| " Never give in, never
give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty,
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."
- Sir Winston Churchill, October , 1941 |
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| "A pessimist sees
the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| "Nothing in the world
can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common
than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press
on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge |
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| "If you don't like
something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think
about it!"
- unknown |
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| "When you reach
the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-Thomas Jefferson |
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| "In the end, we will
remember not the words of our enemies, but
the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| "Few things are harder
to put up with than a good example."
-Mark Twain |
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| "Always do right -
this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain |
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| "Ten people who speak
make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
- Napoleon Bonaparte |
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| "Whether you think
you can or think you can't, you're right."
- Henry Ford |
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| "Experience is not
what happens to a man. It is what a man does with
what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley |
| "No one can make you
feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "It takes a genius
to whine appealingly."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| "The mediocre teacher
tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires."
- William Arthur Ward |
| "Don't walk in front
of me, I may not follow - Don't walk behind me, I
may not lead - Just walk beside me and be my friend."
- unknown |
| "I am quite sure now
that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's
reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
- Mark Twain |
| "An appeaser is one
who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
- unknown |
| "Oh, we have a home
- We just need a house to put it in."
- 10 year old homeless girl |
| "To know someone here
or there with whom you can feel there is understanding
in spite of distances or thoughts expressed ~ That can make life a garden."
- Goethe |
| "It is hard to fail,
but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
-Theodore Roosevelt |
| "It's the action,
not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right
thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll
be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You
may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing,
there will be no result."
- Gandhi |
| " Man has his
will - but woman has her way."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "The only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| "There are more instances
of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent
encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation."
-James Madison |
| "I myself have never
been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people
call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate
me from a doormat."
- Rebecca West |
| "Of all tyrannies
a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral
busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity
may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience."
- C.S. Lewis |
| "It is far better
to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all
doubt."
- Mark Twain |
| "Our lives begin to
end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| " Two of the greatest
gifts we can ever give our children are roots and wings."
- Hodding Carter |
| "I do not feel obliged
to believe that the same God who has endowed us with
sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei |
| " Men never do evil
so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from
religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| "When the missionaries
came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us
pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they
had the land."
- Bishop Desmond Tutu |
| "The most important
political office is that of private citizen."
- Louis Brandeis |
| "First they went after
the Communists, and I did not stand up, because I was not a Communist.
Then they went after the homosexuals and infirm, and I did not stand up,
because I was neither. Then they went after the Jews, and I did not stand
up, because I was not a Jew. Then they went after the Catholics,
and I did not stand up, because I was Protestant. Finally, they came after
me and there was no one left to stand up for me."
- Pastor Martin Neimoller |
| "True lovers and real
friends don't keep score. "
- a wise but anonymous source |
| " Every evil has its
remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a
dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt,
the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."
- Kahlil Gibran |
| " Learn the words
of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live
them - but do not make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what
he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books."
- Kahlil Gibran |
| " He who does not
seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to truth and makes him evil,
stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man."
- Kahlil Gibran |
| " Every government
degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people
themselves are its only safe depositories."
- Thomas Jefferson. |
| " When governments
fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there
is tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson |
| "This year will go
down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration.
Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will
follow our lead into the future!"
- Adolf Hitler 1935 |
| " With this piece
of paper bearing his signature I have secured for us, peace in our time."
- Chamberlain (discussing the peace treaty he signed with Hitler in 1938) |
| "What makes it so
plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity
can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only
crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of
radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
- Hannah Arendt |
| "Immature love says:
'I love you because I need you' - Mature love says: 'I need you because
I love you'. "
-Erich Fromm |
| "Nothing is so strong
as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."
-Ralph W. Sockman |
| "The greatest happiness
of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves."
-Victor Hugo |
| "Moral certainty is
always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the
surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All
human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted
the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried
to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant,
in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."
- H.L.Mencken |
| "The harder the conflict,
the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too
lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the
man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and
grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink;
but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death."
-Thomas Paine |
| "A hundred years from
now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house
I lived in, or the kind of car I drove, but the world may be different
because I was important in the life of a child."
- Forest Witcraft |
| "You've got to dance
like no one's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt."
– Unknown |
| "I like pigs. Dogs
look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
– Winston Churchill |
| "To laugh often and
much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children,
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the
world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed
social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you
have lived. This is to have succeeded!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The same sun that
melts the wax hardens the clay."
- unknown |
| "Intelligence is like
a river... the deeper it flows, the less noise it makes."
- unknown |
| "It requires wisdom
to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippman |
| "If Hitler were to
invade Hell, I would find occasion to make a favorable reference to the
devil."
