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- No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour.
- Randolph Silliman Bourne
- "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
- Samuel Smiles
- I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that
- Stirling Moss
- Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude A. Helvetius
- Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
- Author Unknown
- Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.
- Sidney Madwed
- Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
- Smiley Blanton
- I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
- Tyron Edwards
- The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
- Author Unknown
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