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Date Posted: 02:37:38 08/29/01 Wed
Author: Daniel
Subject: QUOTES

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. Author: English proverb

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. Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty. Author: L.P. Jacks

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. Author: Phyllis Bottome

Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man has ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Author: John Neal

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. Author: Norman Vincent Peale

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Author: Aristotle

Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one. Author: Harvey Mackay

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation. Author: Helen Keller

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred. Author: Thomas Jefferson

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams

Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present.
Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. - The Sanskrit

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. - W. A. Nance

Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. - Karol Newlin

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. - Kahlil Gibran

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William A. Ward

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. - Vince Lombardi

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core strength within you that survives all hurt. - Max Lerner

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems. - Michael J. Tucker

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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