| "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat
a path to your door." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A
professional is one who can do his best when he doesn’t particularly feel
like it." ~ Alistair Cooke |
| "Blessed
are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused."
~ Author Unknown |
| "A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination." ~ Nelson Mandela |
| "My interest is in the future because I am going
to spend the rest of my life there." ~ Charles Kettering |
| "What does not destroy me makes me stronger." ~ Nietzsche
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| "I could live a better life if I
had a better mind and a better body" ~ Ashleigh Brilliant |
| "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage
unless you're scared." ~ Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973) |
| "I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical
beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often the mustard seed germinates
and roots itself." ~ Florence Nightingale |
| "Some
people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength.
However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let
go - and then do it." ~ Ann Landers |
| "When
we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."
~ William Arthur Ward |
| "You have to do your own growing,
no matter how tall your grandfather was" ~ Abraham Lincoln. |
| "Our patience will achieve more than our force."
~ Edmund Burke |
| "Life is not easy for any of us. But
what of that? We must have perseverance and above all, confidence in ourselves."
~ Marie Curie |
| "I believe in hard
work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second" ~ J.K.Rowling
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| "What the world needs is more geniuses with humility,
there are so few of us left." ~ Oscar Levant |
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth, doubt those who find it"
~ André Gide, Writer |
| "It is easier to
forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend" ~ William Blake, Poet and
Artist |
| "They say hard work
never hurt anybody, but, I figure, why take the chance?" ~ Ronald Reagan,
40th President of the USA |
| "Complete abstinence
is easier than perfect moderation" ~ Saint Augustine of Hippo |
| "I was cut from my high school team. I
have missed more than 9000 shots in my career, I have lost almost 300 games. On
26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot ... and I missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
~ Michael Jordan |
| "Courage is not the absence
of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."
~ Ambrose Redmoon |
| "There are
two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other
is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein |
| "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment
that something else is more important than fear." ~ Ambrose Redmoon |
| "You must be the change you wish to see
in the world." ~ Mohandas Gandhi |
| "The
truly fearless think of themselves as normal." ~ Margaret Atwood |
| "War hath no fury like a non-combatant"
~ Charles Edward Montague, Editor and critic. |
| "Everything
has beauty, but not everyone sees it" ~ Confucius |
| "When people talk, listen completely. Most people
never listen." ~ Ernest Hemingway |
| "Truth
is stranger than fiction" ~ Lord Byron, in Don Juan |
| "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction
that we are loved ~ loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
~ Victor Hugo |
| "Knowledge consists of knowing
that a tomato is a fruit, and wisdom consists of not putting it in a fruit salad."
~ Miles Kington, 28 March 2002, 'The Independent' |
|
"Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good."
~ Author Unknown |
| "He who conquers himself is
the mightiest warrior." ~ Confucius |
|
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate
it." ~ Franklin P. Jones |
| "As scarce
as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." ~ Josh
Billings |
| "The man who treasures
his friends is usually solid gold himself." ~ Marjorie Holmes, "Love
and Laughter", 1967 |
| "Those who attempt
the absurd will accomplish the impossible." ~ Albert Einstein |
| "He has all the virtues I dislike and none
of the vices I admire". ~ Sir Winston Churchill |
|
"Keep me from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does
not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children." ~ Khalil
Gibran |
| "In my day, we didn't
have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned."
~ Jane Haddam |
| "The best protection any woman
can have ... is courage." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "Courage is being scared to death ... and saddling
up anyway." ~ John Wayne |
| "The greatest
test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." ~ Robert
G. Ingersoll |
| "I count him
braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest
victory is the victory over self." ~ Aristotle |
|
"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of
the beholder" ~ Laurence J. Peter |
|
"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his
mouth shut" ~ Sam Rayburn |
| "If you're
going through hell, keep going." ~ Sir Winston Churchill (1874 -1965) |
| "If you tell the truth you don't have to
remember anything." ~ Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
|
"If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood
on the shoulders of giants." ~ Sir Isaac Newton |
|
"When I fed the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why are
they poor, they called me a communist." ~ Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop,
Brazil. |
| "Let our cities be our swamps, and
our buildings our jungles" ~ Tariq Aziz, 11 September 2002, comparing
Iraq to Vietnam |
| "Under New
Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing" ~ Paul Flynn,
Labour Member of Parliament for Newport West since 1987. |
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"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
~ Whitney Griswold |
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