Lillion Vernon: “Success is measured not necessarily by what others see, but what they don’t see -- personal self worth. Success is accomplishing what you most wish for yourself.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moment of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Will Rogers: “If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.”
Benjamin Disraeli: “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Gloria Steinem: “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
Sandra Day O'Connor: “The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.”
Marcus Aurelius: “Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.”
Liane Cardes: “Continuous effor -- not strength or intelligence -- is the key to unlocking our potential.”
John F. Kennedy: “You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.”
Darren K. Stocker: “We only live a life time. Regretfully, some are shorter than others.”
Dave Keel: “Let everyone drink from the well of justice and no one will be thirsty for it.”
General George Patton: “If a man does his best, what else is there?”
John Wooden: “Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.”
Teddy Roosevelt: “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
Texas Bix Binder: “If you’re ridin’ ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.”
Texas Bix Binder: “When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don’t be surprised if they learned their lesson.”
Robert Dent: “Police work give you the test first, then the lesson.”
Det. Ted O'Conner, Chicago PD: “Living in our society is like living in a very tall building. The rich live on the top floors. The poor live on the lowest floors. And only the cops travel to all the floors.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes: “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”
Gandhi: “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”
John Wooden: “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
Michel de Montaigne: “There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
Ashleigh Brilliant: “I don’t have any solution but I certainly admire the problem.”
Walter Winchell: “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Edmund Burke: “Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Peter F. Drucker: “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
R. Webb, Senior Dep., LA Co. Sheriff: “Rookie, we’re going home to our families after our tour is over. That’s my only rule.”
William James: “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
Cherie Carter-Scott: “Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.”
Victor Hugo: “People do not lack strength; they lack will.”
Emory Ward: “Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps and the common cold, is highly contagious.”
Malcomb S. Forbes: “The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.”
Henry Ford, Sr.: “Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.”
Art Buchwakl: “Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive, there’s something wrong with him.”
T.S. Eliot: “Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.”
Sir Winston Churchill: “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Orson Welles: “In Italy for thirty years under the Bourgeois they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelto, Leonardo de Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Jacob M. Braude: “Life is a grindston; whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you’re made of.”
Niels Bohr: “Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”
Radio Announcer: “If it’s going to be cold, if it’s going to be raining, I want snow, dammit!”
Michael Caine: “Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.”
Ronnie Shakes: “I wouldn’t mind being the last man on earth -- just to see if all of those girls were telling me the truth.”
George Carlin: “If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?”
Ronald Reagan: “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, well you can always write a book.”
Alan Reed: “An inferiority complex would be a blessing, if only the right people had it.”
William Bridges: “Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.”
Anthony Hopkins: “I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. i was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.”
Nixon: “And always remember that those who hate you don’t win until you hate them, then you destroy yourself.”
(Sarah Michelle Gellar talking about filming the movie Scooby Doo.)
Sara Michelle Gellar: “What’s odd about cameras is perception, so where I’m looking at Scooby
would not be where Freddie would look. With my height, [the eye line] was sort of at Matt Lillard’s waist. So I spent months staring at his crotch; Matt’s package and I are very well acquainted.”
(When asked if he’s in denial.)
Al Gore: “No, no, I deny that!”
(On hosting the Grammy’s.)
Jon Stewart: “I’m hoping to talk to past hosts, but what advice can they give -- ‘Don’t Suck’?”
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