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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had
wonderful things happen to you.

-- Mary Tyler Moore (1937-) American Actress

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it
requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you
lost all your money.

-- Bernard Meltzer (1914-) American Law Professor

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still
I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in
the small ones.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

-- Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without
losing heart.

-- R.G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle.

-- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator....When I
was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle
drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and
photocopiers...I appreciate where we've come from.

-- Julian Simon (1933-1998) American Academic

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention than to any other talent.

-- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English Scientist

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be
honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to
count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you
lived at all.

-- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your
convictions.

-- William F. Scolavino

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

-- Bishop W.C. Magee (1821-1891)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you
have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which
comes with a sort of mastery.

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but
it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

-- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble
image of yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people
happy.

-- Samuel Goldwyn

Laughter is the language of the Gods.

-- Buddhist saying

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor
without having victims.

-- Harriet Woods (1927-) American Politician

Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when
it doesn't. Get going with something small.

-- Irene Kassorla

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether
irreclaimably bad.

-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do
your own work.

-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two
greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of
mind.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what
he becomes by it.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far
better than mere giving.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which
appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of - such
richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except
in their dreams.

-- Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962) American Physicist

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great
achievement.

-- Thomas N. Carruther

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but
the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.

-- Elizabeth T. King

A hero is a man who does what he can.

-- Roman Rollard

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up.

-- Booker T. Washington

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel.
Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small
pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound
bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great
meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer.

-- Anonymous

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and
fears is more than a king.

-- John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.

-- A. Neilen

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our
worthiest desires.

-- Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first
be overcome.

-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness
is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

-- David Seabury

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

-- J. Harold Wilkins

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.

-- Charles Du Bos

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one
heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but
because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

-- Aristotle

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

-- Harold B. Melchart

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small
by his own will.

-- J.C.F. von Schiller

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad
experience.

-- Robert Packwood

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness
that comes with having proved you can meet life.

-- Ann Landers, born 1918

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what
has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the
best you can you can't do any better.

-- Harry S. Truman

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important
ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or
measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

-- Donald A. Adams

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the
same thing.

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist

Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the
Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears
dishonor more than death.

-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment
and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and
cheerfulness.

-- Daniel Webster

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

-- William Mather Lewis

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing
finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

-- Frank Knox

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he
ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong;
honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking
part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting
well.

-- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled
by, And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.

-- Chinese proverb

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

-- Jewish proverb

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form
of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to
regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed
upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should
not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like
Aaron's rod, with flowers.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

-- James A. Garfield

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ablility to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

Children need models rather than critics.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in."

-- Washington Gladden

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in
your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry
of life.

-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.

-- William Morrow

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have
those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

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

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.

-- Anonymous

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.

-- George P. Burnham

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 (1835-1902) English Writer

Mycket få människor lever idag - de flesta gör förberedelser för att leva imorgon.

-- Jonathan Swift

Förmågan att idag tänka annorlunda än i går skiljer den vise från den envise.

-- John Steinbeck

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had
wonderful things happen to you.

-- Mary Tyler Moore (1937-) American Actress

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an
experiment.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it
requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you
lost all your money.

-- Bernard Meltzer (1914-) American Law Professor

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still
I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in
the small ones.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

-- Louis Nizer (1902-1994) American Lawyer

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without
losing heart.

-- R.G. Ingersoll (1833-1899)

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk,...it's all a miracle.

-- Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) Polish Pianist

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator....When I
was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle
drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and
photocopiers...I appreciate where we've come from.

-- Julian Simon (1933-1998) American Academic

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention than to any other talent.

-- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English Scientist

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be
honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to
count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you
lived at all.

-- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your
convictions.

-- William F. Scolavino

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

-- Bishop W.C. Magee (1821-1891)

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you
have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which
comes with a sort of mastery.

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but
it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

-- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble
image of yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people
happy.

-- Samuel Goldwyn

Laughter is the language of the Gods.

-- Buddhist saying

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor
without having victims.

-- Harriet Woods (1927-) American Politician

Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when
it doesn't. Get going with something small.

-- Irene Kassorla

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether
irreclaimably bad.

-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do
your own work.

-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two
greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of
mind.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what
he becomes by it.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far
better than mere giving.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

Despite some of the horrors and barbarisms of modern life which
appall and grieve us, life has - or has the potential of - such
richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except
in their dreams.

-- Arthur Holly Compton (1892-1962) American Physicist

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great
achievement.

