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1 -Ernest Hemingway , Success & Failure "But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated." "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." Listening
2 "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." -Nelson Henderson ,Generocity
3 "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" -Patrick Henry,Liberty
4 "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." -Frank Herbert, Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965 ,Fear
5 "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -Frank Herbert , change
6 "Hell is full of good meanings and wishings". -George Herbert, intention
7 "Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." -Herodotus ,Greatness & Great things
8 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." -Don Herold ,Learning
9 The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." -Napoleon Hill ,Success & failure
10 "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." -Burton Hills ,Happiness
11 "As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm." -Hippocrates, Help
12 "Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope." -Pete Holiday' Capitalism
13 "The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop." -Alfred Hitchcock ,Auth/Writ
14 "Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer." -Ernest Holmes ,inspirational
15 Oliver Wendell Holmes, - "To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." Doubt- "Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all." Mother's day- "Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children." Truth
16 "I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty." -Ellen Stugis Hooper ,Duty
17 "Justice is incidental to law and order." -J. Edgar Hoover ,Justice
18 "Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal." -Horace, patience
19 "When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president." -Dick Houser ,Watergate
20 Edward W. Howe - "If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old." Laughter- A thief believes everybody steals. Crime
21 "Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -Langston Hughes ,Ambition
22 "We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained." -Maurice Hulst, help
23 "No one is entitled to the truth." -E. Howard Hunt ,Truth
24 The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. -Thomas Henry Huxley ,Science
25 "It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead." -Robert G. Ingersoll ,Sin
26 "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together." -Eugene Ionesco ,Community
27 "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." -Washington Irving ,Attitude
28 "A camel is a horse designed by committee." -Sir Alec Issigonis, politics
29 "Virtue herself is her own fairest reward." -Silius Italicus, Virtue
30 Holbrook Jackson- "No man is ever old enough to know better." Age- "Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing." Habits
31 "Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up." -Jesse Jackson ,Pride
32 "The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail." -Bede Jarrett,Mistery
33 "Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes...just be an illusion." -Javan ,love
34 Thomas Jefferson - "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." - I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Luck- "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." Honest
35 M-O-T-H-E-R"M" is for the million things she gave me,"O" means only that she's growing old,"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,"H" is for her heart of purest gold;"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,"R" means right, and right she'll always be,Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"A word that means the world to me. -Howard Johnson ,Mother's Day
36 "No news at 4:30 a.m. is good." -Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary, 1970 ,Media
37 "Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it." -Lyndon B. Johnson ,Presidency
38 "ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space." -Philip Johnson ,Design
39 "Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." -Samuel Johnson ,Happiness
40 It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. -Bobby Jones ,Golf
41 "I have not yet begun to fight!" -John Paul Jones ,War
42 "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -Jeseph Joubert ,Aur/Deb
43 "Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life." -Norton Juster ,Time
44 "Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." -Henry Kaiser ,Adversity
45 "When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt." -Henry J. Kaiser ,Work
46 "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay, Fate/Desteny
47 Helen Keller - The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. Beauty- Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Unity
48 "The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'" -E. M. Kelly, Leadership
49 We have met the enemy and it is us." -Walt Kelly, Conflict
50 "Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired." -Richard Kemph ,Inspirtional
51 "If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches." -Carolyn Kenmore,Experience
52 John Fitzgerald Kennedy - "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." Forgiveness- "History will never accept difficulties as an excuse." Acceptance
53 "He who angers you conquers you." -Elizabeth Kenny ,Anger
54 "Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them." -Walter Kerr ,Ignor/Stup
55 "A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror." -Ken Keys ,Character
56 "Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor." -S?en Kierkegaard ,Teaching
57 Martin Luther King, Jr. - "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." Accep- "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live." Death
58 "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." -Rudyard Kipling ,Drug
59 "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac." -Henry Kissinger ,Power
60 "Genuinely skillful use of obscenities is uniformly absent on the Internet." -Karl Kleinpaste ,Inernet
61 Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. -Ray Knight ,Baseball
62 "The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse." -Ed Koch ,Education
63 "The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own." -Michael Konda ,Conformaty/Noncon
64 "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time." -Willem de Kooning ,Wealth
65 "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." -Jonathan Kozol ,Conflict
66 "Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters." -Jean Baptiste Lacordaire, Excellence
67 -Ann Landers - "No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence." Belief- "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them." opportunity
68 "Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven." -Walter Savage Landor ,Music69 "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. " -Tom Landry ,Football
70 "Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." -R. D. Lang ,Sanity/insanity
71 Lao-Tzu - "When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you." Confidence- "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." Love
72 "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss." -Jonathan Larson ,Regret/Remorse
73 D. H. Lawrence,- "Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that." confusion- "But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in." Peace
74 "Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others." -Leib Lazarow, Confidence
75 "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -Emma Lazarus ,America
76 "Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top." -Timothy Leary ,Society
77 "The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper." -Stanislaw Lec ,Media
78 "The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players." -Blaine Lee, The Power Principle ,Leader
79 "A brother is a friend given by Nature." -Legouve ,Family
80 Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov) - "Fascism is capitalism in decay." Dectatorship- "A lie told often enough becomes truth." Truth
81 "Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness." -Percy Wynham Lewis, Art
82 "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis ,Life
83 -Abraham Lincoln-Belief "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." -Character "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Democracy "...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." -Equality "Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." -Faith "Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it." -Growth "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." -Happiness "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Mother's Day "All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." "I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life." -Patriotism "We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." First inaugural address, March 4, 1861 -Resilience "It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! -Responsibility "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." -Revolution "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." -Talent "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance." -War Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861
84 Walter Lippmann,- Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. History-"When all men think alike, no one thinks very much." thought - It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Wisdom
85 "A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines." -Frank Lloyd Wright ,Mistake
86 "Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." -John Locke ,Virtue
87 "Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything." -George Lois ,Creativity
88 "Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy." -Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes ,Habits
89 "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." -E. V. Lucas, Dream
90 "Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage." -Charles Luckman ,Success/failure
91 The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. -Emil Ludwig ,Kiss
92 "Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it." -J. Russel Lynes ,Auth/Writ
93 Niccolo Machiavelli - I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heartI laugh but the laughter does not pass withinI burn but the burning makes no mark outside. Poem (Reding) - "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." Goals
94 "No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed." -Harold MacMillan, Success/failure 95 "Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself." -John MacNaughton ,Generosity
96 ""The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church." -Ferdinand Magellan ,Faith
97 "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." -Naguib Mahfouz ,Wisdom
98 "Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence." -Fran?ise Mallet-Joris, Virtue
99 "I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me." -Dudley Field Malone ,Argue/Deb
100 Andr?Malraux- "And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own." Fate/Dis- "To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." Man's hope (Leader)