In Author Order for lack of a better system
links to online text & online books where available
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"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." Abigail Adams 1744 - 1818
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
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Abigail Adams online at Massachusetts Historical Society | |
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.." John Adams 1735 - 1826
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John Adams online at The Papers of John Adams | |
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"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." John Quincy Adams 1767 - 1848
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John Quincy Adams online at The Internet Public LIbrary | |
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle 384-322 B.C.
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Aristotle online at The Literature Page | |
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"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.." Lucille Ball 1911 - 1989
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
"Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead."
"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Lucille Ball online at The Lucille Ball Family website | |
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"I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success" Ingrid Bergman 1915 - 1982
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."
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Ingrid Bergman online at The Official Ingrid Bergman Web Site | |
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"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful." Jacqueline Bisset 1944 -
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"Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give." Barbara Bush 1925 -
"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family."
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Barbara Bush online at George Bush Presidential Library | |
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"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies One shade the more, one ray the less, And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
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Lord Byron online at EnglishHistory.net | |
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" Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.." Dale Carnegie - 1888-1955
" If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done."
" Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
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Dale Carnegie online at The Dale Carnegie Page | |
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"In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity; in peace, goodwill." Sir Winston Churchill 1874-1965
"Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"Never give in -- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put."
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last."
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Churchill online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation" Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 B.C.
"All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.""
"While there's life, there's hope."
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
"Never injure a friend, even in jest."
"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
"A man of courage is also full of faith.
"Ability without honor is useless.
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
" If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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Cicero online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"Hope is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without the words- And never stops-at all." Emily Dickinson 1830-1886
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Emily Dickinson online at The Academy of American Poets | |
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"Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret 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 these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably" Walt Disney 1901-1966
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
"If you can dream it, you can do it"
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Walt Disney online at JustDisney.com | |
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"God does not play dice." "Gott würfelt nicht." Albert Einstein 1879-1955
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
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Einstein online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."  Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
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Ralph Waldo Emerson online at RWE.org | |
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"In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had compleatly overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility" Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
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Franklin online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"There is always hope, and hope breeds creativity, positive energy and action." Sheryl Franklin
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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 1874-1963
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Frost online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth." Kahlil Gibran 1883 - 1931
"Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved."
"Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself."
"Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty."
"All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand..."
"Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course."
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity"
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were... "
"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. "
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Gibran online at Kahlil Gibran Page | |
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"Life asks that we see the luminous beneath the surface of things, the
radiance amid our chores, the love that lives in every moment. If we are
paying attention, that is so much the better.." Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
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Ingrid Goff-Maidoff online at Sarah's Circle Publishing | |
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"Either we have hope or we don't; it's a dimension of the soul. It's an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense" Vaclav Havel 1936-
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Vaclav Havel online at Fakulta mezinárodních vztahu VŠE | |
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"I am only one; But still I am one. I cannot do everything. but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do" Helen Keller 1880 - 1968
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Helen Keller online at American Foundation for the Blind | |
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 - 1968
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
"Hatred paralyses life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
" Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
"I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
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Martin Luther King Jr. online at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Papers Project | |
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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing" Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt"
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
"Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion."
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth."
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Abraham Lincoln online at The Literature Page | |
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"How shall I keep my soul from touching yours? How shall I lift it over you toward other things? Ah, I would like to lodge it in the dark with some lost thing on some foreign silent place that doesn't tremble, when your depths stir. Yet everything that touches you and me takes us together like a bow's stroke that from two strings draws one voice. Across what instrument are we stretched taut? And what player holds us in his hand? O sweet song." Love Song Rainer Maria Rilke 1875-1926
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Rilke online at Picture Poems | |
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt 1884 - 1962
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
"...the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give."
"..the giving of love is an education in itself."
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is the you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give."
"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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Eleanor Roosevelt online at The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers | |
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"There is only one happiness in this life,
to love and be loved." George Sand 1804-1876
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George Sand online at The George Sand Association | |
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"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail" Robert H. Schuller
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible."
"As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others."
"If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been."
"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
"You can often measure a person by the size of his dream."
"High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true."
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation."
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed."
"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts."
"For every mountain there is a miracle."
"Impossible situations can become possible miracles."
"Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made."
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Robert Schuller online at The Crystal Cathedral | |
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"Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once." William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
"All these woes shall serve
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
"Our doubts are traitors,
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
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Shakespeare online at Shakespeare Online | |
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 - 1896
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
" Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind...cast-off and everyday clothing."
"The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe online at The Stowe Center | |
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892
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Tennyson online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty." Mother Teresa 1910 - 1997
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Mother Teresa online at Ascension Research Center | |
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"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy." Margaret Thatcher 1925-
"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air."
"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
" I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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Margaret Thatcher online at Thatcher Foundation | |
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion." Dylan Thomas 1914-1953
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
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Dylan Thomas online at Dylan Thomas Boathouse | |
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"Live in each season as it passes; breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit." Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
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Henry David Thoreau online at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods | |
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"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
"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."
"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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Mark Twain online at University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page | |
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"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. John Wayne 1907-1979
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