"“Never second guess the things our young men and women sacrifice when they so unselfishly volunteer to give up the luxuries and comfortable way of living to accept the unmentionable, sometimes cruel life style they endure when they become a US Soldier.”"
S. Boyer |
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"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out – it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
Robert Service |
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"In the great scheme of things, what matters is not how long you live, but why you live, what you stand for, and what you are willing to die for."
Paul Watson |
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"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life."
John Homer Miller |
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost |
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial."
Charles De Gaulle |
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"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."
John Quincy Adams |
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Byrne |
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"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
John Burroughs |
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"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."
Adm. William Halsey |
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"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me""
Erma Bombeck |
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"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."
George William Curtis |
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"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."
Jose Narosky |
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"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outburts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
Adlai E. Stevenson |
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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
Mark Twain |
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"Sometimes questions are more important than answers."
Nancy Willard |
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"I guess there's a lot of things you don't know."
A. R. Deal |
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"I guess there are a lot of things you don't know."
A. R. Deal |
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"Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."
Muhammad Ali |
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"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."
Saint Thomas Aquinas |
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"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle |
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"I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world."
Thomas A. Edison |
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"Everything becomes a little clearer,
I realize what life is all about.
It's hangin' on when your heart has had enough,
It's giving more when you feel like giving up."
In My Daughter's Eyes, Martina McBride |
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"Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true!"
T. C. Lawrence |
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"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
Mother Teresa |
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"We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are."
Desire-Joseph Mercier |
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"This is courage… to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends."
Euripedes |
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"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
Helen Keller |
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Ganhi |
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"Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path and the only one upon which you will never get lost."
M. H. McKee |
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"If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive."
Eleonora Duse |
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Mark Twain |
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own."
Benjamin Disraeli |
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"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."
Dr. Joyce Brothers |
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?"
Dr. Robert Schuller |
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"Words are just words, and without heart they have no meaning."
Chinese proverb |
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"If you don't bend you are going to break."
Chaucer |
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"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires,
a touch that never hurts."
Charles Dickens |
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"My grandfather told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to be in the first group - there is less competition there."
Indira Gandhi |
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"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles."
Arnold H Glasgo |
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke |
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"Enjoy life's detours."
Unknown |
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"Always go the extra mile... whether for a friend or mint chocolate chip ice cream."
Unknown |
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"A friend is one whose strengths compliment your weaknesses."
Unknown |
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"There are a few nuts (and squirrells) in every family tree."
Unknown |
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"Appreciate differences instead of criticizing them."
Unknown |
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"Never criticize your hair cutter - at least not while yours is the hair being cut."
Unknown |
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"If you agree to bury the hatchet, don't leave the handle sticking out."
Unknown |
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"Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor."
Unknown |
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"Filling an existing need can be as valuable as anticipating a new one."
Unknown |
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"Initiative is seeing what needs to be done and doing it before you are asked."
Unknown |
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"One of the sobering characteristics of leadership is that leaders are judged to a greater degree than followers."
Unknown |
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"Being a good example is better than giving good advice."
Unknown |
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"Never expect gratitude, but always express appreciation."
Unknown |
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"Convert your failures into successes by learning from them."
Unknown |
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"When you're feeling overwhelmed, remember to take things one at a tiome, one day at a time."
Unknown |
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"Learn to thrive on challenge and change."
Unknown |
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"Faith does not demand miracles, but often accomplishes them."
Unknown |
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"Learn to relax without feeling guilty."
Unknown |
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"It's one thing to know what's right, and another thing entirely to do it."
Unknown |
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"Others determine your reputation. You determine your character."
Unknown |
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"Discipline begins with small things done daily."
Unknown |
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"Every morning you choose your attitude for the day."
Unknown |
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"I'm an American soldier too."
PFC Jessica Lynch |
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stewart Mill |
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"One need not look towards the heaven to find an angel for I have one here before me."
Lee Butler |
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"I sought His love in sun and stars, And where the wild seas roll: I found it not: as mute I stood, Fear overwhelmed my soul: But when I gave to one in need, I found the Lord of love indeed."
Thomas Curtis Clark |
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"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
Beryl Pfizer |
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"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of freedom."
John F. Kennedy, 1961 |
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"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything."
Mary Hemingway |
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"Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."
Anonymous |
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block."
Inigo DeLeon |
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"Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."
Wernher von Braun |
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"When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully."
W. Somerset Maugham |
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"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George |
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense."
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."
Lady Bird Johnson |
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"Not all hero's wear capes,some where kevlar."
