Positive Quote Of The Day March 2011

[pjbs35a]

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking
part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting
well.
-- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled
by, And that has made all the difference.
-- Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
-- Jack London

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.
-- Chinese proverb

[Mousemates]

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[Jeff]

Good one!:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a
weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting
winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and
forever true.
-- Edward R. Lyman

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing
finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
-- Frank Knox

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form
of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to
regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed
upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should
not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like
Aaron's rod, with flowers.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
-- James A. Garfield

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
-- Thomas A. Kempis

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

Good one!

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find
yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which
no other man can ever know.
-- Joseph Conrad

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.
They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
-- Anatole France

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Children need models rather than critics.
-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in."
-- Washington Gladden

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in
your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry
of life.
-- Sir William Osler (1849-1919) Canadian Physician

[Jeff]

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[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.
-- Francis Bacon

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

... A human activity having for its purpose the transmission of the
highest and best feelings to which men have risen. (on the purpose of
art).
-- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian Novelist

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
-- William Mather Lewis

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but
progress.
-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which
lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles
up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
-- Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer

[pjbs35a]

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.
-- Anonymous

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.
-- George P. Burnham

[pjbs35a]

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

[Jeff]

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Great thought!

[pjbs35a]

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them
master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

"Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid." ~Earl Nightingale

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read
some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
-- Charles Darwin

[Jeff]

I'm not so sure about the poetry!!!!!!

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is
one less scoundrel in the world.
-- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven
for?
-- Robert Browning

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great
temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the
real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being
decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you
shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made
except by a steady, long continued process.
-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop