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Quotes August 19-21, 2023

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Physicist-Nobel Prize Winner
 
 
 
 
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
John F. Kennedy
 
 
 
 
I knew that I just didn’t have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe.
Misty Copeland – Ballet Dancer
 
 
 
 
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote – 1924-1984 – Novelist
 
 
 
 
I know I have the body but of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm.
Queen Elizabeth I
 
 
 
 
I hold the sun to be situated motionless in the center of the revolution of the celestial orbs while the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves about the sun.
Galileo Galilei
 
 
 
 
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realized. But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela – 1918-2013 – Political Leader – Philanthropist – Former President of South Africa
 
 
 
 
That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
 
 
 
 
I come to ask you to help to win this fight. If we win it, this hardest of all fights, then, to be sure, in the future it is going to be made easier for women all over the world to win their fight when their time comes.
Emmeline Pankhurst
 
 
 
 
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Attitude is the little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill – 1874-1965 – Former British Prime Minister
 
 
 
 
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Oprah Winfrey – Actress – Talk Show Host – Producer – Philanthropist
 
 
 
 
No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Demi Lovato – Singer-Actress-Author-Songwriter
 
 
 
 
DEDICATION:
For everyone who has ever felt unworthy, for whatever reason—and we all have at one time or another—a single incident does not define you. Your worth is in the effort you bring to living the best life you can. As wonderful as the achievements are, it is in the striving that you prove yourself. Not that you are perfect or even trying to be perfect, just that you are trying.
Elissa Strati,
Baxter’s Bravery: Hers to Redeem
 
 

Quotes August 13-14, 2023

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Ronald Reagan – 1911-2004 – 40th U.S. President
 
 
 
 
Falling is one of the ways of moving forward.
Merce Cunningham – 1919-2009 – Dancer-Choreographer
 
 
 
 
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
Harry Truman
 
 
 
 
“It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”
Lena Horne
 
 
 
 
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
Nelson Mandela
 
 
 
 
“Don’t be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it!”
Salvador Dalí
 
 
 
 
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn
 
 
 
 
“I believe that you’re here on Earth for a short time, and while you’re here, you shouldn’t forget it.”
Bea Arthur
 
 
 
 
“Independence is happiness.”
Susan B. Anthony
 
 
 
 
“Laughter helps you put everything into perspective.”
Jim Henson
 
 
 
 
“Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.”
Sugar Ray Leonard
 
 
 
 
“It’s a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.”
Abby Wambach
 
 
 
 
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.”
Muhammad Ali
 
 

Quotes August 07, 2023

“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.”
Ella Fitzgerald
 
 
 
 
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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G.K. Chesterton
 
 
 
 
“Passion is what makes life interesting.”
Pat Tillman
 
 
 
 
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
 
 
 
 
“Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it.”
Barbra Streisand
 
 
 
 
“You never teach a subject; you always teach a child.”
Dorothy Height
 
 
 
 
“War is what happens when language fails.”
Margaret Atwood
 
 
 
 
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
They stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment. We stand in solidarity, in unprecedented unity.
Fran Drescher,
actor, writer, current president of SAG-AFTRA
 
 
 
 
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
Benjamin Franklin
 
 
 
 
“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”
Charles Darwin
 
 
 
 
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
Coretta Scott King
 
 
 
 
“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 

Quotes July 13, 2023

“Be True, Love All, Help Others Selflessly, Live in Harmony and Rest in Peace”
“Known is a drop, Unknown is an Ocean”
Ganesh
 
 
 
 
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
Michael J. Fox
 
 
 
 
“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath
 
 
 
 
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clarke
 
 
 
 
“You don’t have to understand things for them to be.”
Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
 
 
 
 
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma”
Eartha Kitt
 
 
 
 
The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
Carlos Castaneda
 
 
 
 
“Just because technology is improving doesn’t mean our humanity is.”
John Lovell
 
 
 
