INSTRUCTION DOES MUCH, BUT ENCOURAGEMENT DOES EVERYTHING. - Jonathan Wolfgang Von Goethe

• The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.- Margot Fonteyn
• The Butterfly Story
• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.- Joseph Addison
• "Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You 're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky! - Ronald E. McNair
• We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.- Pausch- Carnegie Mellon University Professor who died of cancer at 47 year old
• We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Socrates
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius
• True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island….to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. - Baltasar Gracian
• Life happens when you're making other plans.- John Lennon
• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.- Bill Cosby
• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot be done." - Author Unknown
• You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims. - Harriet Woods
• The work of a teacher - exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same - is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. - William Ayres- "To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher"
• Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. - Ovid
• Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.- William Bennett
• The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.- Marya Mannes
• Religion has historically been the language for people to talk about the things that mattered most to them, aided and abetted by the arts. Science has become the language that has helped people to know what they wanted to know, and get what they wanted to get. Psychotherapy has to occupy the difficult middle ground between them, but without taking sides. Since it is narrow-mindedness that we most often suffer from, we need our therapists to resist the allure of the fashionable certainties.- from "Going Sane: Maps of Happiness." by Adam Phillips
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.- Anonymous
• The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.- Randy Pausch- Carnegie Mellon Professor
• It’s not about how to achieve your dreams. It’s about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.-- Randy Pausch- Carnegie Mellon Professor.
• So. How do you get people to help you? You can’t get there alone. People have to help you and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth. Being earnest. I’ll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.-- Randy Pausch- Carnegie Mellon Professor.
• Loyalty is a two way street…. Never give up…. Get a feedback loop and listen to it…. Show gratitude…. Don’t complain. Just work harder…- Randy Pausch- Carnegie Mellon Professor.
• He said, when you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they gave up. And that’s a lesson that stuck with me my whole life. Is that when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.-- Randy Pausch- Carnegie Mellon Professor.
• The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• He can do more for others who has done most with himself.- S.D. Gordon
• We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it. - Mary Blake
• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.- Nelson Mandela
  
• A smile. A smile costs nothing but gives much. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. It cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile as much as he who has no more to give. - unknown
• What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.- Arthur Schopenhauer
• To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. - Viktor E. Frankl
• The last of human freedoms is the ability to choose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances- Viktor E. Frankl
• A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes- within the limits of endowment and environment- he has made out of himself. - Viktor E. Frankl
• Live as if you were living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.- Viktor E. Frankl
• Thus, man is by no means merely a product of heredity and environment. There is a third element: decision. Man ultimately decides for himself! And, in the end, education must be education toward the ability to decide. - Viktor E. Frankl
  
• If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.- Glenn Clark
• If we take people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat them as if they were what they ought to be, we help them to become what they are capable of becoming. - Jonathan Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself. - F. Hawes
• The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.- Confucius
• Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.- John Richelsen
• Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein.
• The man who regards his life as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. - Albert Einstein
• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art. - Seneca
• Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott
• It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.- Euripedes
• Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. - William J. H. Boetcker
• Not failure, but low aim is sin. -Dr. Benjamin E. Mays
  
• Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America.- Theodore Roosevelt, 1917
  
• If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself. - A. Neilen
• The mistery of human existence does not lie in living, but in knowing what are you living for. - Nicolae Iorga
  
• Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. ~Stephen Covey
• Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.- Anonymous
• Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. - Ovid
• The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.- Vince Lombardi
• Man does not live by a turkey in every oven or a color TV set in every home. Man lives by faith and hope and love, by the star on the horizon, by the trumpet that will not call retreat.- E. Merrill Root
• Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. - David Seabury
• One must have chaos in ones self in order to give birth to a dancing star. - Fredrick Nietzsche
• The unexamined life is not worth living.- Socrates
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.- Thomas Jefferson
• I hear and I forget/ I see and I remember/ I do and I understand. - Confucius
• The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall. - Confucius
• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.- Malcolm Forbes
• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius
• Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.- Herbert Kaufman
• All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values. - Nietzsche
• The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.- Chinese proverb
• Laughter is the language of the Gods.- Buddhist saying
• The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.- Marya Mannes
• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder. - W.J. Slim
• A government that impedes the development of the sciences subverts the very grounds for state legitimacy, which is to provide us physical safety so that we can realize our full potential.- Spinoza
• Whoever has a reason for living endures almost any mode of life. - Nietzsche
• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.- Winston Churchill
• A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.- Laurence Peter
• We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it. - Mary Blake
• Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott
• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.- Samuel Goldwyn
• The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear. - William Jennings Bryan
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.- William James
• Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. - Ann Landers
• I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.- Glenn Seaborg
• One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.- Sigmund Freud
• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.- Robert Louis Stevenson
• Happiness is something entirely subjective. - Sigmund Freud, "Civilization and Its Discontents"
  
• Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle
• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.- John D. Rockefeller III
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.- Sir Winston Churchill
• Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
• Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. - Charles Kingsley (1819-75), British writer and clergyman.
• Judgment comes from experience, and great judgment comes from bad experience.- Robert Packwood
• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world – making the most of one's best. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
• Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman MacFinan
• Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. - James Buckham
• Taught times do not last, people do. - unknown
  
• Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. - Robert Browning
• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources. - Vauvenargues
• To know a truth well, one must have faught it out. - Novalis
• Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think - Nixon Waterman
• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.- Abraham Lincoln
• Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson
• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
• The nearest way to glory -- a shortcut, as it were -- is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. - Socrates, quoted in Cicero, 44 BC.
  
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