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Taking Action
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
– Benjamin Disraeli
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
– Hugh Prather
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
– Albert Einstein
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
– Brian Weir
Be Happy
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
– James 1:24, RSV
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.
– Charles Swindoll
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
– Anonymous
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
– Andy Warhol
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
– Nelson Mandela
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
– Kim Rohn
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Mother with a cute baby – Terence
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
– Thomas Szasz
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
– Karl Kraus
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
– Abbé D’Allanival
Making bad choices today will create skeletons in your closet tomorrow.
– Christy Borgeld
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
– William Lowe Bryan
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Photo of father with daughter reading on book – Jean Piaget, Swiss cognitive psychologist
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.
Daniel Webster
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is, for the most part,
simply habit become fixed.
C. H. Parkhurst
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.
Samuel Smiles
Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.
Newell D. Hillis
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Nelson A. Rockefeller
It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.
Alfred Mercier
Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.
Johann C. F. von Schiller
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
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