 
Remember: cheap tools aren’t good and good tools aren’t cheap.
Unknown
 
 

Quotes March 25, 2023

We cannot solve a problem with the same mentality that created it.
Albert Einstein – 1879-1955 – Physicist-Nobel Prize Winner
 
 
 
 
“A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 
 
 
“There is a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.”
Andrew Lloyd Webber
 
 
 
 
“There is no deodorant like success.”
Elizabeth Taylor
 
 
 
 
“Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition, he or she has overcome to reach his [or her] goals.”
Dorothy Height
 
 
 
 
“It’s the rough side of the mountain that’s the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn’t have anything for you to hang on to.”
Aretha Franklin
 
 

Quotes January 30 & 31, 2022

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
Rosa Parks
 
 
 
 
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Aristotle
 
 
 
 
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi – 1869-1948 – Indian Lawyer
 
 
 
 
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer,
philosopher
 
 
 
 
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
Jackie Robinson
 
 
 
 
Dogs are our link to paradise.
Milan Kundera
 
 
 
 
I’m aware of no other time management technique that’s half as effective as just facing the way things truly are.
Oliver Burkeman

Quotes December 31, 2021

“No guts, no glory.”
Frederick C. Blesse
 
 
 
 
“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
George Colman
 
 
 
 
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.”
David G. Farragut
 
 
 
 
“Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

“Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”

“The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear it it’s usually lousy.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
 
 
 
“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely his lips, follow me.”
Giuseppe Garibaldi
 
 
 
 
“If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn’t plan your mission properly.”
David Hackworth
 
 
 
 
“I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.”
Nathan Hale
 
 
 
 
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
Heraclitus
 
 
 
 
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”

“It is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it.”
Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“Live for something rather than die for nothing.”

“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country.”

“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

“No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.”
George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Oliver Hazard Perry
 
 
 
 
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
 
 
 
 
“The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
 
 
 
 
“War is hell.”
William Tecumseh Sherman
 
 
 
 
“A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don’t want to do, and like it.”
Harry S. Truman
 
 
 
 
“I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.”
Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
 
 
 
 
“The military don’t start wars. Politicians start wars.”
William C. Westmoreland

Quotes August 09, 2020

“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Colin Powell
 
 
 
 
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more ‘manhood’ to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
Alex Karras
 
 
 
 
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
 
 
 
 
“Our strength grows out of our weaknesses.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
 
 
 
 
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
 
 
 
 
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Stephen King
 
 
 
 
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
 
 
 
 
“Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Calvin Coolidge
 
 
 
 
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
 
 
 
 
There is no such thing as failure, there’s just giving up too soon.
Jonas Salk,
virologist, medical researcher
 
 
 
 
Forgiveness is not about releasing someone from accountability for their actions. It is about us letting go of our anger and resentment.
Unknown

Quotes July 02, 2020

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
 
 
 
 
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 
 
 
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
Leo Buscaglia
 
 
 
 
“If people did not do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
 
 
 
 
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”
Andy Rooney
 
 
 
 
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
 
 
 
 
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“The best revenge is massive success.”
Frank Sinatra
 
 
 
 
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
 
 
 
 
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
Lao Tzu
 
 
 
 
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
Albert Camus
 
 
 
 
“Love is a better teacher than duty.”
Albert Einstein
 
 
 
 
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
 
 
“Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.”
Unknown

Quotes July 01, 2020

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
Aesop
 
 
 
 
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
 
 
 
 
“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha
 
 
 
 
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
Proverb
 
 
 
 
“The best proof of love is trust.”
Joyce Brothers
 
 
 
 
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
Ram Dass
 
 
 
 
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
Robert Hand
 
 
 
 
“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks
 
 
 
 
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
Seneca
 
 
 
 
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank
 
 
 
 
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
Oscar Wilde
 
 
 
 
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anaïs Nin
 
 
 
 
“Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts.”
Unknown