Friday, August 31, 2007
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Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not
contempt.
-- Stewart L. Udall (1920- ) American Politician
Thursday, August 30, 2007
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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
-- Linda Ellerbee (1944- ) American Journalist
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
--Mario Andretti
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
--Mario Andretti
Friday, August 24, 2007
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Instead of always harping on a person's faults, tell them of their virtues. Try to pull them out of their rut of bad habits. Hold up to them their better self, their real self that can dare and do and win out.
-- Eleanor Porter (1868-1920) American Novelist
Thursday, August 23, 2007
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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
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
-- Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
-- Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) American Writer
Monday, August 20, 2007
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If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying
down.
-- Mary Pickford (1893-1979) Canadian Actress
Friday, August 17, 2007
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain (b: Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910) American Author and Humorist
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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Money is a “way of keeping score in life,” says T. Boone Pickens. But that is just for those who like playing the game. The real goal is to live with grace and dignity. You can do that with a small amount of money...or not do it with a fortune.
-- Bill Bonner, financial journalist
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
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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
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
--Charlotte Bronte
Monday, August 13, 2007
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
-- Margaret Drabble (1939-) English Novelist
Friday, August 10, 2007
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Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
Thursday, August 09, 2007
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To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
Smile
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English Novelist
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge
both hands into life up to the elbows.
-- Jean Anouilh
Monday, August 06, 2007
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I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do.
-- Arthur Warwick
Thursday, August 02, 2007
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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