Quotes of the Week

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Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.

Voltaire
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by details… Simplify, simplify.

Art Buchwald
The best things in life aren’t things.

Unknown
Mercy is not getting what we do deserve. Grace is getting what we don’t deserve.

Robert Frost
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Eleanor Roosevelt
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Alphonse Karr
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Henry David Thoreau
Struggle is the proof you have not yet been conquered. Things do not change, we change.

Mark Twain
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

George Bernard Shaw
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

Ivan Turgenev
…if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.

Robert Frost
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Mark Twain
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

Ed Cunningham
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

Abraham Lincoln
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Unknown
It may take only a minute to like someone, only an hour to have a crush on someone, and only a day to love someone, but it will take a lifetime to forget someone.

Unknown
Smooth seas don’t make skillful sailors.

Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

Unknown
To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.

Albert Einstein
Three rules of work:
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Unknown
Tell me and I forget; Show me and I remember; Involve me and I understand.

Unknown
It’s not how many hours you put in but how much you put into the hours.

Unknown
Sometimes the Lord calms the storm; sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms his child.

Charles Buxton
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Unknown
A coincidence is when God performs a miracle and decides to remain anonymous.

James Matthew Barrie
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Unknown
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle: when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

Unknown
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it.

Frederick Buechner, “Wishful Thinking”
The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work that you need most to do and that the world most needs to have done. The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are going.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Unknown
Following the path of least resistance is what makes rivers and men crooked.

Les Brown
Shoot for the moon.Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

Jim Elliot
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Unknown
Devoting a little of yourself to everything means committing a great deal of yourself to nothing.

Johnathan Kozol
Pick battles important enough to fight and small enough to win.

Robert Frost
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

St. Francis of Assisi
Preach the Gospel at all times… if necessary, use words.

Albert Einstein
The problems we face today cannot be solved on the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Rich Cook
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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