-- Thomas N. Carruther

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but
the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.

-- Elizabeth T. King

A hero is a man who does what he can.

-- Roman Rollard

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up.

-- Booker T. Washington

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel.
Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's small
pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-pound
bass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A great
meal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer.

-- Anonymous

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and
fears is more than a king.

-- John Milton (1608-1674) English Poet

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have
neglected much, and most of all yourself.

-- A. Neilen

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our
worthiest desires.

-- Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first
be overcome.

-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness
is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

-- David Seabury

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

-- J. Harold Wilkins

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.

-- Charles Du Bos

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one
heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but
because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

-- Aristotle

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

-- Harold B. Melchart

Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small
by his own will.

-- J.C.F. von Schiller

Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad
experience.

-- Robert Packwood

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness
that comes with having proved you can meet life.

-- Ann Landers, born 1918

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what
has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the
best you can you can't do any better.

-- Harry S. Truman

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important
ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or
measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

-- Donald A. Adams

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the
same thing.

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist

Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the
Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears
dishonor more than death.

-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment
and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and
cheerfulness.

-- Daniel Webster

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

-- William Mather Lewis

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing
finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

-- Frank Knox

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he
ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong;
honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking
part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting
well.

-- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled
by, And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.

-- Chinese proverb

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

-- Jewish proverb

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form
of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to
regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed
upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should
not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like
Aaron's rod, with flowers.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

-- James A. Garfield

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ablility to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

Children need models rather than critics.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in."

-- Washington Gladden

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in
your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry
of life.

-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.

-- William Morrow

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have
those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

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

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.

-- Anonymous

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.

-- George P. Burnham

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 (1835-1902) English Writer

Det är lättare att leda okunniga med kunskap än att leda kunniga med okunskap.

- okänd från skolan

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

-- Walt Disney

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

-- Albert Camus (1913-1960) French writer

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

-- Buddhist Proverb

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

-- Lao Tzu

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

-- John F. Kennedy

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

-- David Viscott

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

-- Sherry Rothfield

When you take a risk and step out of the norm, you run the risk and sometimes you fail. But you only fail if you give up.

-- J Peterman

"What is morality" she asked. "Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price."

-- Ayn Rand

Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.

-- Stanley Horowitz

Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

-- Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi 1893-1986

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

-- Peter Mayle

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. That's the only way to get to the top.

-- Emil Zatopek, Czech middle distance runner

Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.

-- Nolan Bushnell

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

-- Robert F. Kennedy

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

-- Chinese proverb

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

-- Norman MacFinan

You cannot add to the peace and good will of the world if you fail to create an atmosphere of harmony and love right where you live and work.

-- Thomas Dreier

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

-- General George S. Patton

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

-- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French Writer

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

-- Thomas Robert Gaines

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger.

-- Japanese proverb

Today is a gift; that's why they call it "the present".

-- Unknown

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

-- Jean de la Fontaine

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

-- Allophones Karr

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.

-- W.J. Davison

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

-- Lady Bird Johnson (1912- ) American First Lady

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

-- Mary Lou Cook

At first dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.

-- Christopher Reeve

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

-- Ruth McKenney

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

-- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) British Essayist

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

-- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

-- James Lane Allen (1849-1925) American Author

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilites waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

-- Brian Tracy

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

-- Vauvenargues

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Roman Philosopher

Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.

-- Unknown

Attitude determines altitude.

-- Unknown

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.

-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) British-American Writer

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.

-- Alonzo Newton Benn

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.

-- Unknown

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

-- Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

-- Robert Schuller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

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

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

-- Shirley MacLaine

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

-- Lawrence of Arabia

Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out.

-- Eleanor H. Porter, 1868-1920

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie.

-- Ann Landers, born 1918

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

-- Eddie Rickenbacker

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

-- David Viscott

Att hysa ett hopp är inte att vara övertygad om att någonting ska sluta väl, utan att veta att det kommer att kännas vettigt, oavsett hur det går.

- Václav Havel

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

-- Kevin Costner, Actor

Dina tankar och ditt sinne är din största och bästa tillgång.
De enda lyckliga omständigheterna som är stabila nog att lita på är de du skapar själv.

-- Anna Jürs, min bästa vän--

Det finns ingen bättre utbildning än motgångar.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

-- Michael Jordan

The best leaders collect information widely, listen to everybody, and then decide by themselves.

-- Edwin Bearss, Civil War Historian

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