“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent. “
“Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.”
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“A right delayed is a right denied.”
“A riot is the language of the unheard.”
January 15, 2012
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July 3, 2011
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If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t,
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!
Source: Walter D. Wintle, Poet, 1905; Blog distribution provided by Kenneth Bargers and Bargers Solutions residential real estate services located in Nashville, Tennessee
April 1, 2011
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The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.
The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed — or did you fail because you stopped trying?
It is said that the lonely eagle flies to the mountain peaks while the lowly ant crawls the ground, but cannot the soul of the ant soar as high as the eagle?
Even a blind pig in a blizzard finds an acorn once in a while.
Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?
After all is said and done, a lot more is usually said than done.
Small minds are the first to condemn great ideas.
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February 18, 2011
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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places. – Ogden Nash
Don`t worry about avoiding temptation… as you grow older, it will avoid you. – Winston Churchill
In jealousy there is more self-love than love. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don`t have it. – George Bernard Shaw
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. – Mark Twain
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. – Margaret Thatcher
It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak. – Jean Paul Richter
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. – Plato
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – William Faulkner
November 5, 2010
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Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after. – Henry David Thoreau
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. – Author Unknown
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. – William Hazlitt
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. – William Shedd
Constant dripping hollows out a stone. – Lucretius
Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time. – Josh Billings
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. – Hypocrites
The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. – Eastern Proverb
October 1, 2010
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