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Notable Quotables
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. William Jennings Bryan
How forcible are right words. Job 6:25
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. John F. Kennedy
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln
The best way to predict the future is to create it. Peter Drucker
If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
If we always do what we've always done, then we'll always get what we've got. Author unknown
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. Anne Frank
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. Harriet Beecher Stowe
The salvation of the state is watchfulness in the citizen. H.B. Alexander
Laws and constitutions spring from the moral dispositions of the members of the state . . . law and order deliver the soul . . . Plato
A community, like an individual, has a work to do . . . Aristotle
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation's wounds . . . Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered,
Love them anyway!
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Do good anyway!
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway!
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway!
Honesty and frankness makes you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway!
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway!
People really need help, but may attack you if you help them.
Help people anyway!
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you've got anyway!
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
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