| Notable Quotables
THEME QUOTATIONS
"Promise a lot and give even more." — Anthony D'Angelo
"Underpromise; overdeliver." — Tom Peters
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according
to our fears." — Author Unknown
"He is poor indeed who can promise nothing." — Thomas
Fuller
"Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination
the various courses of action possible to you, and the consequences
that can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course that
gives the most promise and go ahead." — Dr. Maxwell Maltz
"And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I
may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that
we as a people will get to the promised land." — Dr. Martin
Luther King
"Never promise more than you can perform." — Publilius
Syrus
"The intelligent person is one who has successfully fulfilled
many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more." — Ed
Parker
"To fulfill a dream. . . .to be given the chance to create,
is the meat and potatoes of life." — Bette Davis
"The reward of one duty is to power to fulfill another." — George
Eliot
"If the promise is a very long way away, it becomes meaningless.
It should be immediate." — Osho Rajneesh
"The future is not a result of choices among alternative
paths offered by the present, but a place that is created — created
first in mind and will, created next in activity. The future is
not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths
are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them,
changes both the maker and the destination." — John Schaar
OTHER INSPIRATIONAL QUOTATIONS
"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." — Clare
Booth Luce
"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time
is always ripe to do right." — Nelson Mendela
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished
by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope
at all." — Dale Carnegie
"I have reached a point in my life where I understand the
pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up
with open arms to meet them all." — Myrlie Evers
"Everybody can be great . . . because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have
to
make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart
full of grace. A soul generated by love." — Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community." — Anthony
J. D'Angelo
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." — Mother
Teresa
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." — George
Eliot
"My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of
the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we react
with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from
adversity." — Chief Wilma Mankiller
"If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very
often get it." — Anonymous
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what
we give." — Winston Churchill
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also
of the overcoming of it." — Helen Keller
"The only people with whom you should try to get even, are
those who have helped you." — May Maloo
"Service is the rent you pay for being." — Marian
Wright Edelman
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing
to do yourself." — Eleanor Roosevelt
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| National Crime Victims' Rights
Week: Fulfill the Promise |
April 6-12, 2003 |
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