# Ability is nothing without
opportunity.----Albert Einstein
# If you have great talents,
industry will improve them:
if you have but moderate abilities,
industry will supply their
deficiency. Joshua Reynolds
# There is great ability in
knowing how to conceal one's
ability. Francois, Duc de
La Rochefoucauld
#Those who do not feel pain
seldom think that it is felt.
Samuel Johnson
# The greatest use of life
is to spend it for something
that will outlast it.----William
James
# A man must consider what
a rich realm he abdicates
when he becomes a conformist.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
# The World is not dangerous
because of those who do harm
but because of those who look
at it without doing anything.----Albert
Einstein
# Humility does not mean you
think less of yourself. It
means you think of yourself
less.----Ken Blanchard
# They can not take away our
self respect if we do not
give it to them.----Mahatma
Gandhi
# The purpose of life is not
to be happy. It is to be useful,
to be honorable, to be compassionate,
to have it make some difference
that you have lived and lived
well. ----Ralph Waldo Emerson
# Someone once asked me "why
do you always insist on taking
the hard road?" and I
replied "why do you assume
I see two roads"?----Unknown
# 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
# When I hear somebody sigh,
'Life is hard,' I am always
tempted to ask, 'Compared
to what?'----Sydney Harris
# Don't let life discourage
you; everyone who got where
he is had to begin where he
was.----Richard L. Evans
# God didn't promise us it
would be easy or painless;
He just promised us it would
be worth it !
# We cannot learn without
pain. Aristotle
# Pain and death are part
of life. To reject them is
to reject life itself. Havelock
Ellis
# There is a great deal
of pain in life and perhaps
the only pain that can be
avoided is the pain that comes
from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing
Only when the sense of
the pain of others begins
does man begin. Yevgeny Yevtushenko
# My opinion is that a
poet should express the emotion
of all the ages and the thought
of his own. Thomas Hardy
# A poem begins in delight
and ends in wisdom. Robert
Frost
# A poet is, before anything
else, a person who is passionately
in love with language. W H
Auden
# You will find poetry
nowhere unless you bring some
of it with you. Joseph Joubert
# Reality only reveals
itself when it is illuminated
by a ray of poetry. Georges
Braque
# Poetry is something
to make us wiser and better,
by continually revealing those
types of beauty and truth,
which God has set in all men's
souls. James Russell Lowell
# Poetry is most just
to its divine origin, when
it administers the comforts
and breathes the thoughts
of religion. William Wordsworth
# Perhaps no person can
be a poet, or can even enjoy
poetry, without a certain
unsoundness of mind. Thomas
Babington Macaulay
# Writing a book of poetry
is like dropping a rose petal
down the Grand Canyon and
waiting for the echo. Don
Marquis
# Punctuality is the thief
of time. Oscar Wilde
# Few things tend more
to alienate friendship than
a want of punctuality in our
engagements. I have known
the breach of a promise to
dine or sup to break up more
than one intimacy. William
Hazlitt
# Punctuality is the stern
virtue of men of business,
and the graceful courtesy
of princes. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
# Punctuality is the virtue
of the bored. Evelyn Waugh
# Punctuality is one of
the cardinal business virtues:
always insist on it in your
subordinates. Don Marquis
# Punctuality is a quality
the need of which is bound
up with social co-operation.
Bertrand Russell
# Patriotism is the last
refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel
Johnson
# Men love their country,
not because it is great, but
because it is their own. Seneca
# He loves his country
best who strives to make it
best. Robert G. Ingersoll
# Patriotism has served,
at different times, as widely
different ends as a razor,
which ought to be used in
keeping your face clean and
yet may be used to cut your
own throat or that of an innocent
person. C. E. Montague
# Patriotism means unqualified
and unwavering love for the
nation, which implies not
uncritical eagerness to serve,
not support for unjust claims,
but frank assessment of its
vices and sins, and penitence
for them. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
# The difference between
patriotism and nationalism
is that the patriot is proud
of his country for what it
does, and the nationalist
is proud of his country no
matter what it does; the first
attitude creates a feeling
of responsibility, but the
second a feeling of blind
arrogance that leads to war.
Sydney J Harris
# Patriotism is when
love of your own people comes
first; nationalism, when hate
for people other than your
own comes first. Charles de
Gaulle
# Prayer does not change
God, but it changes him who
prays. Soren Kierkegaard
# Prayer opens the heart
to God, and it is the means
by which the soul, though
empty, is filled by God. John
Buchan
# The fruit of prayer
is silence, the fruit of silence
is faith, the fruit of faith
is hope, and the fruit of
hope is love, unity and peace.
Mother Teresa
# Prayer does not use
up artificial energy, doesn't
burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't
pollute. Neither does song,
neither does love, neither
does the dance. Margaret Mead
# Whatever a person may
pray for, that person prays
for a miracle. Every prayer
comes down to this: Almighty
God, grant that two times
two not equal four. Ivan Turgenev
# If judged only by the
results that challenge the
laws of probabilities, then
the power of prayer is nil.
Judith Hayes
# Love is not consolation,
it is light. Simone Weil
# No disguise can long
conceal love where it exists,
or long feign it where it
is lacking. Francois Duc de
La Rochefoucauld
# No disguise can long
conceal love where it exists,
or long feign it where it
is lacking. Francois Duc de
La Rochefoucauld
# Love and work are the
cornerstones of our humanness.
Sigmund Freud
# The love we give away
is the only love we keep.
Elbert G Hubbard
# If we really want to
love we must learn how to
forgive. Mother Teresa
# I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it
hurts, there can be no more
hurt, only more love. Mother
Teresa
# We can do no great things;
only small things with great
love. Mother Teresa
# To fall in love you
have to be in the state of
mind for it to take, like
a disease. Nancy Mitford
# Heaven Hath no rage
like a love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman
scorned. William Congreve
# Love means to commit
oneself without guarantee,
to give oneself completely
in the hope that our love
will produce love in the loved
person. Love is an act of
faith, and whoever is of little
faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
# Life is not so bad if
you have plenty of luck, a
good physique and not too
much imagination. Christopher
Isherwood
# Life is a maze in which
we take the wrong turning
before we have learned to
walk. Cyril Connolly
# Fear not that life shall
come to an end, but rather
fear that it shall never have
a beginning. Cardinal Newman
# One way to get the most
out of life is to look upon
it as an adventure. William
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