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"The slightest movement affects the whole of nature; one stone can alter the whole sea. Likewise, in the realm of grace, the slightest action affects everything because of its consequences; therefore everything matters."

Blaise Pascal

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"Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself."

Fulton J. Sheen

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

John Stuart Mill

"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions."

G.K. Chesterton

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

Abraham Lincoln

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

Andrew Jackson

I wouldn't give much for a man who warms himself with the comfort of vain hopes. Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

Sophocles

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Thomas Jefferson

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Calvin Coolidge; 30th President

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Robert Houghwout Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Judge at the War-Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Under the burden of doubt, it is very hard to succeed.

YJT

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Anatole France

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Kierkegaard

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

W.E.B. DuBois

If we were humble, nothing would change us - neither praise nor discouragement.
If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.

Mother Theresa

It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

Shakti Gawain

Fools will believe anything, but the wise think about what they do.

Proverbs

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A situation that is perceived as real, is real in its consequences.

W.I. Thomas

Freedom, if we only knew it, is within the law of our nature, not outside it. Try to be so progressive and broad-minded as to draw a giraffe with a short neck or a triangle with four sides, and see where you end.

Fulton J. Sheen

"A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love."

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

MORE OF OUR FAVORITE QUOTATIONS

(ALPHABETICAL BY AUTHOR)

Do what you love and love what you're doing, and you'll never work another day in your life.

"We the willing, following the unknowing are doing the impossible. We have done so much for so long with so little that we are now able to do anything with nothing."

"If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy."

' I tried' is just an ego excuse for choosing not to do what you say you want to do. To make your life work, you will need to stop kidding yourself that you're trying. If you want a better life, make that your intention -- your commitment.

Never be afraid to try something new ... Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

The best parachute folders are those who jump themselves.

"Excellence can be attained if you Care more than others think is wise, Risk more than others think is safe, Dream more than others think is practical, and Expect more than others think is possible."

Where apathy is the master, all men are slaves.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Kindness is the insignia of a loving heart.

Anonymous

A lie on the throne is a lie, still, and truth in a dungeon is truth, still; and a lie on the throne is on the way to defeat, and truth in a dungeon is on the way to victory.

Who holds the souls of children, holds the nation.

All things which make noise at the side of the path do not come down the path.

African Proverb

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Chinese Proverb

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.

Yugoslav Proverb

Duty is ours; results are God’s.

John Quincy Adams; 6th President

I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

Dante Alighieri

For those who will fight bravely and not yield, there is triumphant victory over all the dark things of life.

James L. Allen

Many of us spend our entire lives waiting for our ship to come in. The problem is, we never sent one out!

Dr. Robert Anthony

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.

Richard Bach

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Richard Bach

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar N. Bradley

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

Your time is going to come if you work diligently and meticulously. It doesn't matter if no one else recognizes that. It matters only that you see it and you have the patience to wait for it.

Les Brown

It is motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyére

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

G.K. Chesterton

The remedy for dirt is soap and water. The remedy for dying is living.

Chinese Proverb

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Confucius

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

God gives us everything "at the price of an effort".

Leonardo da Vinci

The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.

Diogenes

The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

Frederick Douglass

A voter without a ballot is like a soldier without a bullet.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Eliot

To leave this world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Epictetus

Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.

Epicurus

Never accept a "no" from an individual who does not possess the authority to have said "yes" in the first place.

Bryant Fontenot

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few people engage in it.

Henry Ford

You think, and your thoughts materialize as experience, and thus it is, all unknown to yourself as a rule, that you are actually weaving the pattern of your own destiny, here and now, by the way in which you allow yourself to think, day by day and all day long.

The Science of Living is the Science of Thought.

Emmet Fox

Build up the consciousness for what you truly want and nothing can prevent your having it.

Emmet Fox

Well done is better than well said.

Ben Franklin

Freedom lies in being bold.

Robert Frost

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!

Robert Fulghum

If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.

Les Giblin

No life is so hard that one can't make it easier by the way one accepts it.

Glascow

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

Wayne Gretzky

... I've known people whose lives have "faced a blank wall" and yet they made it sound beautiful. Their courage was evidenced in little commitments they made every day, little acts of gratitude and wonder - in spite of their circumstances.

Tim Hansel

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

William Hazlitt

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Napoleon Hill

I will not give to a woman an instrument to procure abortion.

Hippocratic Oath

No generalization is wholly true, not even this one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

Horace

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

Søren Kierkegaard

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily.

Sally Koch

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery by adaptation.

Lao-Tzu

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Bruce Lee

Ein Vergnügen erwarten ist auch ein Vergnügen.

(Awaiting pleasure is pleasure.)

G.E. Lessing

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

John Lubbock

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

Each day is a special gift from God, and while life may not always be fair, you must never allow the pains, hurdles, and handicaps of the moment to poison your attitude and plans for yourself and your future.

Og Mandino

Enthusiasm tramps over prejudice and opposition, spurns inaction, storms the citadel of its objects and like an avalanche, overwhelms and engulfs all obstacles. It is nothing more or less than faith in action.

Og Mandino

And be grateful for your lessons learned in poverty. For he is not poor who has little; only he that desires much ... and true security lies not in the things one has but in the things one can do without.

Og Mandino

Without the stability of character, you will not survive. Without the nobility of character, you should not survive.

Richard Marcinko

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.

John Milton

Give of your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

Mother Teresa

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Theresa

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.

Herbert Otto

Empty pockets never held anyone back; it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

Marcel Proust

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Theodore Roosevelt

Mensch, was du tust, bedenk' das End; das wird die höchste Weisheit genennt.

(People, when you do something, think of the end result; that is the wisest approach.)

Hans Sachs

Das Spiel des Lebens sieht sich heiter an, wenn man den sichern Schatz im Herzen trägt.

(The game of life looks happy to one who carries the right treasures in his heart.)

Friedrich Schiller

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Schopenhauer

Ideale sind wie Sterne. Man kann sie nicht erreichen, aber man kann sich nach ihnen orientieren.

(Ideals are like stars. You can't reach them, but you can navigate by them.)

Carl Schurz

I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other.

Seneca

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

Money is not necessary to buy anything of the soul.

Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

You are truly successful when you can extend strong hand to someone who is reaching, searching, or just trying to hang on.

Denis Waitley

"People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things."

Erik Weihenmayer, Blind Rock Climber

To be the winner you are allowed to become, you must PLAN to Win; you must PREPARE to Win; and then you have every right to EXPECT to Win.

Zig Ziglar

YOU CAN ONLY HAVE TWO THINGS IN LIFE, REASONS OR RESULTS.

REASONS DON'T COUNT.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Life unfolds on a great sheet called Time, and once finished it is gone forever.

Chinese Adage

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Samurai Maxim

In order to make the most of the future, we must first comprehend the past.
A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

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