2:09 PM 2/20/2004
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In work, the greatest satisfaction lies - the satisfaction of
stretching yourself, using your abilities and making them expand, and
knowing that you have accomplished something that could have been
done only by your unique apparatus. This is really the center of
life, and those who never orient themselves in this direction are
missing more than they ever know.

-- Kenneth Alsop (1920-1973)

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Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful
combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an
exuberant embrace of the present moment.

-- Tom Morris

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

-- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down,
the other is pulling up.

-- Booker T. Washington

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far
higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

-- F. Hawes
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Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great
temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the
real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being
decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you
shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made
except by a steady, long continued process.

-- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop


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If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read
some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.

-- Charles Darwin


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Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or
architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

-- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English Writer

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"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.

-- George P. Burnham
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Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.

-- Anonymous
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There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which
lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles
up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

-- Washington Irving (1783-1859) American Writer
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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but
progress.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have
those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

-- Aristotle

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.

-- William Morrow

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If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of
the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands,
but a continent that joins them.

-- Francis Bacon
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It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in."

-- Washington Gladden

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Children need models rather than critics.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress.

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find
yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which
no other man can ever know.

-- Joseph Conrad
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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ablility to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

-- James A. Garfield
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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form
of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to
regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed
upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should
not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like
Aaron's rod, with flowers.

-- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer

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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.

-- Chinese proverb

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

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Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if
it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery...
It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.

-- Passage from Life of Christ

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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933


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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong;
honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he
ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment
and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and
cheerfulness.

-- Daniel Webster
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Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the
Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears
dishonor more than death.

-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or
measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

-- Donald A. Adams
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I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what
has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the
best you can you can't do any better.

-- Harry S. Truman

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Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being
cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared.
It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness
that comes with having proved you can meet life.

-- Ann Landers, born 1918
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Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad
experience.

-- Robert Packwood

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Every man stamps his value on himself... man is made great or small
by his own will.

-- J.C.F. von Schiller
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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional
glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful
scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.

-- Harold B. Melchart
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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice
what we are for what we could become.

-- Charles Du Bos

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The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.

-- J. Harold Wilkins


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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness
is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

-- David Seabury

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Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our
worthiest desires.

-- Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer