My Favorite Quotations

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My Favorite Quotations

"Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty."

Sicilian proverb

"It isn't enough to talk about peace.
One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"In soloing--
as in other activities--it is far easier to start something than to finish it."

Amelia Earhart

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Carl Sandburg

"Everything
even darkness and silence, has its wonders."

Helen Keller

"Be courageous! Have Faith! Go Forward!"

Thomas Edison

"Success is to be measured
not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which have been overcome while trying to succeed."

Booker T. Washington

"Think it more satisfaction to live richly than to die rich."

Sir Thomas Browne

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

Thomas Jefferson

"A man should never be ashamed
to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

Alexander Pope

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius

"Great people
are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great."

Mark Twain

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

Helen Keller

"We will be known by the tracks we leave behind."

Dakota proverb

"A ship in harbor is safe,
but that is not what ships are built for."

William Shedd

"Organizing
is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up."

A. A. Milne

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."

Babe Ruth

"Perseverance is a great element of success.
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Longfellow

"The aim of an argument or discussion should be progress, not victory."

Joseph Jourbert

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

Jonathan Swift

"Today always comes before tomorrow."

Botswani proverb

"Those who are at war with others
are not at peace with themselves."

William Hazlitt

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