"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."
-- Max Beerbohm

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve."
-- Napoleon Hill

"When principles that run against your deapest convictions begin to win the day,
then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin."
-- Abraham Kuyper

"Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
-- St. Augustine

"I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not any more."
-- Dicey in Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight

"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."
-- John MacNaughton

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless."
-- Mother Teresa

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
-- Sir Winston Churchill

"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
-- Leonardo da Vinci

"No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval."
-- Minot Simons

"Honour, my good Armand, is often cruel and seldom human. He is a godlike taskmaster, and we who call ourselves men are all of us his slaves."
-- Sir Percy Blackney character in El Dorado by Baroness Orczy

"And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made."
-- A. E. Housman

"Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it."
-- Victor Hugo

"No, I'm not optimistic, but I am hopeful"
-- Tuto somebuddy or another Fr. Peter quoted in a homily

"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
-- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes, 1165.

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
-- Stephanie Lucas

"Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind."
-- Louisa May Alcott in Little Women page 38.

"If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying."
-- C. S. Lewis

"Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."
-- Freeman Teague, Jr.

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in."
-- Andrew Jackson

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-- Confucius

"I know God wouldn't let anything happen I couldn't handle. I wish God didn't trust me so much."
-- Mother Theresa

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."
-- Anne of Green Gables

"When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, it is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough."
-- Gawyn in Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan

"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. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!"
-- Rudyard Kipling

"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 the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and 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 cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
-- Teddy Roosevelt

" Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-- Mark Twain

"You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying."
-- Former Representative Millicent Fenwick, N.J.

"Ability is what you're capable of doing...
Motivation determines what you do...
Attitude determines how well you do it."
-- Unknown

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-- Will Rogers

"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
-- Mark Twain

"If you can't go over, you must go under."
-- Yiddish Proverb

"everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved."
-- Kierkegaard.

"Middle age is halfway between your age and one hundred."
-- Unknown

"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?"
--Slashdot quote, scource unknown.

"If you want peace, work for justice.
 If you want justice, defend life.
 If you want life, embrace truth."
--Pope John Paul II

"Only two things are infinite -- the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
--Albert Einstein,

"Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have."
-- Andrew Vachss

"What we acquire without sweat, we give without regret."
-- American "Proverb"

"We tend to get what we expect."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams And endeavors to live the life he has imagined, He will meet with success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, Your work need not be lost. Now put the foundations beneath them."
--Henry David Thoreau (sp?)

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
--Joseph Joubert 1754-1824
Don't totally agree, there are times when no debate is necessary.

"Learn to alugh at yourself, because you know everyone else is"
--Steve Valentive

"Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet"
--Steve Valentine

"Never, never, never quit"
--Winston Churchill
Thankyou so very much Ederlyn.

"For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong."
-- H. L. Mencken

"The world is no nursery."
-- Sigmund Freud
Wow, something from Freud i agree with.

"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
-- Aristotle

"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
Not sure where i first saw this, Ederlyn's one page made me remember it, and several others.

"Pain is your friend, as long as you are the one inflicting it."
--Sean "Sully" Sulivan, a pvi person.

"Somewhere out there someone is working, and when you meet them, they will beat you."
--Coach Welcher Note this does not say they might beat you, or they will be hard to beat. They WILL beat you.

"...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated:
Sleep."
--Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
--Herman Hesse, off of Ederlyn's aim info.


"Too often, we lose sight of life's simple pleasures....Remember, when someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles in your face to frown. BUT, it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and SMACK the idiot upside the head."
--a chain email I edited the chain part out of.

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