Quotations |
“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. “ -- Maya Angelou
“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.” -- John Burroughs
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” -- John Quincy Adams
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” --John Wooden
Human Relations
The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake."
The five most important words: "You did a good job."
The four most important words: "What is your opinion."
The three most important words: "If you please."
The two most important words: "Thank you."
The one most important word: "We"
The least important word: "I"
-- Author Unknown
“Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.” -- Frank L. Gaines
Today's progress was yesterday's plan. -- Anonymous
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before. -- Henry David Thoreau
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. -- Carl Sagan, American
You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar; Author, Motivational Speaker
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. -- George Bernard Shaw
I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. -- Anthony Robbins
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. -- Anatole France
Resolve: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. -- Jonathan Edwards
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. -- Pietro Aretino
Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so. -- Stanley Crawford
One kind word can warm three winter months. -- Japanese Proverb
There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -- Edith Wharton
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. -- Hebrew Proverb
He who takes his rank lightly raises his own dignity. -- Hebrew Proverb
Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations. -- Hebrew Proverb
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
Cicero
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Denis Waitley
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.
M. Scott Peck
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is its collective march. Progress advances, it makes the great human and earthly journey towards what is heavenly and divine; it has its pauses, when it rallies the stragglers, its stopping places when it meditates, contemplating some new and splendid promised land that has suddenly appeared on its horizon. It has its nights of slumber; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker to see the human spirit lost in shadow, and to grope in the darkness without being able to awake sleeping progress.
Victor Hugo
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection.
People are clearer at such times.
Storms purify the atmosphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Lee Iacocca
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln
It ain't as bad as you think.
It will look better in the morning
Colin Powell
Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.
Henry Ford
The success of each is dependent upon
the success of the other.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Cooperation isn’t the absence of conflict but a means
of managing conflict.
Deborah Tannen
Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
M. Scott Peck
Ten strong field horses could not pull an empty baby
carriage if they worked independently of each other. Regardless of how much effort they exerted individually, the carriage wouldn’t budge without their mutual cooperation.
Coach John Wooden
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully-nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Buckminster Fuller
All for one; one for all.
Alexander Dumas
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
Jean Kerr
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Buckminster Fuller
It is through cooperation, rather than conflict,
that your greatest successes will be derived.
Ralph Charell
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai E. Stevenson
Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern
We cannot have free government without elections.
Abraham Lincoln
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
Claiborne Pell
It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to
become politicians in the process
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."
-H. Ross Perot
"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
-Napoleon Hill
“Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
-Baltasar Gracian
“The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave."
-James A. LaFond-Lewis
Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity. It tells you who you are. It’s gotten so abstract. People don’t work for the sake of working. They’re working for a car, a new house, or a vacation. It’s not the work itself that’s important to them. There’s such a joy in doing work well.
Kay Stepkin
The Ultimate Day (last day of vacation) really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o’clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.
Robert Benchley
The value of compassion cannot be overemphasized.
Arthur H. Stainback
Love and Compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive
Dalai Lama.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
Francoise de Motteville.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. Thomas Alva Edison
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither
good plumbing nor good philosophy.
Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy
Work is either fun or drudgery.
It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
Colleen C. Barrett
Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Leo Tolstoy
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
Do you want me to tell you something really subverse? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything,
you risk even more.
Erica Jong
We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Dr. Karl Menninger
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.
Benjamin Franklin
Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
Franklin P. Jones
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudnerr
All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife
or husband, to a next-door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.
Mother Theresa
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson, 28th President
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson, Third President
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President
Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland, 24th President
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Grover Cleveland
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear . . . anywhere in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President
Men are respectable only as they respect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
Thomas Paine
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
Reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
David Hume
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
Alexander Pope
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Herbert Henry Lehman
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
Bolinbroke
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.
Laurence J. Peter
Hard work spotlights the character of some people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don’t turn up at all.
Sam Ewing
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
Live as brave men; and if fortune is averse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for.
José Addison
He that will diligently labour, in whatever occupation, will deserve the sustenance which he obtains, and the protection which he enjoys; and may lie down every night with the pleasing consciousness of having contributed something to the happiness of life.
Samuel Johnson
For of those to whom much is given, much is required.
John F. Kennedy
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford II
This above all: to thine own self be true
And it must follow, as the night the day
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.
Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can do anything we want
as long as we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
The test of a first-fate intelligence is the
ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convenience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophe and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are
certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Yonder palace was raised by single stones, yet you see its height and spaciousness. He that shall walk with vigor three hours a day will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
Samuel Johnson
Step by step. I can’t see any other way of accomplishing anything. I always had the ultimate goal of being the best, but I approached everything step by step. Confront fear and self-doubt. Fear is an illusion.
Michael Jordan
When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. Dwight D. Eisehhower
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
Gerald Early
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.
Rod Kanehl
It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
Nora Ephron
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker
It is summer, it is the solstice
the crowd is cheering, the crowd is laughing in detail, permanently, seriously, without thought.
William Carlos Williams
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Joe Paterno
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
There comes a time in the affairs of men when they must prepare to defend not their homes alone but the tenets of faith and humanity on which their churches, their governments and their very foundations are set. The defense of religion, of democracy and of good faith among nations is all the same fight. To save one, we must now make up our minds to save all.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at something—and much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, “Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,” our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.
Hortense Odlum
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.
If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
My father died many years ago
and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Natasha Josefowitz
My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life."
Jim Fox
Author Jim Bishop describes the feeling a father had when his daughter became engaged:
"This is the third of four daughters. Every time it happens, I’m obsessed with the feeling I’m giving a million-dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
It has been said that paternity is a career imposed on you without any inquiry into your fitness for it. That is why there are so many fathers who have children, but so few children who have fathers.
Adlai Stevenson
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena--whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions--and spends himself in a worthy cause--who at best if he wins knows the thrills of high achievement--and if he fails at least fails while daring greatly--so that his place will never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease, and security in order that he and his children may retain the rights of all free men.
Harold Ickes
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts ... the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
Sophocles
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln
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 something I can do.
Helen Keller
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglas
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Thomas Paine
Live for today; Hope for tomorrow.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go,
and guide you in whatever you do--
and may his loving protection
be a blessing to you always.
Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter.
Lullabies, dreams and love ever after.
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes...
That's the Irish for You!
May your blessings outnumber
The Shamrocks that grow.
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
May you have love that never ends,
lots of money, and lots of friends.
Health be yours, whatever you do,
and may God send many blessings to you!
I-wish you a very nice place to live,
I-wish God's greatest gifts he'll give.
I-wish you health, and wealth, and more--
I-wish your smilin' face were at my door!
May you have the hindsight to know
where you've been
the foresight to know where you're going
and the insight to know
when you're going too far.
You've got to do your own growing,
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb
The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
May you always walk in sunshine.
May you never want for more.
May Irish angels rest their
wings right beside your door.
Here's to you and yours, and to mine and ours.
And if mine and ours ever come across to you and yours, I hope you and yours will do as much for mine and ours, as mine and ours have done for you and yours!
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things,
but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vesta M. Kelly
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson
I am told that the Inuit have some sixty words for snow... for different kinds of snow. That doesn't surprise me; they see a lot of it. I live considerably south of the tree line, but even I have seventeen words for snow — none of them usable in public.
Arthur Black
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short.
It usually falls on Tuesday.
Mike Morley
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads,
and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results
Herman Melville
I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances
Herman Melville
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Martin Luther King
It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
Marian Wright Edelman
Policies are many,
Principles are few,
Policies will change,
Principles never do.
John C. Maxwel
Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.
Vaclav Havel, president, Czech Republic
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it. The only real security that
a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
What is America to me?
A name, a map, the flag I see,
a certain word, "Democracy."
What is America to me?
The house I live in,
A plot of earth, a street,
The grocer and the butcher and the people that I meet,
The children in the playground, the faces that I see;
All races, all religions, that's America to me.
The place I work in, the worker at my side
The little town or city where my people lived and died
The "howdy" and the handshake the air of feeling free
the right to speak my mind out, that's America to me.
The things I see about me the big things and the small
The little corner newsstand and the house a mile tall;
The wedding and the churchyard,
the laughter and the tears,
The dream that's been a growin'
for a hundred fifty years
The town I live in the street, the house, the room,
The pavement of the city, or a garden all in bloom,
The church, the school, the club house,
The million lights I see, But especially the people,
That's America to me.
Lewis Allen, The House I Live In
There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.
