Thursday, January 31, 2008

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Children need models rather than critics.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

Thursday, January 24, 2008

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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

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

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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

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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“The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.”

-- Viktor Frankl

Monday, January 21, 2008

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Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weather vane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.

-- Edward R. Lyman

Friday, January 18, 2008

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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

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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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

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

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Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery ... It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.

-- Passage from Life of Christ

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man.

-- W. Russell Bowie

Monday, January 14, 2008

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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

Friday, January 11, 2008

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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

Thursday, January 10, 2008

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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

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

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

-- Daniel Webster

Tuesday, January 08, 2008

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In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

-- Clare Booth Luce

Monday, January 07, 2008

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

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

Friday, January 04, 2008

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

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist

Thursday, January 03, 2008

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

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

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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

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

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Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.

-- Danish proverb