quotes again

"Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your; embrace her and she will honor you." Proverbs 4: 7-8


"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."


The human heart can go to the lengths of God. Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.Thank God our time is now when wrongComes up to face us everywhere,Never to leave us till we takeThe longest stride of soul [we humans] ever took.Affairs are now soul size.The enterprise Is exploration into God.Where are you making for? It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity’s sake? A Sleep of Prisoners (Epilogue)


"Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer." Ernest Holmes


"Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired." -Richard Kemph


People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


"The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture." Publius Ovidius NasoOvid


“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt


The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside. -Robert Stuberg



Respect human talent, respond to genius, recognize reality, admire truth and beauty, realize the meaning of the rare flower Reason. -Peter Nivio Zarlenga, The Orator, "Flight", 1977


"We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd." Anon.


No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake


"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner


It gets to be part of your everyday routine. I expect to be there on Sunday. I expect to be there at practice. I think back to when I first started school in the first grade and how long it seemed to take to go from first through 12th. You figure in ninth grade you're never going to get out of high school, and you couldn't wait. Here I am in my 14th year and going on 13 for not missing basically a day of school… Part of it is being able to escape injury, overcome some injuries but also be able to play at a high enough level for so long to still be here doing it. The streak itself doesn't stand out to me that it's something I have to continue. As long as I'm a Green Bay Packer, I expect to play. I expect to help this team win and be a tremendous leader. And I expect that to continue until the day I don't play here anymore. commenting on his consecutive-game streak (211 at the time of this article)
-Brett Favre, article by John McClain, "Houston Chronicle", September 26, 2004


"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do." -Henry Ford



To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France


"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."
-David Lloyd George


"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." -Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"


"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
-Langston Hughes


"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become."
-Harold Taylor


"We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.' We have to get out of this room." -Robert Francis Kennedy


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden (chapter 18)


We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, from “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”


Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain



"Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Robert Francis Kennedy


"An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition."
-Michael Korda


We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below? -George Sand


"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen." -Robert L. Schwartz



He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man…. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2



From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,And when at last the fight is won,God, keep me still unsatisfied. Louis Untermeyer, Prayer (last verse)



"If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it."
-William Arthur Ward



No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.
-Tiger Woods