"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out."- Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920) American Novelist
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"Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out."- Eleanor Porter (1868 - 1920) American Novelist
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.— Arthur C. Clarke
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"Everyone is attempting to make things that have not existed before. And though we could argue till dawn about the utility or significance of what they're creating, I believe that to create or risk failing is the essence of feeling alive - that in the moment of creation they shake off their anonymity and feel relevant to the sweep of the world."- Po Bronson (1964) American journalist
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!
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What makes leadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do and like it. -- Harry Truman
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"What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others."- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860) German philosopher
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See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue
it resolutely.-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright
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"It is not what he has which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881) Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic
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"You, enlightened, self-sufficient, self-governed, endowed with gifts above your fellows, the world expects you to produce as well as to consume, to add to and not to subtract from its store of good, to build up and not to tear down, to ennoble and not degrade. The time is short, the opportunity is great; therefore, crowd the hours with the best that is in you."- John Hibben, , 1913 graduation address president of Princeton University
" The best that is in you!" - nice
"Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat."- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
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"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) English Novelist
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"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."- Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907 - 1972) American Jewish theologian