Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Quotes

  • Not all who wander a lost. [J.R.R. Tolkien]
  • They are able because they think they are able. [Virgil]
  • Absence makes the heart go wander. [Unknown]
  • In war, truth is the first casualty. [Aeschylus]
  • There are two kinds of people: those who don't do what they want to do, so they write down in a diary about what they haven't done, and those who haven't time to write about it because they're out doing it. [Richard Flournoy and Lewis R. Foster]
  • Bad days happen [George]
  • Fear comes before all great things [George]
  • How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. [Marcus Aurelius]
  • All is not gold that shines like gold. [Alanus De Insulis]
  • A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. [Herm Albright]
  • A room without books is like a body without a soul. [G. K. Chesterton]
  • The race is not to the swift
    or the battle to the strong,
    nor does food come to the wise
    or wealth to the brilliant
    or favor to the learned;
    but time and chance happen to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11]
  • The only constant is change. [Unknown]
  • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear. [Mark Twain]
  • Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]
  • Make a decision, even if it's wrong. [Jarvis Klem]
  • Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. [Elbert Hubbard]
  • I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. [Thomas Jefferson]
  • For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do -- this I keep on doing. [Romans 7:19]
  • Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. [Theodore Roosevelt]
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. [Albert Einstein]
  • He who thinks he leads, and has no one following him is only taking a walk. [Unknown]



1 comment:

Mandi said...

I've always loved that quote from Roosevelt. Good call. :-)