Notes to ponder
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
--Harriett Woods,
politician and women's rights activist
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
--Lane Olinghouse,
author
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
--James M. Barrie,
Scottish novelist and dramatist
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
--Thomas Edison,
inventor and businessman
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
--Sandra Day O'Connor,
first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Dorothy Parker,
writer and poet
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
--Frank Crane,
minister, speaker and columnist
Look at all the positives and negatives of a situation, and then go back to one thing -- what your heart tells you.
--Chris Weinke,
Heisman Trophy winner, professional football player
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
--Kurt Vonnegut,
novelist and satirist
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
--Audrey Hepburn,
Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
--George Lucas,
film writer-director-producer
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
--C. S. Lewis,
Irish author
I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
--Herbert B. Swope,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
--Adrienne Rich,
poet and teacher
There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
--Frederick Collin,
lawyer and judge
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
--Dorothy Thompson,
journalist
Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
--Eleanor Roosevelt,
former first lady and American political leader
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
--Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain,
writer
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly.
--Charles Lindbergh,
pioneering aviator
A man must learn to forgive himself.
--Arthur Davison Ficke,
poet
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
--Oscar Wilde,
Irish playwright, novelist and poet
--Harriett Woods,
politician and women's rights activist
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
--Lane Olinghouse,
author
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
--James M. Barrie,
Scottish novelist and dramatist
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
--Thomas Edison,
inventor and businessman
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.
--Sandra Day O'Connor,
first woman U.S. Supreme Court Justice
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
--Dorothy Parker,
writer and poet
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
--Frank Crane,
minister, speaker and columnist
Look at all the positives and negatives of a situation, and then go back to one thing -- what your heart tells you.
--Chris Weinke,
Heisman Trophy winner, professional football player
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
--Kurt Vonnegut,
novelist and satirist
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
--Audrey Hepburn,
Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
--George Lucas,
film writer-director-producer
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
--C. S. Lewis,
Irish author
I cannot give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
--Herbert B. Swope,
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
--Adrienne Rich,
poet and teacher
There are two types of people -- those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
--Frederick Collin,
lawyer and judge
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
--Dorothy Thompson,
journalist
Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
--Eleanor Roosevelt,
former first lady and American political leader
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
--Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain,
writer
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly.
--Charles Lindbergh,
pioneering aviator
A man must learn to forgive himself.
--Arthur Davison Ficke,
poet
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
--Oscar Wilde,
Irish playwright, novelist and poet