'Quotes of the Week' - 2010-11
6/28/11:
"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls."
~Robert J. McCracken
6/21/11:
"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."
~Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer & Nobel Peace Prize winner
6/14/11:
"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."
~Marie Curie, French physicist and chemist, two time Nobel Prize winner
6/7/11:
"He who asks is a fool for 5 minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
~Chinese proverb
5/24/11:
"The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible."
~Norman Cousins, American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate
5/17/11:
"The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible."
~Norman Cousins, American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate
5/10/11:
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
4/26/11:
"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be."
~Princess Diana
4/19/11:
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?."
~Robert Redford
4/5/11:
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
~B.C. Forbes, Scottish financial journalist and founder of Forbes magazine
3/15/11:
"American will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
~Abraham Lincoln
3/8/11:
"He who hesitates is lost."
~Proverb
2/22/11:
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~George Carlin, Stand-up Comedian
2/15/10:
"Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts."
~Phil Jackson, Los Angeles Lakers Coach
1/11/10:
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
~Jesse Jackson
1/11/10:
"I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood."
~Bill Watterson, American Author of 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip
1/04/10:
"Perhaps dreaming is not so bad if one dreams good dreams and makes them come true."
~Paul Harris
12/07/10:
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
~Maya Angelou
11/30/10:
"I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act."
~Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
11/16/10:
"A good example is the best sermon."
~Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, scientist and writer
11/09/10:
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
~Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist
10/26/10:
"My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something."
~Francis Ford Coppola, American film director, writer, and entrepreneur
10/19/10:
"Act swiftly and vigorously without "buts" and "ifs"..."
~Napoleon Bonaparte, French general and emperor
10/12/10:
"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."
~Ancient Proverb
9/28/10:
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
~Carl Bonitz, Corporate Challenge Winner, and Vince Lombardi, Arguably the "greatest football coach of all time"
9/21/10:
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found those dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
~Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch Painter
9/14/10:
"Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem."
~Marian Wright Edelman, American activist & founder of the Children's Defense Fund
9/07/10:
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
~Everett Edward Hale, American author
8/31/10:
"It's how you cope with the imperfect matches that make you great."
~Kim Clijsters, Belgian professional tennis player & 2-time U.S. Open champion
8/24/10:
"I am not afraid of the word tension."
~Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader
8/17/10:
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
~Dale Carnegie
8/10/10:
"It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all."
~Brownie Wise
8/03/10:
"Roll with the punches. Tomorrow is another day."
~Dicky Fox
7/27/10:
"For myself I am an optimist- it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
~Sir Winston Churchill
7/20/10:
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
~Mark Twain
7/13/10:
"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."
~Walt Disney
7/6/10:
"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."
~Henry Ford