Andrew Jackson
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
Tenneva Jordan
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.
Maya Angelou
Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.
Erma Bombeck.
You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you.
Jay Leno
My mother's menu consisted of two choices:
take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett
The word May is a perfumed word. It is an illuminated initial. It means youth, love, song,
and all that is beautiful in life.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May.
Edwin Way Teale
May is a pious fraud of the almanac;
A ghastly parody of real spring
Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
James Russell Lowell
One swallow does not make a spring;
neither does one fine day.
Aristotle
A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.
Emily Dickinson
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. Margaret Cousins
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude
of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy—
they are the charming gardeners
who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
but to live by them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Courtesies of a small and trivial character
are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received.
Albert Einstein
Quotations 2
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with people, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it. A real sense of a kind thing is a gift of nature, and never was,
nor can be, acquired.
Lord Edward F. Halifax
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
I just want to thank everyone who made this
day necessary.
Yogi Berra
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 the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
Somewhere in a lonely land
Stands a lonely, but not forgotten man.
He's there to keep his people free
To live in Peace like you and me.
He fights by day, and prays by night
For tomorrow again he must fight.
Lt. Joe Kenney, Killed in Viet Nam 1969
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the Gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the mornings hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there. I did not die.
(This poem was made popular after a soldier, killed on active service in Northern Ireland, left it in an envelope to be opened in the event of his death.
No one knows who wrote it).
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf's a flower.
Albert Camus
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne
Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.
Doug Larson
Hockey captures the essence of
Canadian experience in the New World.
In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Stephen Leacock
I went to a fight the other night
and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
People are just as
happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful
Samuel Johnson.
Before you talk about what you want - Really appreciate what you have before it's gone.
Ethan Daniel
Time flies whether you're having fun or not.
Mary Engelbreit
Time is well used or not well used, it is never saved.
Bob Ellis (Australian writer)
In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.
Theodore Roosevelt
American football is an occasion at which dancing girls, bands, tactical huddles and television commercial breaks are interrupted by short bursts of play.
The London Times
Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of bloode, as daily experience teacheth.
Philip Stubbes (1555-1610)
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Erma Bombeck
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Martin Buber
If blood will flow when fresh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence
and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are.
Gordon Matthew Sumner (Sting)
I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and reassure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. -- John Adams (on the Declaration of Independence)
Like a comet blazing across the evening sky—
gone too soon.
Like a rainbow fading in the twinkling of an eye—
gone too soon.
Shiny and sparkly and splendidly bright,
here one day, gone one night.
Like the loss of sunlight on a cloudy afternoon—
gone too soon.
Like a castle built upon a sandy beach—
gone too soon.
Like a perfect flower that is just beyond your reach--gone too soon.
Born to amuse, to inspire, to delight, here one day, gone one night.
Like a sunset dying with the rising of the moon—
gone too soon.
Gone too soon.
Buz Kohan
Truly good friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. G. Randolf
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or a lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. -- Richard Bach
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels; we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. -- Anton Chekhov
Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really like? And then stay together? I guess that wouldn't work though. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. -- Snoopy
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
See the beauty around you;
take time to notice each small detail.
Go forth without fear and embrace
life which abundantly surrounds you.
-- David Apodaca
One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only 9 lives. -- Mark Twain
Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you don't think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You'll look ten years younger. Don't be afraid to say, 'I love you'. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world. -- Ann Landers
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. -- Albert Einstein
If you cannot fly, run.
If you cannot run, walk.
If you cannot walk, crawl!
By all means, keep moving.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr., March 31, 1956
Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetime, is certain for those who are friends. -- Richard Bach
You get the best out of others, when you give the best of yourself. -- Harvey S. Firestone
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Sir Winston Churchill
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! -- Hamilton Wright Mabie
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. --Sir Winston Churchill
Most people fear change, if only more people would encourage and accept change their lives would prosper. --Unknown
Change is constant. The key to successful change is to learn to make it work for your advantage without fear but with courage and a clear, sensible vision. -- SJ, Who Moved My Cheese
How important is it for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! --Maya Angelou
I am proud that I am a strong supporter of the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families! --John Shimkus
It is not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. --W.T. Purkiser
No person was ever honored for what he received. He was honored for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. -- Michael Jordan
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. -- Peter Drucker
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