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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

 

 

Open rebuke is better than love that is hidden.

Proverbs 27:5, The Amplified Bible

 

 

The urgent is seldom important; the important is seldom urgent.

Dwight Eisenhower

 

 

The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair.

Charles Spurgeon

 

 

I want to open up my arms, and embrace that old rugged cross.
I want to take pride in the reason and be humbled by the cost.

Andrew Peterson

 

 

No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be.

Thomas Jefferson

 

 

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

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

 

 

Every refuge but Christ is a refuge of lies. My soul, stay thou upon the Rock.

John Howard, English prison reformer

 

 

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux, Diplomat

 

 

We are the first generation of man that actually expected to find happiness here on earth, and our search for it has caused such unhappiness.

Peggy Noonan, Journalist

 

 

 

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Lexicographer and writer

 

 

 

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Reginald B. Mansell

 

 

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

 

 

Man's best plea is always an echo of God's promise.

A. B. Davison

 

 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

 Helen Keller

 

 

 

Every man dies; not every man really lives.

Mel Gibson in Braveheart

 

 

 

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

 

 

Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

Richard Nixon

 

 

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

William Arthur Ward

 

 

From Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl’s thoughts while being marched to a Nazi concentration camp:
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth—that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when a man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way—an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment. For the first time in my life, I was able to understand the words, “The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.”

 

 

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

 

 

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.

Victoria Holt (1906-1993) Novelist

 

 

Live simply so that others may simply live.

-Chief Seattle

 

 

Failure seldom stops you; what stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

 

 

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Saint Francis of Assisi

 

 

 

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

Tom Clancy, The Teeth of the Tiger

 

 

 

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth in each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

 

 

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein

 

 

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a ride!”

 

 

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

 

 

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Bernard Berenson, Art critic

 

 

Reasonable man adapts himself to the world as it is. An unreasonable one insists on adapting the world to his own vision. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

 

 

Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.

C. S. Lewis

 

 

 

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.

Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

 

 

 

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.

William Shakespeare, Othello, Act III, Scene iii

 

 

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

Charles du Bois

 

 

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there was only joy in the
world.

Helen Keller

 

 

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

 

 

Be patient. God is using today’s difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow.

Max Lucado

 

 

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left.

P. W. Litchfield, Industrialist

 

 

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them. It is not what we receive, but what we give to others.

Evangeline Booth (1865-1950)

 

 

There are two great gifts we can give our children:
One is Roots;  the other, Wings

 

 

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

Harry Kemp (1883-1960), Poet

 

 

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Sherwood Eddy (1871-1963), Evangelist

 

 

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