Wisdom from the ages.

“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.” 

T Jefferson

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person by person. “ 
M Teresa

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.” 

G Washington

“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.” D Eisenhower

“The history of freedom is never really written by chance but by choice.” 

D Eisenhower

“To be free is not merely to cast off ones chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Mandela

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is 
always in vain.”

JF Kennedy

"You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give." 

Winston Churchill

“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

Socrates

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

Derek Bok

“Keep looking backwards and before you know it you’ll be back 
there again and again.” 

Tim Connor

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

Einstein

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom

and the enemy of growth." –

John Kennedy

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would  literally astonish ourselves.” 
Thomas Edison

“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Vince Lombardi

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."   
Charles F. Kettering

“Don’t waste your time taking anything personally. Whatever people say about you is just a projection of their image of you. It has nothing to do with you.”
Miguel Ruiz

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” 

William James

“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.” 

Thomas Edison

 

“Anger dwells in the bosom of fools.” 

Albert Einstein.

“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.”

Robert Fulghum

“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” 
Dan Millman

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

 Einstein

"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."

 JFK

“Being deeply loved summons your strength; loving deeply summons your courage."
Lao-Tzu

'Its not the life that matters, but the courage you bring to it.'

 Yogi Bhajan

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his
goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Thomas Jefferson

“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear."   
Vincent Van Gogh

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined."

Henry David Thoreau

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." 
Sir Winston Churchill

“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”   
Warren Buffett

‎"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."

George Carlin

“If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail”. 
Heraclitus

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit"

Aristotle

“If I could, I would." Say instead, "If I can, I will."-

Jim Rohn

‎"Give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."
M. Bridges

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"Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities." 
 Dalai Lama

The only way to get what you really want, is to know what you really want. And the only way to know what you really want, is to know yourself. And the only way to know yourself, is to be yourself. And the only way to be yourself is to listen to your heart and intuition.

Mike Dooley

“Desperation can be as powerful
inspirer as genius.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“We read to know we are not alone.”
C.S. Lewis

“Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.”
Albert Einstein

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the ones you did do.  So, throw off the bowlines.    Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore Dream Discover “

Mark Twain

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

Abe Lincoln

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.”

JFK

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T.S. Eliot

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human."
Will Rogers

“When you're down to nothing,
   God is up to something."
 Anonymous

“Life is not measured by the amount of breaths you take have but the moments that take your breath away.”

Stephanie Marrott

“There are only two ways to live your life; as though nothing is a miracle or as though

everything is a miracle.”

Albert Einstein

“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

St. Augustine

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
e.e. cummings

“The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love.”

Teresa of Avila

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers 
equal to your tasks."

Phillips Brooks

"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Mark Twain

"When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you."

Kevin Costner

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." Henri Bergson

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter Drucker

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa,

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King, Jr

“You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or
perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?”

Robert Louis Stevenson,

"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."

Tom Bodett

“To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.”

Edgar Allan

“All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope.”

Alexandre Dumas,

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.”

Abraham Lincoln,

“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”

Socrates

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

George Bernard Shaw

"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose
your words, for they become actions. Understand your
actions, for they become habits. Study your habits,
for they will become your character. Develop your
character, for it becomes your destiny."
 Anonymous

"People take different roads as they search for happiness, success and fulfillment. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they’re lost."

Tim Connor

“There’s no such thing as chance.  And what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

Johann von Schiller

“Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for.  It is something to be achieved.”

William Jennings Bryan

“Frequently the difference between success and failure is the resolve to stick to your plan long enough to win.”   
David Cottrell

“I shall not believe that God plays dice with the world.”

Albert Einstein

“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny.  But what we put in to it is ours.”

Dag Hammarskjold

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness."   
Mother Teresa

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence."  Helen Keller

"Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest."

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Develop a childlike fascination with life and people." 
 Jim Rohn

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

Albert Einstein

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

Ellen Parr

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Forgiveness is not an emotion, it's a decision."  Randall Worley

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."

Glenn Clark

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury."

E. H. Chapin

"Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price."

Elie Wiesel

“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned , but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, it is not puffed up; does not behave rudely  does not seek its own, is not provoked thinks no evil, does not rejoice in inequity but rejoices in the truth; bears all things,  believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.”

Cor. 13 3 -7

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

Maya Angelou:

"The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart."

Josiah G. Holland

“There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.” – Patrick Porter

“What you get by reaching your destination is not as important as what you become by reaching your destination.”

Dr. Robert Anthony

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

Frank Lloyd Wright

“You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”

Charles Buxton

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing; it was here first.”

Mark Twain

“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

Reggie Leach

“There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.”

T.H. Huxley

"Everybody can be great... You don't have to have a college degree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

Martin Luther King

"Never give up, no matter what is going on...no matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up."

Dalai Lama

“Now is the time.”

Martin Luther King

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”

Norley

“If something doesn’t work in our life we tend to repeat the behavior.”

N. Branden

“Never, never, never, never give up.”

Churchill

“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, on the threshold of victory, sat down to wait, and in waiting died.”

William Marshton

“The future comes one day at a time.”

Acheson

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today. Let us more forward  with strong and active faith.”

Roosevelt

“If you are afraid of your future, you don’t have a present.”

Peterson

“Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it’s only given to us moment by moment.”

Amelia Barr

“Every second is of infinite value.”

Goethe

“Do what you can now and let tomorrow take care of itself.”

Tim Connor

“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”  Disraeli

“Take away the cause and the effect ceases.”

Cervantes

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.”

Lincoln

“The moment someone says to me, “This is very risky,” it becomes attractive to me.”

Kate Capshaw

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

Plato

“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.”

Pat Riley

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

Anne Frank

“I take it that what all men are really after is some form of,  perhaps only some formula of peace.”  Joseph Conrad

“On starts an action simply because one must do something.”

T. S. Eliot

“To be a man is precisely, to be responsible.”

Saint-Exupery

“If there is no wind, row.”

Latin proverb

“Pray, but while you pray move your feet.”

Quaker saying

“There’s only one corner of the universe  you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”  Huxley

“No great deed is done by falterers that ask for certainty.”

Eliot

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

Gibran

“You are all you will ever have for certain.”

June Havoc

“A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies.”

William Wrigley, Jr.

“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”

Margaret Drabble

“Obedience is the key to every door.”

McDonald

“You can never ride on the wave that came in and went out yesterday.”

Wanamaker

“All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.”

John Stuart Mill

“The secret of success in life; is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”

Disraeli

“We only need obey.  There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.”

Emerson

“Eloquence is vehement simplicity.”

Cecil

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Let thy child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will thou wilt.”

Franklin

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important  thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

Disraeli

“Obedience alone gives the right to command.”

Emerson

“What too many orators want in depth, they give you in length.”

Montesquieu

“The only peace, the only security is in fulfillment.”

Henry Miller

“Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

William James

“Happiness, greatness, pride – nothing is secure, nothing keeps.”

Euripides

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experiences of others.”

Voltaire

“This is the chief thing; be not perturbed , for all things are according to the nature of the universal.”  Marcus Aurelius

“The way to be safe is to never be secure.”

Franklin

“You don’t get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live.”

Joan Baez

“He that seeks trouble will always find it.”

English proverb

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”  Robert Louis Stevenson

“Do not wish to be anything but what you are.”

Saint Francis de Sales