QUOTES

2008-12-10T02:29:00.001-08:00

Most of us miss out on life's big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel.Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we're all eligible for life's smallpleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four-poundbass. A full moon. An empty parking space. A crackling fire. A greatmeal. A glorious sunset. Hot soup. Cold beer. -- Anonymous

2008-08-21T03:03:00.001-07:00

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are... Let me notpass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. One day Ishall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in my pillow, orstretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more thanall the world, your return. -- Mary Jean Iron

2008-08-02T04:11:00.001-07:00

"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common." Satchel Paige

2008-07-23T02:52:00.001-07:00

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicingfor this, I was training for this. -- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

CV

2008-07-21T01:17:00.000-07:00

"Methinks that if you don't take the time to lay down its foundation accordingly, Memory Lane won't be much of a road later in life; not long enough, nor wide enough. One thing is for sure: it is a one-way street and there is no going back. Those carelessly discarded yesterdays will haunt us all."

Chuckie V

2008-07-11T04:22:00.001-07:00

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th. -- J. Andrews

2008-06-11T01:53:00.003-07:00

Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially ifit is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery...It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man. -- Passage from Life of Christ

2008-06-11T01:53:00.001-07:00

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the greattemptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But thereal struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is beingdecided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, youshall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be madeexcept by a steady, long continued process. -- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

2008-06-11T01:52:00.001-07:00

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finallyget the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of lifehere on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled andelevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for ourbrief but intrinsic participation with it. (From her biography ofnaturalist Eustace Conway.) -- Elizabeth Gilbert

2008-06-11T01:51:00.003-07:00

The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up everytime we fall. -- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

2008-06-11T01:51:00.001-07:00

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject tohalf the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessnessfor fear of what might happen. -- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

2008-06-11T01:50:00.002-07:00

The self is not something that one finds. It is something that onecreates. -- Thomas Szasz (1920-) American Psychiatrist

2008-06-11T01:50:00.001-07:00

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches"ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. -- Herbert Kaufman

2008-06-11T01:49:00.003-07:00

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to behonorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: tocount, to stand for something, to have made some difference that youlived at all. -- Leo C. Rosten (1908-1977) American Writer

2008-06-11T01:49:00.001-07:00

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as themost beautiful. -- Sigmund Freud

2008-06-11T01:48:00.002-07:00

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not actrightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we havethose because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. -- Aristotle

2008-06-11T01:48:00.001-07:00

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out ourcourage and strength. -- Anonymous

2008-06-11T01:47:00.003-07:00

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. -- Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

2008-06-11T01:47:00.001-07:00

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is whatmakes it permanent. -- Marilyn vos Savant 1946-NA

2008-06-11T01:46:00.001-07:00

Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definitestandard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strivemightily toward that goal. -- Harold E. Stassen

2006-10-18T13:55:00.000-07:00

Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the
requisites for success.

-- Alonzo Newton Benn

2006-10-13T05:05:00.000-07:00

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it.

-- Chinese proverb

2006-10-11T05:27:00.000-07:00

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness
for fear of what might happen.

-- Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

2006-10-02T04:10:00.000-07:00

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock
of inertia.

-- Alexis Carrel

2006-09-30T04:11:00.000-07:00

All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are
keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take
advantage of a situation.

2006-09-18T05:03:00.000-07:00

Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier
effort is not worth the gathering.

-- Sextus Propertius (50BC-16AD) Roman Poet

2006-09-15T04:12:00.000-07:00

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets
up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The
saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world,
himself a light.

-- Felix Adler

2006-09-12T05:02:00.000-07:00

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to
do.

-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

2006-09-12T04:08:00.000-07:00

There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true
nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

-- Hindu proverb

2006-09-09T04:09:00.000-07:00

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced
courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

-- W.J. Slim

2006-09-04T04:08:00.000-07:00

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance
to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most
height.

-- Buddha

2006-09-04T04:07:00.000-07:00

The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to
be what you wish to be thought to be - quoted in Cicero, 44 BC

2006-09-03T04:10:00.000-07:00

Dare Greatly!
It is not he critic who counts nor the man who points out how the strong man tumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. Who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat!

Theodore Roosevelt

2006-09-02T04:10:00.000-07:00

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist