Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.
Oliver J. Hart
Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.
Oliver J. Hart
Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
Thomas Carlyle
Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this
rich jewel is lost in concealment.
-Bishop Hall
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them
-Henry Ford
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
-Leonardo DaVinci
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
-John Ruskin
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-Mark Twain
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
-Proverb
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
-Og Mandino
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-Ovid
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
-Donald Rumsfeld
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
-John Selden
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
-James Thurber
Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
-Mark Twain
The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.
-Sparky Anderson
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
-Harold Coffin
One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.
-Source Unknown
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
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
-Jim Rohn
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
-Samuel Butler
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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