Positive Quote Of The Day August 2009

[pjbs35a]

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

-- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American Poet

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

-- Marya Mannes (1904-1990) American Journalist

[Jeff]

Good one!
That means there have been times in my life when I have been very stupid!

[pdrlkr]

Thanks Frankie! :thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish Dramatist and Poet

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

-- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English Essayist

[vizsla]

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) English Poet

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach
them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try
to follow where they lead.

-- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) American Writer

[Jeff]

Nice one!

[Mousemates]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.
-- Dr. Frank Richards (1875-1961) English Writer

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance and determination.

-- Sir Frederick Treves (1853-1923) English Surgeon

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand

[Jeff]

A dose of Ayn Rand seems appropriate about now!

[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward

[pjbs35a]

"Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die." -- Abraham Lincoln

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.
-- Jean Anouilh

[ibrowse17]

Very true, thanks:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963) English Novelist

[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Mousemates]

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[pjbs35a]

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

[ibrowse17]

Thank you:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist

[vizsla]

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[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

-- James Lane Allen (1849-1925) American Author

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[ibrowse17]

Thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.-- Charlotte Bronte

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

-- Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian Missionary

[ibrowse17]

Nice, thanks:thumbsup:

[Mousemates]

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.-- Charlotte Bronte

good one!

[Jeff]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

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 (1893-1979) Canadian Actress

[Mousemates]

super quote :thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

So true, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

-- Chinese proverb

[Mousemates]

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

-- Chinese proverb

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[ibrowse17]

Nice, thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to "jump at the Sun." We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

-- Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) American Writer

[Jeff]

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[ibrowse17]

Good one, thanks:thumbsup:

[pjbs35a]

If not us, who? If not now, when?
Kennedy, John F.

[Jeff]

Still true!:thumbsup:

[ibrowse17]

Nice:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

-- Arland Gilbert

[Mousemates]

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

-- Arland Gilbert

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[Jeff]

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[pjbs35a]

Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.

-- Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer

[Mousemates]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

[Mousemates]

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.

-- Persian saying, Ancient

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

-- Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) American Publisher

[Mousemates]

I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.

-- Persian saying, Ancient

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[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

-- Vauvenargues

[ibrowse17]

So true, thank you:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.
Albert Camus

[ibrowse17]

Interesting, thanks:thumbsup:

[vizsla]

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[pjbs35a]

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.-- Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American Psychologist

[vizsla]

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