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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.

Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

There are no foolish questions and no one becomes a fool until they have stopped asking questions.

The only way to be number one is to be number one.

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

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

The problem with relationships are that people are so busy falling in love that they forget to fall in like.

When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

The only people who like change are wet babies.

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself!

Life is like a penyou can cross outbut never erase

Life is too short to live the same day twice!!

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

Let the spirit of adventure set the tone.

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership. They must be earned.

LOVE: We think about it, Sing about it, Dream about it && Loose sleep worrying about it. When we don't know we have it, we search for it. When we discover it, we don't know what to do with it. When we have it, we fear loosing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. But we don't know which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define && IMPOSSIBLE to live without.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

Look well to this day, for it, and it alone is life.

Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves.

Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

Set aside half an hour every day to do all your worrying; then take a nap during this period.

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Old men and far travelers may lie with authority.

Somebody did a golden deed; Somebody proved a friend in need; Somebody sang a beautiful song; Somebody smiled the whole day long; Somebody thought, 'Tis sweet to live; Somebody said, I'm glad to give; Somebody fought a valiant fight; Somebody lived to shield the right; Was that somebody you?

Someday is not a day of the week.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

Most people give off as much heat as a 100 watt bulb, but not as much light.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Most of us know when and where the Pilgrims landed, but few of us know why.

Most people are in favor of progress, it's the changes they don't like.

May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault.

One non-revolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of permanent revolution.

Of all our natural resources, the first one to be exhausted may be the taxpayer.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. Vitality never ''takes.'' You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

No one's gonna drag you up to get into the light where you belong.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Money talks and often just says, ''Good Bye.''

Money doesn't always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.

Money can't buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Next to the prosperity of a good person, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.

Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind.

Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so.

People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time -- the cemetery.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others

Nobody knows what a boy is worth. We'll have to wait and see. But every man in a noble place a boy once used to be.

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

Ninety percent of the things we tend to WORRY about we have no control over, so why worry about them?

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.

If we listen more than we talk,and instead of making sure our voice is heard,we make sure we hear their voice,and if everyone listened....and Intead of filling silence with words,we fill ourselves with silence,the world would be a better place

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

I can give you 1040 good reasons why I hate the government.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

Be alert to give service -- what counts most in life is what we do for others.

If others have sinned you need not mention it

Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

Give light and people will find their own way.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

Fragrance clings to the hand that gives the rose.

Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

If a man is alone in the forest and speaks...and no woman is around to hear him...Is the man still wrong? (of course!)

If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you.

If Barbie is so popular, then why do we buy all her freinds?

From the looks not the lips the soul speaks.

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which made the sure test sure.

He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.

He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

He who does not say too much has too much to say.