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"It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds."
--Aesop"Judge not according to the appearance."
--John 7: 24"There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly
lacking."
--Bliss Carmen"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
--Thomas Jefferson"Don't be humble. You're not that great."
--Golda Meir"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent."
--Robert Copeland"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions."
--Confucius"There is no failure except in no longer trying."
--Elbert Hubbard"The impossible is often the untried."
--Jim Goodwin"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present."
--James Petersen"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you."
--Mae West"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose."
--Benjamin Lipson"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue."
--Alice Duer Miller"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
--Carl Rogers"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone else has got to say."
--Elizabeth C. Gaskell"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
--Moliere"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps."
--Henry Ford"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently."
--Agnes de Mille"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
--Woodrow Wilson"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault."
--Thomas Fuller"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman"God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest."
--J.G. Holland"What else are we gonna live by if not dreams?"
--Jill Robinson"I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
--Henry David Thoreau"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."
--Douglas Everett"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
--Jean-Paul Sartre"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen."
--Marge Piercy"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom."
--Scottish proverb". . . this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down, but the staying down."
--Mary Pickford"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do."
--John Holt"Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming."
--Johannn von Goethe"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
--Publius"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
--Orson Rega Card"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket."
--Frank M. Hubbard"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
--Eric Hoffer"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss."
--Diane Ravitch"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow."
--Horace"The trouble with being punctual is that there's nobody there to appreciate it. "
--Franklin P. Jones"We live in a mobile home. Hey, there are advantages to living in a mobile home. One time, it caught on fire. We met the fire department half way. "
-- Ronnie Shakes"If you're going through hell, keep going."
-- Winston Churchill"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
-- Charles A. Beard"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right."
--Edward Simmons"The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days."
--M.M. Coady"I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of
someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead."
--Anita Baker"The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me."
--Kate Capshaw"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
--Thomas Jefferson"The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often."
--Laura Palmer"Let the past drift away with the water."
--Japanese sayingBe yourself and wear what you like:
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
--Quentin Crisp"If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?"
--Fran Lebowitz-----------------------------------------------
"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right."
--Jill Ruckleshaus"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others."
--Blaise Pascal