"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, ...............................
but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, ...............................
but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be................................
Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (chapter 18)
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“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I reflect, and out of all of this I try to form an idea.....................................................
into which I put as much common sense as I can.”
Marquis de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette
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"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure..........................
and the intelligent are full of doubt."
Bertrand Russell
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"Education is what survives .............................................
when what has been learned has been forgotten."
B. F. Skinner
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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, ...........................
but its other face is human defeat.
Walter Lippmann, 1914
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The strongest of all warriors are these two ................................
— Time and Patience.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, ......................................
but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe
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When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. .....
When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. ...............................
That's relativity."
Albert Einstein, On relativity
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"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. ..........................
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."
Chuang Tzu
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"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, ............................
unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
Jerome K. Jerome
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Persistence is a strong will. .....................................
Obstinance is a strong won’t.
Anon.
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"When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, ..............................
so that it can tell us the price of everything."
Nikita Khrushchev
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Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence ............................
is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cardes
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"Not everything that can be counted counts, ..................................
and not everything that counts can be counted."
Albert Einstein
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Motivation is what gets you started. ...................................
Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
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Finagle's Eighth Rule:..............................................
Teamwork is essential. It allows you to blame someone else.
Proverb
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Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. ..........................................
The first is being a bore.
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
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"One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. .............................
The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide."
Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student
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Hitting the road to the south now.....................back on Optiboard in 2 1/2 day's
"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie ..........................................
if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."
Whitney Moore, Jr.
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"Only two people have ever died for you, Jesus Christ and the American G.I."
Tony Blair
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, ..................................
and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
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"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation .........................................
if it didn't change once in a while."
Kin Hubbard
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"It takes a great man ..........................................
to be a good listener."
Calvin Coolidge
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence ..................................
and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. Mencken
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