WORDS TO LIVE BY
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Wealth lost is something lost,
honor lost is something lost:
Courage lost all is lost."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American inventor.
"If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system."
Unknown Source
"A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on."
Unknown Source
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) German scientist, satirist and anglophile.
"When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before."
Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999) American editor and writer.
"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."
John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.
"Character is to man what carbon is to steel."
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) American speaker and motivational writer.
"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.
"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."
Plato (BC 427-BC 347) Greek philosopher.
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear."
Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
