with all their hearts For just one treasure far away; They close their eyes to countless joys That crowd around them every day.” -Anonymous

“Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.” -Dante Alighieri

“Don’t ever let anyone steal your dreams.” -Dexter Yager

“Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.” -Charles Caleb Colton

“You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up -and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.” -Vince Lombardi

“Goals are new, forward moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.” -Mark Victor Hansen

“His ignorance is encyclopedic.” -Abba Eban

“quoted by Rex Seline in Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram” -Warren Bennis

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” -Mary Pickford

“Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can’t retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.” -Bernard Mannes Baruch

“We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.” -Clarence Darrow

“Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.” -Japanese Proverb

“Failure is good. It is fertilizer. Everything I have learned about coaching, I have learned from making mistakes. ” -Rick Petino

“The key to achievement is being a How thinker and not an if thinker. ” -Unknown

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

“You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.” -John McTiernan

“The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,power, and magic in it.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Life is a promise fulfill it.” -Mother Theresa

“Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.” -Samuel Butler

“Today a reader–tomorrow a leader.” -W. Fusselman

“The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment. ” -William W. Ward

“The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.” -Alfred Adler

“If you don�t think about the future, you cannot have one.” -John Galsworthy

“Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.” -Blaise Pascal

“You learn the most from life’s hardest knocks.” -Conway Twitty

“I did not hear the words you said, instead I heard the love.” -Anonymous

“Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.” -Sue Atchley Ebaugh

“One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. ” -Steve Allen

“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

“Originality and the feeling of one�s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to you.” -Aldous Huxley

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Justice is truth in action.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.” -Ferdinand Foch

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” -Doris Lessing

“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by a horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ” -Dale Carnegie

“The thing always happens that you really believe in and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” -Frank Lloyd Wright

“Age is a function of mind over matter if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” -Leroy Robert Satchel Paige

“The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due” -Justinian I

“Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost.” -M.H. McKee

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

“In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends.” -Churton Collins

“Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year.” -Ira U. Cobleigh

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.” -Phillips Brooks

“I had a job selling hearing aids door to door. It wasn’t easy, because your best prospects never answered.” -Bob Monkhouse

“A person without character is just as body without soul.” -Ranjan

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” -Henry David Thoreau

“No good plan survives contact with the enemy.” -Unknown

“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.” -Victor Hugo

“You can�t shake hands with a clenched fist.” -Indira Gandhi

“A film has its own life and takes its own time.” -Aaron Eckhart

“Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one�s aim.” -John D. Rockefeller

“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.” -Don Marquis

“The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.” -Mary Catherine Bateson

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“Maturity begins when we�re content to feel we�re right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.” -Sydney J. Harris

“So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men.” -Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” -Napolean I

“Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.” -Ambrose Bierce

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” -Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

“Truth is always a delusion.” -Friedrich Durrenmatt

“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness. ” -Zadok Rabinowitz

“In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty.” -English Proverb

“Action is the foundational key to all success.” -Tony Robbins

“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.” -Henri Frederic Amiel

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” -Booker T. Washington

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” -William Butler Yeats

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.” -Confucius

“We’ve discovered the secret of life.” -Francis Crick

“Bluntness is a virtue.” -Allison Ling

“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it” -Albert Einstein

“We cannot change yesterday, we can only make the most of today and look with hope toward tomorrow.” -Unknown

“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” -Henry David Thoreau

“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.” -Toni Morrison

“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in ’em as food.” -Dorothy Gilman