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PHILOSOPHICAL QUOTES (section one)
Moral clarity is frequently
clouded by an unrelenting stream of micro-information from various sources on nearly every subject known to mankind.
-Ray Gattavara
Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process
of developing them together in balance is called maturing.
-J.W. Jepson
When hope is taken away
from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
-Pearl S. Buck
The test of a religion
or philosophy is the number of things it can explain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of the
progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
-George Bancroft
What is the hardest task
in the world? To think.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never admired another's fortune so much that
I became dissatisfied with my own.
-Cicero
Great necessities call out great virtues.
-Abigail Adams
Wisdom and self-understanding can sometimes be of greatest benefit if consciously allowed
to improve our life in a spontaneous fashion, for excessive analysis of new revelations about ourselves creates the possibility
of diluting any positive intentions that are cultivated.
-Ray Gattavara
Knowledge may give weight,
but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
-Lord Chesterfield
Enthusiasm
can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite, intelligible
plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
-Arnold Toynbee
The drops of rain make a hole in the
stone not by violence, but by oft falling.
-Lucretius
Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain
a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
-Horace Walpole
Individual courage and evolutionary thinking are prerequisites for shaping the destiny of society.
-Ray Gattavara
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
-Bertrand Russell
He is a wise
man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
-Epictetus
Successful men[or women] of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.
-James Jacobs
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with,
you will not do much.
-Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
The service we render others is the rent we pay
for our room on earth.
-Wilfred Grenfell
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for
humanity.
-Horace Mann
A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number
of persons who believe in him.
-Woodrow Wilson
Access to power must be confined to those who are
not in love with it.
-Plato
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is
thinking that makes what we read ours.
-John Locke
Moral excellence comes about as a result of
habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
-Aristotle
Courage is resistence to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us
is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
-Henry Miller
It is easy in the world to live
after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the
crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies
behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed, they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited
for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryan
The man who never looks into a newspaper
is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled
with falsehoods and errors.
-Thomas Jefferson
A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness,
is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T.S. Eliot
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
-Benjamin Franklin
In analyzing history, do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind,
are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
-John Locke
Intelligence, like physical beauty,
often lies within the discernment of the beholder.
-Ray Gattavara
An honest heart being the first
blessing, a knowing head the second.
-Thomas Jefferson
The essence of philosophy is that a man
[or woman] should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
-Epictetus
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can.
-Lin Yutang
It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
-Samuel Johnson
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
-Benjamin Disraeli
It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplist way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and
vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found
that attitude, follow it.
-William James
The great thing in this world is not so much where we
are, but in what direction we are moving.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
The probability 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
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
-Aristotle
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and
what they are capable of bearing.
-Horace
The essence of being human is that one does not seek
perfection.
-George Orwell
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it
is the quality which guarantees all others.
-Winston Churchill
The best things in life must come
by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.
-Fred Corson
Creativity can solve almost
any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality overcomes everything.
-George Lois
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be
the improvement of the human condition.
-Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Only he is free who cultivates
his own thoughts...and strives without fear of man to do justice to them.
-Berthold Auerbach
Do
not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have now was once among the things only hoped
for.
-Epicurus
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on
yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence - is the key
to unlocking our potential.
-Winston Churchill
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded
in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.
-Charles A. Cerami
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession
of the truth.
-John Locke
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful
to himself.
-Thomas Paine
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever
the day brings forth.
-Horace
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his
life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
-William James
Each man [or woman] is capable of
doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
-Plato
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish
into air.
-John Quincy Adams
There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than
his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against
purposes that are difficult to stand against.
-Woodrow Wilson
The winning of freedom is not to
be compared to the winning of a game - with the victory recorded forever in history. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the
actions, the spirits of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots,
it will wither and die.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind,
is wisdom.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
Judgment can only be aquired by acute observation, by actual experience
in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men[and women] who have
made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human behavior.
-B.C. Forbes
There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what
you contribute and what you get out of this world.
-Oscar Hammerstein II
Language is the soul
of the intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences
of everyday life.
-Charles Scribner Jr.
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about
them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
-Voltaire
Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
-De Saint-Real
Every morning puts a man on
trial, and each evening passes judgment.
-Roy Smith
Character is higher than intellect.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prevalence of uncivil, impersonal, and/or unethical individuals within western
oriented societies is greatly dependent upon any willingness on the part of concerned citizens to quietly tolerate these kinds
of behavior within their sphere of influence.
-Ray Gattavara
The happiest excitement in life is
to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
-Ruth
Benedict
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are
moving: to reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and
not drift, nor lie at anchor.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Self-respect will keep a man[or woman]
from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel he may be in the right when the world is
against him.
-Bertrand Russell
Be always resolute within the present hour. Every moment is of
infinite value.
-Boethe
That man[or woman] is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more,
garnering the simple goodness of life.
-Euripides
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever
so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
-William F. Buckley Jr.
Perfection of means and confusion of goals characterize our age.
-Albert Einstein
The great
virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.
-Wang Yang-Ming
Not all heroes consist of those who perform courageous deeds on the battlefield during times of war. There are
intellectual heroes as well, whose exploits can be considered equally important to those on the battlefield. Thomas Jefferson
and Benjamin Franklin are known for their efforts at helping create the United States of America. Winston Churchill is considered
by many to be a hero for his leadership during and after WWII. Gandhi is considered a hero for almost single handedly bringing
about freedom and independence to the country of India. The common denominators among intellectual heroes are a commitment
to the greater good, and a willingness to think the unthinkable, even if surrounded by others who are unwilling and/or fearful
of doing the same.
-Ray Gattavara
People often say that this person or that person has not yet
found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
-Thomas Szasz
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
-John W. Whitehead
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is
more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of generous emotion.
-John Jay Chapman
All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather
know it than not.
-Samuel Johnson
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
-Nicholas Chamfort
Death never takes the wise man[or woman] by suprise; he is always ready to
go.
-Jean de la Fontaine
It is written in The Declaration of Independence, an important document
in the founding of The United States of America, that "all men[and women] are born(or created) equal." This is true,
all men and women are born equal. But the equality ends there. After birth we take up residence in a merit-based society.
An individual's commitment to the greater good of mankind, a sincere adherence to a lifestyle incorporating wisdom and
common sense, and a recognition that the acquisition of knowledge is a life long adventure, will, above all other things,
determine the rewards that he/she receives throughout a lifetime.
-Ray Gattavara
The way to avoid
evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
-Henry Ward
Beecher
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you
will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire,
as great as your dominant aspiration.
-James Lane Allen
We took risks, we knew we took them; things
have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint.
-Robert Falcon Scott
Honor
knows no statute of limitations.
-Samuel E. Moffett
Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash,
it glows.
-David Grayson
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
-Henry David
Thoreau
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
He is richest who is content with the least.
-Socrates
The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
-Voltaire
The radiating brilliance of Nature can only be eclipsed by the evolutionary but yet unrealized
potential of the human race.
-Ray Gattavara
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery
- courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.
-James Harvey Robinson
Physical concepts
are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
-Albert Einstein
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
-Cicero
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain
a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
-Polybius
Lonliness
and boredom seldom visit those who have evolved into becoming their own best friend.
-Ray Gattavara
The wisdom seeker avoids attempting to force his/her beliefs on others, and instead encourages each to discover their own
path in life, while nevertheless remaining steadfastly committed to the evolution of humanity.
-Ray Gattavara
Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well be the greatest scarcities of tomorrow.
-Edwin Way Teale
To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any
excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.
-Eric Hoffer
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-Edith Wharton
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is
opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Triumph often is nearest
when defeat seems inescapable.
-B.C. Forbes
While being idealistic and/or visionary in our thinking
is noble and necessary for social evolution and self-improvement, our personal behavior must nevertheless be rooted in realism,
commonly known as facing what is on the ground in front of us, if we are to remain on the path to wisdom.
-Ray
Gattavara
Keep your face in the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-Helen Keller
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
-Mohandis Gandhi
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order
to serve it.
-Simone Weil
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he
could only do a little.
-Edmund Burke
If the first law of friendship is that it has to be cultivated,
the second law is to be indulgent when the first law has been neglected.
-Voltaire
Life is a pure
flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Browne
The chief glory of every
people arises from its authors.
-Samuel Johnson
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
-Leonardo da Vinci
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other
direction.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nourishing the seeds of inspiration within a culture fuels creativity
and enhancement of both the individual and society as a whole.
-Ray Gattavara
There are two things
to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
-Plato
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers.
-Victor Hugo
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
-William Hazlitt
The
shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coin of
the thinker at work.
-Jerome S. Butler
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate
the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virtue is a kind of health, beauty,
and good habit of the soul.
-Plato
If we open a quarrel between the past and present, we shall
find we have lost the future.
-Winston Churchill
The wisest person is not the one who has the
fewest failures, but the one who turns failures to best account.
-Richard R. Grant
Man, unlike
any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges
ahead of his accomplishments.
-John Steinbeck
The original writer is not he who refrains from
imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
-Francois Rene Chateaubriand
Where observation
is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
-Louis Pasteur
That all men [and women] are
equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
-Aldous Leonard
Huxley
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
-Benjamin
Jowett
Fate is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought, for causes which are unpenetrated.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous
cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
-William Jennings Bryan
In skating over thin ice,
our safety is in our speed.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will have written exceptionally well if,
by skillful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.
-Horace
No
great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of
their modes of thought.
-John Stuart Mill
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty
of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Fortune does not change men [or women]; it unmasks them.
-Suzanne Necker
To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
-Samuel
Butler
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
-Logan
Pearsall Smith
I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think
at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.
-Thomas Paine
Common sense
is not so common.
-Voltaire
He [or she] that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy
in another.
-Aesop
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possiblities and undertake the most interesting game
in the world - making the most of one's best.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
I present myself to you
in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
-Luigi Pirandello
Most men
pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
-Soren Kierkegaard
No one
who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
-John Churton Collins
Read not to contradict and confute,
nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
-Francis Bacon
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.
