Wisdom and Sayings
"A world of we, not a world of me."
-- Michael Moore
Of all the knowledge in the world, I know but a drop in the ocean.
-- Daemon Bernstein
To find truth, a person has to truly want it in their heart.
-- A fool said this in a moment of wisdom.
Mind is the Master power that moulds and makes,
And Man is Mind, and evermore he takes
The tool of Thought, and, shaping what he wills,
Brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills;
He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass:
Environment is but his looking-glass.
-- James Allen
As A Man Thinketh
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
-- James Allen
Love is as fragile as your tears; Love is stronger than your fears.
-- unknown (from a song I heard)
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- General George S. Patton
"Some people are born very far from home."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on
walking.
-- Buddhist Saying
A State of War Only Serves as an Excuse for Domestic Tyranny.
-- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The more laws people make, the less freedom they have.
-- anonymous
Someday I'll be perfect. But not today.
-- anonymous
Your thoughts become your words,
your words become your actions,
your actions become your habits,
your actions become your character,
your character becomes your destiny.
The opposite of success is not failure, it's quitting. Move from failure to failure with great enthusiasm and you will succeed.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Myth: Education = Good Job = Success.
- unknown
The reward for working hard is more hard work.
- unknown
"I've been rich and I've
been poor, and the one reason a lot of people get rich is they've been
poor enough to hate it"
-- Dexter Yager
"I've had people tell me I'm materialistic. I say you're either
materialistic or you're a nudist."
-- Success magazine interview with Dexter Yager, 1994
Two natures beat within my breast.
The one is cursed, the other is blessed.
The one I love, the other I hate.
The one I feed will dominate.
- unknown U.S. Marine
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- unknown
An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because the people refuse to see it.
- James Michener, "SPACE"
A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, & no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right & privilege of any free American.
-
Edward Abbey
You can't walk a mile with one step. But you can with many steps.
- anonymous
A woman inspires us to do great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
- Dumas
All hat and no bull...
- anonymous
Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.
- From the book of Proverbs in the Bible, chapter 4, verse 7
Man has dominated man to his injury.
- From the book of Jeremiah in the Bible
History admires the wise, but it elevates the brave.
- Edmund Morris
"There are so many kinds of riches, and only one of them is gold."
- From the movie, "Good News"
Its ok to look back, just don't stare.
- unknown
A prayer...
The great earth and the great heaven, please give me wisdom, courage, knowledge and love. Amen
- anonymous
Fear is the mind killer.
- unknown
If you really want something you find a way. If you dont you find an excuse.
- unknown
Con-gress and Pro-gress
Congress starts with con, and is full of cons. Progress starts with pro,
and is nonexistent and believed to be unprofitable, although that is not true.
- unknown
Law at the expense the United States Constitution is unconstitutional.
- anonymous
Law at the expense of justice is criminal.
- unknown
In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A dream is unrehearsed.
- Yehudi Menuhin
What you treasure most is in your heart.
- Anonymous
Only the teachable learn.
- Anonymous
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Abhez
A man is only as old as the woman he feels.
-Groucho Marx
Concerning Free Enterprise
� Communism: You own two cows. The government takes both and gives you part of the milk.
� Socialism: You own two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
� Jobism: Your employer owns two cows. He pays you a dime to milk the cows and sells the milk for a dollar. He keeps both the cows and all the profits.
� Capitalism: You own two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
- Burke Hedges
All man's gains are the fruit of venturing.
- Herodotus
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
- John D. Rockefeller
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
-- Albert Einstein
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
- Voltaire
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Dr. Martin Luthor King Jr.
Things do come to those who wait, but only things left over from those that hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
All glory comes from daring to begin.
- Eugene F. Ware
The impossible is often the untried.
- Jim Goodwin
Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
- William Shakespeare
He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
- Confucius
A man's mind, whether cultivated or neglected, must and will bring forth.
-James Allen
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin; 1903-1977
Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.
- Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough.
- Benjamin Franklin
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Good judgement comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes from bad judgement.
- Anonymous
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
- John Lilly
Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov
Man is a credulous animal and must believe something. In the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
- Anonymous
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something.
- Robert Browning
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile.
- Mary Beard
If we don't discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
- William Feather
No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
- Gerard
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
- Flower A. Newhouse
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- E. Hubbard
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher Von Braun
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Ambrose Bierce
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward.
- Anonymous
Begin growing from where you are- not from where others think you ought to be by now.
- Steven Douglas Lawrence
Upbeat News for a good Atitude
Whittier, Alaska Sunrises Fall 1996