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~ No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, ifone has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ~

William James 1842

~ Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age. ~

Albert Einstein

~ To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed. ~

Bernard Edmonds

~ If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ~

Arthur Schlesinger

~ Discourage litigation. Persuade you neighbors to compromise whenever you can ... As a peace-maker the lawyer has a superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. ~

Abraham Lincoln 1809

~ To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony. ~

William Ellery Channing 1780

~ I have found that a large percentage of the population operates under a dangerous illusion - the illusion that the world's problems are too big and too complex for one individual to make a difference. But I believe one person can make a difference. My dad always told me, 'We're here to inspire each other, to bring out the best in each other, and the only way we can do that is to care about each other.' ~

Ray Gatchalian

~ Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely. ~

Golda Meir 1898

~ Moral courage and character go hand in hand .... a man of real character is consistently courageous, being imbued with a basic integrity and a firm sense of principle. ~

Martha Boaz

~ Without winter, there can be no spring. Without mistakes, there can be no learning. Without doubts, there can be no faith. Without fears, there can be no courage. My mistakes, my fears and my doubts are my path to wisdom. ~

Unknown

~ Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. ~

William Shakespeare

~ It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. ~

Les Brown

~ Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. ~

Rabindranath Tagore

~ Without justice, courage is weak. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. ~

Anna Garlin Spencer

~ What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace. ~

Agnes M. Pharo

~ Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. ~

Mary Tyler Moore

~ Decision is the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothing happens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if they are not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered. ~

Wilfred A. Peterson

~ It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~

Author Unknown

~ There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom. ~

Cornelius Otis Skinner

~ No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. ~

Florida Scott-Maxwell

~ The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. ~

Madeleine L\'Engle

~ Live your life and forget your age. ~

Norman Vincent Peale

~ You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~

Garrison Keillor

~ A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~

Robert Frost

~ Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~

Christopher Morley

~ A man of courage is also full of faith. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth ~

Albert Einstein

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