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Eileen's Compendium of Really Neat Quotes, Poems and other random stuff Let your watchword be duty, and know no other talisman of success that labor. Let honor be your guiding star, in your dealings with your superiors, your fellows, with all. Be as true to a trust reposed as the needle to the pole. Stand by the right, even to the sacrifice of life itself, and learn that death is preferable to dishonor. ~Gov. Coke of Texas Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ~Calvin Coolidge Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. ~Horace Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"...God said, "I did do something. I made you." ~Sufi Teaching Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. ~Karen Ravn There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is. ~Albert Einstein If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. ~Chinese Proverb No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. ~Aesop I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings. ~The Buddha There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle. ~Anonymous You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. ~Han Suyin Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. ~Goethe Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. ~John Ruskin Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ~Cadet Maxim, West Point Military Academy To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~E.E. Cummings To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. ~Benjamin Franklin No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. ~Phillips Brooks I hope my achievements in life shall be these: That I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, that I will have given help to those who were in need... That I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been. ~C. Hoppe Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ~Mahatma Ghandi People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway. Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. ~Unknown Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. ~George Bernard Shaw May you live all the days of your life. ~Jonathan Swift Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ~Storm Jameson It is not he critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them 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 short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who 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 timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~Booker T. Washington To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~Theodore Roosevelt If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King Jr. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. ~Charles Swindoll Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. ~Dale Carnegie The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~Lao Tzu Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you are right. ~Henry Ford I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~Stephan Grellet Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." ~Marianne Williamson, from her book "Return to Love" When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen "Out of Solitude" We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. ~Woodrow Wilson Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. ~Robert F. Kennedy The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~Hellen Keller Nine requisites for contented living Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, they make them. ~George Bernard Shaw Do more than exist, live. Do more than touch, feel. Do more than look, observe. Do more than read, absorb. Do more than hear, listen. Do more than listen, understand. Do more than think, ponder. Do more than talk, say something. ~John H. Rhoades Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. ~Athenaeus My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. ~Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ~Albert Einstein Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. ~Albert Einstein Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor... Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting ~Mother Teresa Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there ~Will Rogers Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be ~Abraham Lincoln It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. ~Warren Buffet What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Sometimes things are true whether you believe in them or not. ~Seth in City of Angels It's the little things we do and say that mean so much as we go our way. One kindly deed can lift a load, from weary shoulders on the road. ~Willa Hoey Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, And finds in your presence that life is worth while, So when you are lonely, remember it's true: Somebody, somewhere is thinking of you. ~Unknown When you know exactly what you're working toward, and you are confident that your efforts will get you there, then you'll do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to reach the goal. ~Ralph Marston Believe In Yourself You are your greatest asset there is nothing you can't do. No one can keep you from dreaming only you can stop them coming true. Your achievements are determined by the desire that you possess. Believe in who you are. Believe in what you do. It's not a quirk of fate It's strictly up to you. ~Unknown Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is impossible for others, does not have to be for you. Look for things which can't or won't be done. Be the one who makes them happen, and reap their enormous value. ~Ralph Marston Prayer To Mary Oh! Mary, Queen of Martys, take care of these children of mine wherever they may be. Walk in them. Talk with them during the silent watches of the night, and spur them to courage. Transfer my prayers to their hearts. Keep my children inspired by a never dying faith in God. Throughout all the long days, wherever duty takes them, keep their spirits high. They are my choicest treasures, so take care of them, Mother of God. If- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream-and not make dreams you master; If you can think and not make thoughts you aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at you beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: Hold on; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son! ~Rudyard Kipling When I dare to be powerful- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether or not I am afraid. ~Audre Lorde Where There's A Will There's A Way We have faith in old proverbs full surely, For wisdom has traced what they tell, And truth may be drawn upon as purely From them, as it may from a well. Let us question the thinkers and doers, And hear what they honestly say; And you'll find they believe, like bold wooers, In where there's a will there's a will there's a way. The hills have been high for man's mounting, The woods have been dense for his axe, The stars have been thick for his counting, The sands have been wide for his tracks. The sea has been deep for his diving, The poles have been road for his sway, But bravely he's proved in his striving, That where there's a will there's a way. Have ye vices that ask a destroyer? Or passions that need your control? Let Reason be your employer, And body be ruled by your soul. Fight on, though ye bleed in the trial, Resist with all strength that ye may; Ye may conquer sin's host by denial; For where there's a will there's a way. Have ye poverty's pinching to cope with? Does suffering weigh down your might? Only call up a spirit to hope with, And dawn may come out of the night. Oh! much may be done by defying The ghosts of Despair and Dismay; And much may be gained by relying On where there's a will there's a way. Should ye see afar off that worth winning, Set out on the journey with trust; And ne'er heed if your path at beginning Should be among brambles and dust. Though it is but by footsteps ye do it. And hardships may hinder and stay, Walk with faith, and be sure you'll get through it; For where there's a will there's a way. ~Eliza Cook Always Finish If a task is once begun Never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small, Do it well, or not at all. Don't Quit... When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, When the funds are low and the debts are high, And you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit-- Rest if you must, but don't quit. Life is strange with it's twists and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns. And many a fellow turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out. Don't give up though the pace seems slow-- You may succees with another blow. Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a fair and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor's cup; And he learned too late when the night came down, How close he was to the golden crown. Success is failure turned inside out-- The silver tint on the clouds of doubt, And you never can tell how close you are, It may be near when it seems so afar; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,-- It's when things seem worst that you musn't quit. ~Unknown The Fighter I fight a battle every day Against discouragement and fear; Some foe stands in my way, The path is never clear! I must forever be on guard Against the doubts that skulk along; I get ahead by fighting hard, But fighting keeps my spirit strong. I hear the croakings of Despair, The dark predictions of the weak; I find myself pursued by Care, No matter what the end I seek; My victories are small and few, It matters not how hard I strive; Each day the fight begins anew, But fighting keeps my hopes alive. My dreams are spoiled by circumstance, My plans are wrecked by Fate or Luck; Some hour, perhaps, will bring my chance, But that great hour has never struck; My progress has been hard and slow, I've had to climb and crawl and swim, Fighting for every stubborn yard; But I have kept in fighting trim. I have to fight my doubts away And be on guard against my fears; The feeble croaking of Dismay Has been familiar through the years; My dearest plans keep going wrong, Events combine to thwart my will; But fighting keeps my spirit strong, And I am undefeated still! ~S.E. Kiser A Winner's Creed If you think you are beaten, You are; If you think you dare not, You don't If you'd like to win, but think you can't, It's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, You're lost; For out in the world we find, Success begins with a person's faith; It's all in the state of mind. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster hand; They go to the one who trusts in God, And always thinks I Can. ~Unknown It Couldn't Be Done Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That maybe it couldn't, but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew he'd begun it. With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, Without any doubting or quiddit, He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Just take off your coat and go to it; Just start to sing as you tackle the thing That cannot be done, and you'll do it. ~Edgar A. Guest Be The Best Of Whatever You Are If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley-but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass, And some highway happier make; If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass- But be the liveliest bass in the lake! We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew, There's something for all of us here, There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do, And the task you must do is the near. If you can't be a highway then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are! ~Douglas Malloch Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, time past, the neglected opportunity. ~Omar Ibnal-Halif For anything you want to attain, there are many ways to get there. When one path becomes blocked, don't turn back. Instead, take a detour! ~Ralph Marston This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw The minimum wouldn't be the minimum if it wasn't good enough. ~Stacy Martinez Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. After all, you don't have to live forever, you just have to live. ~"Tuck Everlasting" Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill each other if it is not done. ~George Bernard Shaw From "Major Barbara" These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated. ~exerpt from Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis"
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