"We must become the change we want to see." Gandhi

Indian political and spiritual leader Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) thoughts:


“We must become the change we want to see.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi


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Nike, Just do it!!


NIKE, JUST DO IT!

Too often we are scared.
Scared of what we might not be able to do.
Scared of what people might think if we tried.
We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes.
We say no when we want to say yes.
We sit quietly when we want to scream.
And we shout with the others,
when we should keep our mouths shut.
Why?
After all,
we do only go around once.
There's really no time to be afraid.
So stop.
Try something you've never tried.
Risk it.
Enter a triathlon.
Write a letter to the editor.
Demand a raise.
Call winners at the toughest court.
Throw away your television.
Bicycle across the United States.
Try bobsledding.
Try anything.
Speak out against the designated hitter.
Travel to a country where you don't speak the language.
Patent something.
Call her.
You have nothing to lose
and everything
everything
everything to gain.
JUST DO IT!

Quotations for St Valentine's Day

Quotations for St Valentine's Day

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
~Natalie Clifford Barney


Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
~Robert Browning


Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~Zora Neale Hurston


Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~Eva Gabor


We loved with a love that was more than love.
~Edgar Allan Poe


Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
~Ben Hecht


Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity
~Henry Van Dyke


Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore


A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"


I've fallen in love many times... always with you.
~Author Unknown

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.
~Author Unknown


Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.
~Author Unknown


Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy


Candle light, moon light, star light,
The brightest glow is from love light.
~Grey Livingston


A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
~Frank A. Clark


Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
~Rose Franken


Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
~Swedish Proverb


I love you like crazy, baby
'Cuz I'd go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre


I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash


Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.
~Author Unknown


Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.
~Author Unknown


A hundred hearts would be too few
To carry all my love for you.
~Author Unknown


You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"


We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.
~Author Unknown

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
~Thomas Hood


When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca


Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee.
~English saying used on poesy rings


Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~Albert Einstein


I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
~Aerosmith


Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
~Voltaire


The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
~Author Unknown


The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.
~Stephen King


My whole heart for my whole life.
~French saying used on poesy rings


Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon


Love is metaphysical gravity.
~R. Buckminster Fuller

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
~William Shakespeare


My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me;
We'll lock them up together,
And throw away the key.
~Frederick Saunders


Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
~Pablo Picasso


What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
~Pearl Bailey


Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
~Robert Herrick, "To Anthea (III)"

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
~Ovid


Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley


I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,
After the day's great sun.
~Charles Hanson Towne


Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
~Author Unknown


Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
~Author Unknown


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~Margaret Atwood

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
~Victor Hugo


It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
~John Bulwer


Love is not singular except in syllable.
~Marvin Taylor


They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there's moonlight all about and there's no moon above.
~E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, dialogue just before the song "Old Devil Moon" in the musical Finian's Rainbow (Thanks, Katherine!)


Love me and the world is mine.
~David Reed


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~Robert Frost


Love is the poetry of the senses.
~Honoré de Balzac


Come live in my heart and pay no rent.
~Samuel Lover

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Attributed to Claudia Ghandi


True love stories never have endings.
~Richard Bach


The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.
~Margaret Atwood


Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
~Zelda Fitzgerald


Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart
~Kay Knudsen


Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
~Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975


What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
~Author Unknown


I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning



Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.
~Author Unknown


We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism


I love thee - I love thee,
'Tis all that I can say
It is my vision in the night,
My dreaming in the day.
~Thomas Hood


Love, and a cough, cannot be hid.
~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651


Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
~Christopher Paul Rubero


A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
~Latin Proverb


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670


At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato


For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard


Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Author Unknown


Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown




Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns.
~Michael Drayton


Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
~William Shakespeare


kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings


If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
~Author Unknown


Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde


In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown


Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
~Robert Browning

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked
~Segal


Love is what you've been through with somebody.
~James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960


Love is being stupid together.
~Paul Valery


For twas not into my ear you whispered
But into my heart
Twas not my lips you kissed
But my soul
~Judy Garland



Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye


The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Moore

My list

My list

I have a list of folks I know,
All written in a book;
And every year at Christmas time,
I go and take a look.

And that is when I realize,
That these names are a part,
Not of the book they're written in,
But of my very heart.

