"You just can't beat the person who won't give up."
-- Babe Ruth
"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can
stop after eating one peanut."
-- Channing Pollack
"Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your
mind."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"If people concentrated on the really important things in
life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
-- Doug Larson
"Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in
order to know. Sometimes our vision is clear only after our
eyes are washed away with tears."
-- Unknown
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
-- Bill Watterson
"Life is part positive and part negative. Suppose you went to
hear a symphony orchestra and all they played were the little
happy high notes. Would you leave soon? Let me hear the rumble
of the bass, the crash of the cymbals and the minor keys."
-- Jim Rohn
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if
you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got
to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death,
and therefore you must at the very least think noisy and
colorfully, or you're not alive."
-- Mel Brooks
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed
by belief."
-- Gerry Spence
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do
him absolutely no good."
-- Samuel Johnson
"This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from
it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy
in our great men."
-- Captain J. A. Hadfield
"There are only two kinds of people who are really
fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people
who know absolutely nothing."
-- Oscar Wilde
"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next
generation, it would be the ability for each individual to
learn to laugh at himself."
-- Charles Schulz
"The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to
somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to
your former self."
-- Whitney Young
"Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your
name you'd have to pay cash."
-- Rita Mae Brown
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide
your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your
mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you
control your own destiny."
-- Albert Ellis
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do
doesn't mean it's useless."
-- Thomas Alva Edison
"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be
able to laugh at yourself is maturity."
-- William A. Ward
"Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where
you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become
an overnight success."
-- Diana Rankin
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