Stasis

“If you always do what you have always done, you will always be what you have always been.”
--Egyptian Proverb

Defy the Precedent

“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent.”
--Clara Barton

Constant War

“Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”
--Alexander the Great

Never Too Late

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
--Unknown (misattributed to George Elliot)

Selfless Service

“Selfless service has always been one of the most powerful methods of influence.”
--Stephen Covey

Bent and Broken

“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
--Charles Dickens

Never Been Poor

“I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation.”
--Mike Todd

What is a Weed?

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Better Things Ahead

“Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
--C.S. Lewis

Smiles are Ageless

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
--Mark Twain

Retreating Tide

“Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.”
--Warren Buffett

Know Best

“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”
--Marquis de Vauvenargues

Maybes

“For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are "It might have been!”
--William Wordsworth

Living Fully

“I have never been afraid of dying, I have only been afraid of not living fully.”
--Jeffrey Fry

 

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A Name Worth Remembering

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.”
--Theodore Roosevelt

Opportunity Abounds

“There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been.”
--Charles Fillmore