-Winston Churchill |
| "I think there is
choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no
sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does
not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice."
-Muriel Rukeyser |
| "Friendship is the
hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in
school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really
haven't learned anything."
-Muhammad Ali |
| "Most people are about
as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln |
| "The remarkable thing
is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for
that day. We cannot change our past ... we cannot change the fact that
people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The
only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude
... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how
I react to it. And so it is with you ... We are in charge of our
attitudes."
- Charles Swindoll |
| " Don't go around
saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing ... It was
here first."
- Mark Twain |
| "Minds are like parachutes
... they only function when open."
- Thomas Dewar |
| "I never make the
mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
- Edward Gibbons |
| " Beware the fury
of a patient man."
- Publius Syrus |
| " My grandfather once
told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and
those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group ...
there was much less competition."
- Indira Gandhi |
| " The people I'm furious
with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes
and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. It's true, but it should
be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket."
- Anita Loos |
| " Being powerful is
like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
- Margaret Thatcher |
| " If you have made
mistakes ... there is always another chance for you ... you may have a
fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not
the falling down but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford |
| " Children have never
been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed
to imitate them."
- James Baldwin |
| " Your school may
have done away with the winners and losers, but the world has not.
In some schools they have abolished failing grades. They'll give you as
many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course,
doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to anything in real life."
- Charles J. Sykes |
| " Flipping burgers
is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different term for
'burger flipping' - they called it 'an opportunity.' "
- Charles J. Sykes |
| "The influence of
each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality."
- John Quincy Adams |
| " The world would be a very silent place
if no birds sang, except those who sang best."
- Bernard Meltzer |
| " You can always tell a true friend, when
you make a fool of yourself he doesn't think you've done a permanent job."
- Lawrence J. Peter |
| "May you always find three welcomes in life,
in a garden during summer, at a fireside during winter, and whatever the
day or season, in the kind eyes of a friend."
- Unknown |
| "Many people will walk in and out of your
life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart."
- Unknown |
| "Beautiful young people are accidents of
nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
- Unknown |
| "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery,
today is a gift."
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "Some people grin and bear it. Others smile
and change it."
- Unknown |
| " I'm a great believer in luck, and I find
the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson |
| " If good things must come to an end don't
cry because they are over, smile because they ever happened."
- Unknown |
| "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences
attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of
it."
-Thomas Jefferson |
| "When I stand before God at the end of my
life I would hope I have not a single bit of talent left and can say 'I
used everything you gave me'."
- Erma Bombeck |
| " There is a fountain of youth: it is your
mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives
of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly
have defeated age."
-Sophia Loren |
| " Whatever a woman undertakes she must do
twice as well as a man to be thought half as good ... luckily, this is
not difficult."
-Charlotte Whitton |
| This next one is most definitely
my all time favourite.. and from one of my all time favourite people...
" The only real disability in life is a bad attitude." - Scott Hamilton |
| "Those who do not know how to weep with
their whole heart don’t know how to laugh
either."
– Golda Meir |
| "God gave us our memories so that we might
have roses in December."
- J.M. Barrie |
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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching
consequence of the submission to authority."
- Unknown |
| " No man is good enough to govern another
man without that other's consent."
- Abraham Lincoln |
| "Commitment is not demonstrated by doing
everything right but it’s the decision to hang in there through failure."
- Unknown |
| "Children are remarkably perceptive. Their
eyes ever observe, their ears ever listen, and their minds ever process
the messages they absorb. If they see us patiently provide a happy atmosphere
for family members, they will imitate that attitude for the rest of their
lives. The wise parent realizes that every day the building blocks are
being laid for the child's future. "
-Unknown |
| "The difference between the impossible and
the possible lies in a man's determination."
-Unknown |
| "Life is not measured by the number of breaths
we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
- Jim Beasley |
| "To engage in war is always to pick a wild
card. And war must always be a last resort, not a first choice. I truly
must question the judgment of any President who can say that a massive
unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over 50% children is "in
the highest moral traditions of our country".
- U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, February 12 2003 |
| "Even if it were desirable, America is not
strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is
made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny
at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars
and guns. Persuasion and
example are the methods taught by the Carpenter of Nazareth, and if we believe in Christianity we should try to advance our ideals by his methods. We cannot practice might and force abroad and retain freedom at home. We cannot talk world cooperation and practice power politics." - Rep. Howard Buffet ®, Sen. Robert Taft's Campaign Mgr., 1952 |
| "Courage is what it takes to stand up and
speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
- Sir Winston Churchill |
| "If future generations are to remember us
with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles
of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the
beginning, not just after we got through with it."
- President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Patriotism is supporting your country all
the time, and your government when it deserves it."
- Mark Twain |
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