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Tue 21 Jan, 2003 06:15 am
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
~ Robert Bresson
When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself.
(Fortune Cookie)
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
~ Henry Ford
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
~ Michael Jordan
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
~ Henry Ford
Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
We must become the change we want to see.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
~ Marcus Aurelius Antonius
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
~ Leo Buscaglia
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings.
~ Hodding Carter Jr.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the man who has broken the chains, which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
We move towards what we think about, whether it's good for us or not.
Unknown author
And when it rains on your parade. look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Jerry Chin
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
Samuel Johnson
Leaving the Signing of the US Constitution
On that day in mid-September of 1787 that the American Constitutional Convention completed its work, as the framers emerged from the State House in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman standing outside, "So, what type of government have you delegates given us?" He called back, "A republic, madam, if you can keep it."