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  1. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated." -- Mahatma Gandhi --

  2. "Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever" -- Mahatma Gandhi --

  3. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -- Henry Ford --

  4. "There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish something!" -- Thomas A. Edison --

  5. "Without haste, but without rest." -- Goethe --

  6. "Our greatest battles are that with our own minds." -- Jameson Frank --

  7. "The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested." -- William Dean Howells --

  8. "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." -- George Washington Carver --

  9. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson --

  10. "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." -- William Faulkner --

  11. "You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw --

  12. "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way." -- Abraham Lincoln --

  13. "Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach --

  14. "People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."-- St. Augustine --

  15. Meditate.
    Live purely. Be quiet.
    Do your work with mastery.
    Like the moon, come out
    from behind the clouds!
    Shine
    -- Buddha --

  16. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi --

  17. "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." -- Albert Einstein --

  18. "Dream as if you'll live forever...live as if you'll die today." -- James Dean --

  19. "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery --

  20. "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." -- Aesop --

  21. "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do." -- Edward Everett Hale --

  22. "Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." -- Chinese Proverb --

  23. "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -- Vincent Van Gogh --

  24. "Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." -- The Buddha --

  25. "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." -- Wayne Gretzky --

  26. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt --

  27. "Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
    Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
    Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
    Sow a character, and you reap a destiny."
    -- Charles Reade --

  28. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -- Henry David Thoreau --

  29. "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes." -- Charles Swindoll --

  30. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein --

  31. "Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right." -- Henry Ford --

  32. "If you want others to be happy,practice compassion.If you want to be happy, practice compassion." -- The Dalai Lama --

  33. "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." -- Cherokee Expression --

  34. "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." -- Seneca --

  35. "Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. --

  36. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic." -- Jean Sibelius --

  37. "The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." -- Lao Tzu --

  38. If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand,
    things are just as they are.
    The obstacle is the path.
    -- Budha --

  39. "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde,"Lady Windemere's Fan" --

  40. "Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." -- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 --

  41. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates

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