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Archives for June 19, 2020
When the state is most corrupt, the laws are most multiplied.
Tacitus (55-117 A. D.) ... [Read More]
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- Dave Brinkley ... [Read More]
It is not the death, it’s the dying that alarms me.
Montaigne (1533-1592) ... [Read More]
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
- Albert Schweitzer ... [Read More]
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
- James Baldwin ... [Read More]
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
- Zig Ziglar ... [Read More]
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is waste neither time or money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; and with them, everything.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right.
- Henry Ford ... [Read More]
Greed is fear itself in its ghoulish form.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few want’s and to serve them one’s self.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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From there to here and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
- Dr. Seuss ... [Read More]
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ... [Read More]
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915) ... [Read More]
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson ... [Read More]
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
- James Allen ... [Read More]
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser (1882-1967) ... [Read More]
All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years; but to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
Joaquin Miller (1839-1913) ... [Read More]
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Richard Whately (1787-1863) ... [Read More]
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
Albert North Whitehead (1861-1947) ... [Read More]
To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894) ... [Read More]
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) ... [Read More]
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) ... [Read More]
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not home and work.
De Maistre (1754-1821) ... [Read More]
O God give us serenity to accept what we can not change; courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) ... [Read More]
Trust yourself. You know more than you think.
Benjamin Spock ... [Read More]
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright ... [Read More]
Intuition is perception via the unconscious.
Carl G. Jung ... [Read More]
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles ... [Read More]
Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never over estimate your power to change others.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. ... [Read More]
Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin.
Victor Kiam ... [Read More]
It is better to deserve honors and not have them then to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain ... [Read More]
The ultimate test of management is performance.
Peter F. Drucker ... [Read More]
Strong hope is much greater stimulant than any single realized joy could be.
Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche ... [Read More]
Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished.
La Rochefoucauld ... [Read More]
Success is never final and failure is never fatal it’s courage that counts.
John Wooden ... [Read More]
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill ... [Read More]
All dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney ... [Read More]
Few things are impracticable in themselves. It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail.
La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) ... [Read More]
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightening, not to be measured by horse-power of the understanding.
Emerson (1803-1882) ... [Read More]
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us the true progress is to know more and be more and to do more.
Lubbock (1834-1913) ... [Read More]
Life teaches us to be less severe with ourselves and others.
Goethe (1749-1832) ... [Read More]
The strictest laws sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Terence (B.C.185-159) ... [Read More]
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant (1885-1981) ... [Read More]
Her name is Health, she is the daughter of Exercise, who begot her Temperance. The rose blusheth on her cheeks, the sweetness of the morning breatheth from her lips; joy tempered with innocence and modesty, sparkleth in her eyes and from the cheerfulness of her heart she singeth as she walketh.
Akhenation? (B.C1375?) ... [Read More]
Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind.
Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) ... [Read More]
Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Buddha (B.C.568-488) ... [Read More]
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) ... [Read More]
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
Talmud (b.C. 400?-500?) ... [Read More]
The childish go after outward pleasures. They walk into the net of widespread death. But the wise knowing immortality, seek not the stable among things which are unstable here
. Upanishads (c. B.C.800) ... [Read More]
In earlier religions the spirit of time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Heine (1797-1856) ... [Read More]
In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Richard Sheridan (1751-1816) ... [Read More]
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, then words without heart.
John Bunyan (1628-1688) ... [Read More]
Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worse cloak.
John Bunyan (1628-1688) ... [Read More]
Heaven is never deaf but when man’s heart is dumb.
Quarles (1592-1644) ... [Read More]
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Shakespeare (1564-1616) ... [Read More]
The gods are the creations of the creator. They are not emanations of The Eternal. They are made by the adoration of the worshipers. It is not the gods that do the work of creation. This is done by the great natural forces working each according to its nature, the gods come into their procession after the egg of manifestation has been laid in the darkness of the cosmic night.
Kabbalah (B.C. 1200?-700?A.D.) ... [Read More]