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“Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.” -Melvin Maddocks

“We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.” -Denis Waitley

“If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure.” -Saint Basil

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Seneca

“Its kind of fun to do the impossible. ” -Walt Disney

“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Work like you don�t need the money. Love like you�ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody�s watching.” -Unknown

“Anger is only one letter short of danger.” -Roosevelt, Eleanor

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes and learn from them. Mistakes are the lessons of wisdom. ” -Unknown

“another phrasing: If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.” -Harry S Truman

“When in doubt, take more time.” -John Zimmerman

“As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.” -Ursula K. LeGuin

“If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, be strong” -Kurdish proverb

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

“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” -Augustus William Hare

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” -Charles Horton Cooley

“Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.” -M Scott Peck

“There are important cases in which the difference between half a heart and a whole heart makes just the difference between signal defeat and a splendid victory.” -A.H.K. Boyd

“A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.” -Proverb

“We don�t realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.” -Fernando Flores

“True independence comes when we cease to FORCE and start to FLOW.” -Vernon Howard

“Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.” -Georges Duhamel

“All the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t put the past together again. So let’s remember: Don’t try to saw sawdust.” -Dale Carnegie

“When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.” -Herbert Clark Hoover

“I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.” -Elizabeth T. King

“The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.” -Aldo Leopold

“Be ashamed to die unless you have won some victory for humanity.” -Horace Mann

“In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there’s no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

“A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.” -William Sharp

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” -George Orwell

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.” -Comte de Bussy-Rabutin

“Riches, like glory or heath, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.” -Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“It’s not enough that I should succeed – others should fail.” -David Merrick

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” -George Bernard Shaw

“You can’t trust a promise someone makes while they’re drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.” -Joe Moore

“The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.” -Roger Baldwin

“The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck. ” -Anthony Robbins

“It is not failure itself that holds people back; it is the fear of failure that paralyzes you.” -Brian Tracy

“You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be led.” -Tiorio

“Hell is paved with good intentions.” -Ben Stein

“To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.” -William Arthur Ward

“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.” -Helen Keller

“If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don’t have it, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.” -Ann Landers

“Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.” -Vince Lombardi

“The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. ” -Benjamin Disraeli

“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Nelson Mandela

“Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind.” -Stephen Vincent Benet

“We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.” -Susan Jeffers

“When you shoot for the moon and you come up short, you still end up among the stars.” -Les Brown

“It’s an important fact of life, war.” -Jeff Goldblum

“There are two kinds of worries — those you can do something about and those you can’t. Don’t spend any time on the latter.” -Duke Ellington

“Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.” -Publilius Syrus

“It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that�s necessary for believing in it.” -Ugo Betti

“The darkest hour of any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. ” -Horace Greeley

“This notion is more clearly understood by asking What do I know?.” -Joseph Priestley

“In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. ” -Henry David Thoreau

“A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.” -George William Curtis

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” -Martin Luther

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” -Unknown

“Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. ” -Robert Albert Bloch

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

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” -Ashley Montagu

“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.” -Joseph Campbell

“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible -not to have run away.” -Dag Hammarskjold

“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.” -Josh Billings

“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” -John A. Simone, Sr.

“A coward turns away, but a brave man’s choice is danger.” -Euripides

“Fortune favors the brave.” -Publius Terence

“There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.” -William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

“It isn’t always necessary to achieve great things. Sometimes, just surviving is a great achievement.” -Unknown

“If you want your dreams to come true, don’t sleep.” -Yiddish Proverb

“Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.” -Johann von Goethe

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge.” -Confucius

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.” -Kahlil Gibran

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” -Theophrastus

“The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.” -Paul Karl Feyerabend

“They offered me a handshake of �10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.” -Tommy Docherty

“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.” -Dr. David M. Burns

“You couldn’t be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you’d been abused into affecting public humility.” -Lois McMaster Bujold

“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.” -Miguel de Cervantes

“Your ability will grow to match your dreams. ” -Jim Rohn

“The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.” -John Adams

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” -Ambrose Redmoon

“Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way.” -Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh

“A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life–what people are interested in. That’s journalism.” -Burton Rascoe

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.” -Sloan Wilson

“Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd.” -Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

“There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.” -Edmund Burke

“Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.” -Giuseppe Mazzini

“There are no failures in life, only those who give up to soon. ” -unknown

“The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.” -Peter De Vries

“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.” -Matthew Arnold

“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” -Euripides

“It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. ” -Joseph Ross

“My family was so poor that the lady next door gave birth to me.” -Lee Trevino

“Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.” -Oprah Winfrey

“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.” -Eddie Cantor

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” -Mary Lou Cook