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Quote 8"Hold fast to dreams / For if dreams
die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly."
-- Langston Hughes
Quote 15"Give a man a fish and you feed him
for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
-- Chinese proverb
Quote 20"Thinking is the hardest work there
is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
-- Henry Ford
Quote 22"The reason a dog has so many
friends is that he wags his tail and not his tongue."
-- Unknown
Quote 26"We haven't failed. We now know a
thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding
what will."
-- Thomas Edison
Quote 30"No individual has any right to come
into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him
distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."
-- George Washington Carver
Quote 31"We may all have come on different
ships, but we're in the same boat now."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote 32"Choose your socks by their color
and your friends by their character. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense. Choosing your friends by their
color is unthinkable.“
-- Unknown
Quote 34"Each life is like a letter of the
alphabet. Alone it can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a
great meaning."
-- Unknown
Quote 40"Friendship with oneself is all
important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone
else in the world."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote 41"People don't get along because they fear each other. People fear
each other because they don't know each other. They don't know each other because they have not properly communicated with each
other."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote 42"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any
direction you choose.You're on your own.
And you know what you know.And you are the guy
Who'll decide where you go."
-- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!
Quote 43"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster
than labor wears, while the used key is always bright."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Quote 46"The trouble with life isn't that there
is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."
-- Ruth Benedict, anthropologist
Quote 48"A failure is a man who has
blundered but is not able to cash in the experience."
-- Elbert Hubbard
Quote 49"One machine can do the work of 50
ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary
man."
-- Elbert Hubbard
Quote 51"If a man empties his purse into his
head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in
knowledge always pays the best interest."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Quote 52"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument
as one goes on.…"
-- Samuel Butler
Quote 54"This thing we call 'failure' is not the
falling down but the staying down."
-- Mary Pickford
Quote 57"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first,
the lesson afterwards."
-- Vernon Saunders Law
Quote 58"For all of us today, the battle is in
our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There
are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick
solutions. We must keep going."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
Quote 59"Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything into it, you don't get
anything out of it."
-- W.C. Handy
Quote 61"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you
are slightly cracked."
-- Bernard Meltzer
Quote 62"Truth may be stretched but cannot
be broken. It always gets above falsehood as oil does above
water."
-- Miguel de Cervantes
Quote 63"Each time a man stands up for an
ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope and, crossing each
other from a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest
walls of oppression and resistance."
-- Robert F. Kennedy
Quote 69"The main thing is to care. Care very
hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
-- Billie Jean King
Quote 70"What lies behind us and what lies
before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
-- Unknown
Quote 72"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may
also be only the beginning."
-- Ivy Baker Priest
Quote 73"The older I get, the greater power I
seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball -- the further I
am rolled the more I gain."
-- Susan B. Anthony
Quote 75"[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why
someone else has been given more. It is humbling -- and indeed
healthy -- to ask why you have been given so much."
-- Condoleezza Rice
Quote 76"You have to be true to yourself, but
you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other
people."
-- Stephen Gaskin
Quote 80"Things turn out the best for people
who make the best of the way things turn out."
-- John Wooden
Quote 83"Eyes of youth have sharp sight but
commonly not so deep as those of elder age."
-- Elizabeth I
Quote 85"If we were meant to talk more than
listen, we would have two mouths and one ear."
-- Mark Twain
Quote 86"The reason a lot of people do not
recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like hard
work."
-- Thomas Edison
Quote 87"Read, read, read. Read everything
-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a
carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the
master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write."
-- William Faulkner
Quote 89"Talent is like electricity -- we do not
understand electricity. We use it."
-- Maya Angelou
Quote 90"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a
better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his
house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote 91"There's a great power in words, if
you don't hitch too many of them together."
-- Josh Billings
Quote 94"If you haven't got any charity in
your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."
-- Bob Hope
Quote 99"The unfortunate thing about this
world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Quote 100"When you see a rattlesnake poised
to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Quote 104"The best way I know of to win an
argument is to start by being in the right."
-- Lord Hailsham
Quote 106"Some books are to be tasted;
others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested."
-- Francis Bacon
Quote 108"Speak when you are angry, and you
will make the best speech that you will ever regret."
-- Ambrose Bierce
Quote 109"So you see!There's no end
To the things you might know,Depending how far beyond Zebra
you go."
-- Dr. Seuss, On Beyond Zebra
Quote 112"If you don't know where you want
to go, any road will take you there."
-- African American proverb
Quote 116"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a
good time."
-- Nancy Astor
Quote 117"The foolish man seeks happiness in
the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet."
-- James Oppenheim
Quote 126"I must say I find television very
educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
-- Groucho Marx
Quote 127"Life can be understood only backwards, but it must be lived
forwards."
-- Soren Kierkegaard
Quote 132"My grandfather once told me that
there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there
was much less competition."
-- Indira Gandhi
Quote 136"Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets
there."
-- Josh Billings
Quote 141"When I was a boy of 14, my father
was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
When I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had
learned in seven years."
-- Mark Twain
Quote 142"The Earth is given as a common for
men to labor and live in." (Note: For students to understand this
one, teachers might need to explain to students a little about
the history of town commons, common lands set aside for the common use and enjoyment of
all.)
-- Thomas Jefferson
Quote 146"The educated differ from the
uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
-- Aristotle
Quote 147"There has never yet been a man in
our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth
remembering."
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Quote 148"Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled
down into the quicksand of smugness and self-satisfaction."
-- Sydney Harris
Quote 149"If a man does not keep pace with
his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the
music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Quote 150"My advice to you is not to inquire
why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy."
-- Thornton Wilder
Quote 156"Fortunes made in no time are like
shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."
-- Douglas Jerrold
Quote 160"While grief is fresh, every attempt
to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then
amusement will dissipate the remains of it."
-- Samuel Johnson
Quote 162"The chains of habit are too weak to
be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
-- Samuel Johnson
Quote 165"The heart of a fool is in his mouth,
but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Quote 167"It is better to deserve honors and
not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
-- Mark Twain
Quote 169"Some of us are like wheelbarrows --
only useful when pushed and very easily upset."
-- Jack Herbert
Quote 170"Two things are infinite: the
universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
-- Albert Einstein
Quote 171"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in
society."
-- William Makepeace Thackeray
Quote 172"Most of the things worth doing in
the world had been declared impossible before they were
done."
-- Louis D. Brandeis
Quote 173"As long as I can conceive
something better than myself, I cannot be easy unless I am
striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Quote 174"While the mind is in doubt, it is
driven this way and that by a slight impulse."
-- Terence
Quote 177"To inherit property is not to be born
-- it is to be still-born, rather.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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