Quotations
All that is necessary for the triumph of
evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Courage is not simply one of the virtues,
but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
Forgiveness is a gift of high value, yet its cost is nothing.
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows
In Brooklyn
Man's mind, stretched to a new idea,
never goes back to it's original dimension.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
True power is knowing that you can, but you don't.
Juliet Alicia Jarvis
The events of our lives happen in a sequence in time,
but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order.
Eudora Welty
One Writer's Beginnings
Carpe Diem!
(Seize the day)
Latin saying or proverb
Bear in mind that brains and learning,
like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce.
They are bought and sold.
You can hire them by the year or be the hour.
The only thing in the world NOT for sale is character.
Antonin Scalia
In a speech
There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.
David W. Johnson
Hard work spotlights the character of people.
Some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses,
and some son't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
Money and success don't change people;
they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
Never fear shadows, they simply mean
there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth E. Renkel
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela
A Long Walk To Freedom
The beautiful thing about learning
is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
Words are plentiful,
but deeds are precious.
Lech Walesa
Love is what's left in a relationship
after all the selfishness has been removed.
Cullen Hightower
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
Plutarch
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Opportunity is missed by most people because
it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas A. Edison
A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
Lao-Tzu
Do not count your chickens before they hatch.
Aesop
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
If a door slams shut it means that God is
pointing to an open door further down.
Anna Delany Peale
The world is moving so fast these days
that a man who says it can't be done
is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
My mother said to me,
"If you become a soldier you'll be a general;
if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope."
Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
No one was there.
Old Saying
God gives us always strength enough, and sense
enough, for every thing he wants us to do.
John Ruskin
Work as if you were to live 100 years;
pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
Benjamin Franklin
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Common-looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
You can make more friends in two months becoming
more interested in other people than you can
in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
A man of words and not of deeds
is like a garden full of weeds.
Anonymous
Every man's work, whether it be literature,
or music, or pictures, or architecture,
or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler
Talent develops itself in solitude;
character in the stream of life.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say,
abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us
or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell
The bigger they come, the harder they fall.
Bob Fitzsimmons
We have forty million reasons for failure
but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
It's nothing against you to fall down flat
but to lie there--that's the disgrace.
Edmund Vance Cooke
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Swiss Proverb
Adversity causes come men to break;
others to break records.
William A. Ward
Most people don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
John L. Beckley
Early to bed and early to rise,
makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Benjamin Franklin
The reason worry kills more people than work
is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost
Bacteria and other microorganisms find it
easier to infect people who worry and fret.
Leo Rangell
You can become strongest in your weakest place.
Anonymous Contemporary
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Anxiety is the great modern plague.
But faith can cure it.
Smiley Blanton, M.D.
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