Great Quotes
One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb
Faith. You can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it. - Samuel Butler
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle
Hating people is like burning down your own home to get rid of a rat. - Harry Emerson Fosdick.
When you differ with a man, show him, by your looks, by your bearing and by everything that you do or say, that you love him. - Senator Paul Douglas.
"Undress," as George Herbert says, "your soul at night," not by self-examination, but by shedding, as you do your garments, the daily sins whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. - Sir William Osler
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about? - Henry Ford
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
- Emily Dickinson
Do not worry why problems exist in the world - Just respond
to people's needs. -- Mother TeresaContentment lies within a man, in the heart: and the way to be comfortable, is not by having our barns filled, but our minds quieted. --Thomas Watson
Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks. It's all in your perspective. Unknown
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work to do your best will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, contentment and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. --Charles Kingsley
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the right things, but to enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice. ~~ John Ruskin ~~
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. (Arthur Schopenhauer, _Counsels and Maxims_)
Our doubts are traitors & make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare
One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life. - Oswald Chambers
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. --Charles Dickens
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. --Benjamin Franklin
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. - Percy Bysshe
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are
doing the impossible. -- Saint Francis of Assisi
No book is worth anything which is not worth MUCH; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier
can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book ~John RuskinAs you spend time on one thing, you lose forever the chance to spend it on something else. Time is always a big deal. - John Taylor Gatto in The Underground History of American Education