-Horace
A generous and
elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
-Samuel Johnson
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
-Woodrow Wilson
No external advantages can supply self-reliance. The force of one's being...must come from within.
-R.W.
Clark
Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind: it forces you to stretch your own.
-Charles Scribner Jr.
Only a few recognize the profound difference between the practice of unbiased
personal and professional ethics, versus common ethics observed by most individuals today, which have a tendency to be embraced
only if there is an advantage to be gained.
-Ray Gattavara
Every quotation contributes something
to the stability or enlargement of the language.
-Samuel Johnson
The just man having a firm grasp
of his intentions, neither the heated passions of his fellow men ordaining something awful, nor a tyrant staring him in the
face, will shake in his convictions.
-Horace
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to
our surroundings.
-Okakura Kakuzo
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what
we are.
-Mackintosh
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our
adversities.
-Sophocles
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth knowing.
-Robert Browning
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
-Lord Chesterfield
There is no need to show your ability before everyone.
-Baltasar Gracian
One man
that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
-George Bernard Shaw
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.
-John Buchan
To
change your mind and to follow him who sets you right is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
-Marcus
Aurelius
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness
of heart, but of strength of mind.
-William Hazlitt
We will discover the nature of our particular
genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural
channel to open.
-Shakti Gawain
Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted,
by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.
-Samuel Johnson
Many people
wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good on their own fashion.
-Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an
advantage.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Our entire life... consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as
we are.
-Jean Anouilh
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and it's
face of eternal youth.
-Albert Camus
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following
your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin.
-Katherine Butler Hathaway
A
man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.
-Milan Kundera
I will fight for
what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.
-Barbara Castle
Education
is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
-Robert Frost
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in all the thousand small, uncaring ways.
-Stephen Saint Vincent Benet
Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
-J.C.F.
von Schiller
There is no endeavor or environment whatsoever involving human interaction that cannot be improved
with the infusion of inspiration and wisdom.
-Ray Gattavara
Facts do not cease to exist because
they are ignored.
-Aldous Huxley
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally
determined to some particular direction.
-Samuel Johnson
Of all the paths a man could strike into,
there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ...
to find his path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
-Thomas Carlyle
Let us not
look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
-James Thurber
There must
be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
-Francis Drake
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done and the worst is that which delays
them.
-David Lloyd George
None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have
had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing
with them.
-Bernard M. Baruch
It takes wisdom and discernment to minister to people in need. We
must look beyond the apparent and seek to meet the needs of the whole person.
-Richard C. Chewning
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
-Bertrand Russell
Pleasure is very seldom found
where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
-Samuel Johnson
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
-Seneca
The Younger
In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles....
The habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of wisdom.
-Alfred North
Whitehead
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
-Helen Keller
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
-David
Starr Jordon
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which
have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
-E.M. Forester
Value the past, take positive action today, and strive to influence the future in a manner that will enhance the value of
mankind.
-Ray Gattavara
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself,
as one approaches the real meaning of things.
-Constatin Brancusi
Happiness belongs to those who
are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain,
precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Today is the day in which to
express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.
-Grenville
Kleiser
Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be
nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.
-Elbert Hubbard
Act so as to elicit the best
in others and thereby in thyself.
-Felix Adler
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents,
which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
-Horace
Be a life long or short,
its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
-David Starr Jordon
The question for each man
is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with what he
has.
-Frank Hamilton
A hero is a man who does what he can.
-Romain Rolland
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
-William
James
Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
-Edgar Watson
Howe
Seeking self-discovery, inspiration, and the enhancement of humanity will on occasion illuminate paths
not previously observed, and it would be advantageous for each of us to embrace these potentially new directions of travel
with vigor.
-Ray Gattavara
Time is a perishable commodity for all of us, and as such, needs to
be utilized with diligence and enthusiasm.
-Ray Gattavara
On the occasion of every accident that
befalls you... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
-Epictetus
A great philosophy
is not a philosophy above reproach; it is a philosophy without fear.
-Charles Peguy
Experiencing
wisdom invigorates positive thinking and rekindles hope for the future - always.
-Ray Gattavara
Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
-Henry David Thoreau
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
-Edward Weeks
The
philosophically enlightened individual attempts to act as a beacon for humanity while traveling on the path to wisdom, but
there is no discouragement if others cannot yet see him.
-Ray Gattavara
Hope is a vigorous principle...
it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
-Jeremy Collier
Think
like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-Henri Bergson
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,
the greater is their power to harm us.
-Voltaire
A great man is always willing to be little.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero mirrors the time and place in which he lives. He must reflect men's
innermost hopes and beliefs in a public way.
-Marshall Fishwick
Wisdom is the most important part
of happiness.
-Sophocles
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If
you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
-Horace Mann
Hope
is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.
-Dr. Karl Menninger
The
same man cannot be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
-Euripides
If you will
call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous
and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
-J.R. Miller
You cannot dream yourself
into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.
-James A. Froude
The grand essentials
to happiness in life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
-Joseph Addison
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