Thanks to Bob Leslie for this interesting collection of quotes submitted to NCTE-Talk.
Quotations to Consider
1. Attitude is the mind's paintbrush. It can color any situation.
2. Success is a journey.not a destination.
3. Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. -Confucius
4. Empty wagons make the most noise!
5. Sour grapes make whine.
6. If I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left down
inside me. -Abraham Lincoln
7. Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. -Will Rogers
8. If I choose to be like him, who will be like me? --Yiddish proverb
9. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.
11. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of
comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. -Martin Luther King, Jr.
12. E pluribus unum (one from many)-taken from Virgil
13. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
14. An inch of time is an inch of gold but you can't buy that inch of time
with an inch of gold.
15. Whether you think you can or think you can't-you are right-Henry Ford
16. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. -Zig
Ziglar
17. You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. -Native American
proverb
18. Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. Italian proverb
19. No one can make you inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
20. It only takes a drop of water to start a waterfall. -Erin Brockovich
21. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.
-Italian
22. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
-Ibsen
23. If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred
days of sorrow. -Chinese
24. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. -Aristotle
25. If you can't go over, you must go under. -Yiddish
26. Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Albert Einstein
27. Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. -Native American
28. If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed
with a mosquito.-Anita Roddick, Founder of the Body Shop
29. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a
sense of humor. -Max Forrester Eastman
30. You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell
whether a man is wise by his questions. -Mahfouz Naquib
31. Truth is not determined by the volume of the voice.-Chinese
32. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
-Mark Twain
33. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-Andre Gide
34. My friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read. -Abraham
Lincoln
35. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes
36. You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
-R. Tagore
37. Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. -French
38. Ability is what you're capable of doing
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude determines how well you do it. -Lou Holtz
39. You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss
40. Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no
birds sang except those who sang
best. -Henry Van Dyke
41. Happiness starts with you.
42. Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
43. It is a right to learn alone. It is a privilege to learn in a group.
44. Seek out the good in every situation-and you'll find it.
45. If you think you can, you can!
46. The major difference between failing and falling is whether or not you
choose to get back up!
47. Laundry is the ONLY that should be s e p a r a t e d by color.
48. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't
try. -Beverly Sills
49. It doesn't interest me who you are, how you came to be here. I want to
know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink
back.
50. I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow
isn't looking good, either.
51. Remember the 3 R's, respect for self, respect for others, and
responsibility for all your actions.
52. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
53. A human being can alter his life by altering his state of mind.
54. Egotism is an alphabet of just one letter.
55. Make allowances for friends' imperfections as readily as you do your
own.
56. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
57. Honesty is more than just not being dishonest.
58. Watch your attitude, it's the first thing people notice about you.
59. Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
60. Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.
61. When someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
62. I discovered that I always have choices, and sometimes it is just a
choice of attitude.
63. If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average!
64. Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
65. The choices we make dictate the life that we lead.
66. One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. -Wayne
Gretzky
67. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
68. No matter what the past, the present offers a new beginning.
69. The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.
70. Remember the person who steals an egg will steal a chicken.
71. Be the first to fight for a just cause.
72. Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.
73. When there's a hill to climb, don't think that waiting will make it
smaller.
74. You have to stay awake to make your dreams come true.
75. You have to stay awake to make your dreams come true.
76. Don't be so concerned with your rights that you forget your manners.
77. When there's a piano to move, don't reach for the stool.
78. Life is like a scooter car; not much happens unless you do some
peddling.
79. Doing your best is more important than being the best.
80. Confidence is the companion of success.
81. It's hard to argue with someone when they're right.
82. If you allow someone to make you angry, you have let him conquer you.
83. Don't let a little dispute ruin a great friendship.
84. Luck tends to favor those who don't rely on it.
85. Remember that what's right isn't always popular and what's popular isn't
always right.
86. You better know what you stand for or else you'll fall for anything.
87. It's easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.
88. It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.
89. A good scare is worth more than good advice.
90. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
91. A good reputation is a person's greatest asset.
92. A good reason is not always a good excuse.
93. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
94. A strong code of ethics is as reliable as a compass.
95. Adrenaline is just as addictive as alcohol, and a lot more handy.
96. Remember that how you say something is as important as what you say.
97. The world is not what you look at, but what you see. -Henry David
Thoreau
98. If you want your ship to come in, you must build the dock.
99. Madonna is fame, Helen Keller is success. Know the difference!
100. Winners laugh, and losers make their own arrangements.
101. The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even
touched.they must be felt with the heart. -Helen Keller
102. Love has a hem to her garment
That reaches the very dust.
It sweeps the streets and lanes,
And because it can, it must. ---Mother Teresa
103. If you always do what you've always done,
You'll always be what you've always been.
104. You are the author of your own life story.
105. History shows that men and nations behave reasonably only when they
have exhausted all other alternatives. ---Abba Eban
106. They are able because they think they are able. ---Virgil
107. Difficulties exist to be surmounted. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
108. Work spares us from three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.
-Voltaire
109. It is always the adventurers who accomplish great things.
110. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid. -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
111. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted. -albert Einstein
112. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to
get its pants on. -Sir Winston Churchill
113. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without
work. -Emile Zola
114. Do, or do not. There is no 'try.' -Yoda
115. Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin
116. A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. -General George S. Patton
117. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
118. It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight
in the dog. -Mark Twain
119. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
cannot read them. -Mark Twain
120. Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -Wernher
Von Braun
121. Counting time is not as important as making time count. -James J.
Walker
122. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
---Will Rogers
123. I have a dream that the day will come when a man is judged by his
character and not by the color of his skin. ---Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
124. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however
measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau
125. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -Lao-tzu
126. When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that
three are pointing back at himself. -Louis Nizer
127. Never find your delight in another's misfortune. -publius syrus
128. No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. -John Donne.
129. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! Sir
Walter Scott.
130. Popularity is a form of success that is seldom worth the things you
have to do in order to attain it.-anonymous
131. It is quality rather than quantity that matters. -Lucius Annaeus
Seneca
132. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact
man. ---Francis Bacon
133. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson.
134. Things without remedy should be without regard, what's done is done.
-william Shakespeare
135. Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. -Diogenes
136. We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity.
What we need is to use what we have. -Basil
137. He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
138. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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