Some Nifty Quotes
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life."
-The Bible: John 3:16
"You should live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell your pet parrot to the town gossip." (And we don't always get a chance to sell them, sometimes they just fly out the window...)
"Personally, I am always ready to learn, though I do not always like
to be taught."
-Winston Churchill
"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies."
-Shakespeare
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
-Abraham Lincoln
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
-Thomas Mann
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity."
"Ideals are like stars: you can never reach them, but they guide the way."
"Your present thoughts determine the future."
"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender."
-Vince Lombardi
"Takin' a break!"
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved."
-George Sand
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil."
-The Bible: Psalm 23
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life.
That word is love."
-Sophocles
"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die..."
The Princess Bride
"Mufasa? I didn't say Mufasa! I said,... que pasa?!"
The Lion King
"Yes, I know your peril. But, by my love and hope I entreat you: do no reject your love and hope!"
-Nietzche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
--Vince Lombardi
"Happiness may be had by helping others find it."
"Your mind is as the earth. Whatever you plant will grow."
"Your work is a portrait of yourself."
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-Voltaire
"Whatever be thy fate today, remember this too shall pass away."
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