Tessie Garza |
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"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong |
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"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
Paul Valery |
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"The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going."
Peter McWilliams, Life 101 |
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"I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time."
Louise Nevelson, 1980 |
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"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
Eddie Cantor |
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"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time."
Georgia O'Keeffe |
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"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."
Gallagher |
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"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
Pamela Vaull Starr |
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."
Joel Arthur Barker, author of Paradigms |
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"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
Margaret Young, quoted in The Artist's Way |
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"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
Wayne Gretzky |
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"You don't get to control any outcome, only every choice you make along the way."
Stephen C Paul |
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"In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait"
Jose Simon |
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""The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.""
Mark Twain |
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"You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, "My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!""
Dave Barry |
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"A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
Unknown |
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"Smooth seas don't make skillful sailors."
Unknown |
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""In your service to others keep to the humble works because they are works nobody else will do. It is never to small for God. For there are many people who can do the big things. But there are few people who will do the small things.""
Mother Teresa |
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"We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail."
George W. Bush |
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"Military Spouse motto - "Semper Gumby" or Always Flexible"
Unknown |
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""Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a
painting which is heard and not seen.""
Leonardo Da Vinci |
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"My Husband is a patriot, a brave and prideful man. And the call to serve his country, not all can understand. Behind the lines I see the things needed to keep this country free. My husband makes the sacrifices, but also our kids and me."
Author Unknown |
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"Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what
you've got."
Theodore Roosevelt |
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."
Roy M. Goodman |
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"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
G. K. Chesterton |
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"Deep peace of the running wave to you
Deep peace of the flowing air to you
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you
Deep peace of the of the shining star to you
Deep peace of the of the son of peace to you."
Unknown |
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"It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough."
Scott O'Grady |
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"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."
James Allen |
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Robert Green Ingersoll |
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"Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
Jules Ellinger |
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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney |
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"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
Baron Pierre De Coubertin |
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"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
Omar Bradley |
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"The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from."
Joanna Baillie |
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"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."
Leo Burnett |
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"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach |
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"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
Pablo Casals |
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"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
Bernice Johnson Reagon |
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"Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes."
Brendan Hills |
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"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."
Dale Carnegie |
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"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died."
Erma Bombeck |
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"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Mark Twain |
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"All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost."
J.R.R. Tolkein |
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"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson |
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Abraham Lincoln |
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"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway |
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"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
Walter Winchell |
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
Fr. Jerome Cummings |
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"The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed."
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort |
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Semisonic (song lyric, Closing Time) |
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"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."
Vince Lombardi |
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
Helen Keller |
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"What does not kill me makes me stronger."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein |
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"Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere."
Unknown |
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill |
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"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln |
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein |
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"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
Albert Einstein |
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"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
Aldous Huxley |
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"If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters."
Abigail Van Buren |
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills |
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"The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
Abraham Lincoln |
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."
Robert G. Ingersoll |
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein |
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"... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison |
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"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
Maya Angelou |
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"Life's journey is like a walk down a long hallway with a
cup of coffee in your hand. You can spill some and make a
mess and still have a cup that's plenty full."
Merry Wheaton |
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"You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it."
Unknown |
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
Bill Cosby |
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"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain |
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines
what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz |
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"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something
from him."
Galileo Galilei |
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"When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you
lose a game, you have to learn."
Tom Landry |
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"Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is
likely to become fact."
Norman Vincent Peale |
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"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard |
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly - who errs and comes short again and again. Who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. Who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at worst - if he fails - at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with these cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt |
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"Some of us have great runways already built for us.
If you have one, take OFF! But if you don't have one,
realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and
build one for yourself and for those who will follow
after you."
Amelia Earhart |
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"Life's like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out,
the more you receive in return."
Josh Hinds |
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"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
USMC |
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"Success often comes to those who dare to act; it seldom
goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences."
Jawaharlal Nehru |
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"No one knows what he can do till he tries."
Publilius Syrus |
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"Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life."
Unknown |
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"The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune."
Plutarch |
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"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."
Georgia O'Keeffe |
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."
C. Hoppe |
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."
Helen Hayes |
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"We will either find a way, or make one."
Hannibal |
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"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
Walt Disney |
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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."
Sir James M. Barrie |
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein |
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""The doors of wisdom are never shut.""
Benjamin Franklin |
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""The Wrong Answers are the ones you go looking for when the right
answer is staring you in the face.""
Eeyore |
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"People only see what they are prepared to see."
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
Alan Saporta |
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"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't even have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve... You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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