For each name stands for someone
Who has touched my life sometime;
And in that meeting they've become,
The "Rhythm in each Rhyme."

And while it sounds fantastic
For me to make this claim,
I really feel I am composed,
Of each remembered name.

And while you may not be aware
Of any special link,
Just meeting you has shaped my life
A lot more than you think.

For once that you have known someone,
The years cannot erase,
The memory of a pleasant word,
Or of a friendly face.

So never think my Christmas cards
Are just a mere routine,
Of the names upon a list,
Forgotten in between.

For when I send a Christmas card
That is addressed to you,
It is because you're on that list,
Of folks I'm indebted to.

And whether I have known you
For many years or few,
In some way you have had a part
In shaping things I do.

So every year when Christmas comes,
I realize anew ...
One of the biggest gifts that God can give Is knowing folks like you!
~ Helen Steiner Rice ~ Christmas 1949

Happiness

Happiness

Every day, as we seek happiness, the world seduces us with a ceaseless barrage of things and people we can possess. It gives us plenty of compelling reasons why we should have them. It could be a new car, a new loud suit or even a new wife.
But if our happiness depends on our possessions, then we are destined to spend our lives chasing after an illusion.
A thirsty poet was walking in the woods one night when he came upon a well with a bucket and an attached rope. He looked into the well and the vision that met his eyes made his heart stop momentarily. Although a man accustomed to waxing lyrical about almost anything, he found no words to describe the beauty of the tranquil, perfectly round object, shimmering with ivory light at the bottom of the well.
Determined that such a dazzling thing should be his, he lowered the bucket into the well and tried to "catch" the object. The instant the bucket touched the water, the thing of beauty began to waver and distort. The poet brought up several buckets full of water, but the object remained at the bottom of the well. After the ripples had settled, it seemed to mock him with its serenity and inertia.
Undeterred, the poet labored the entire night until finally, he had emptied the well. He looked down and was shocked to see that the vision of beauty was no longer there! Worn out and distraught, he fell on his back, bemoaning his "loss". At that moment, he saw the fading moon in the sky, making way for the morning sun, and finally understood his folly.
Like the poet in the story, many of us spend our lives attempting to possess the objects of our desires. We try vainly to "scoop up the moon", not realizing that it's merely a reflection we see. We assume falsely that what we want is right there in the water. We think that we can bring it up to us, and when we do, we will be happy.
Eventually, we look around and realize that we had wasted our time and energy on artificial and inconstant things. We had squandered the water that would have relieved our thirst. We look up and realize that the actual moon was in the sky all along. Its beauty was something that anyone could savor without effort or price, but that no one could own or control, no matter how hard one tried.
Trying to find happiness in possessing people or things will ultimately bring us heartache, frustration and regret. It is in realizing that although we cannot possess the moon, we can still behold its beauty, that we find lasting fulfillment and mental tranquility.



To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26

Inspirational Customer Service Quotes and Quotations

Inspirational Customer Service Quotes and Quotations

Your words can make someone go the extra mile.
Unknown

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The customer experience is the next competitive battleground.
Jerry Gregoire, CIO, Dell Computers
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You'll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can't be copied.
Jerry Fritz
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There are only two ways to get a new customer:
1. solicit a new customer any way you can.
2. Take good care of your present customers, so they don't become someone else's new customers.
Ed Zeitz
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We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
Charles Fillmore
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The customer is why you go to work. If they go away, you do, too.
David Haverford
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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
Peter F. Drucker
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Service to humanity is service to God. Let the love and light of the Kingdom radiate through you until all who look upon you shall be illumined by its reflection. Be as stars, brilliant and sparkling in the loftiness of their heavenly station.
Abdu'l Baha
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Some people choose not to donate their services because they believe that it somehow devalues them by "giving them away." In truth, there is nothing that demonstrates the value of your skills more than putting them to good use for a cause you believe in.
Scott Allen
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In the world of internet customer service, it is inportant to remember your competitor is only a mouse click away.
Doug Warner
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Revolve your world around the customer and more customers will revolve around you.
Heather Williams
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Merely satisfying customers will not be enough to earn their loyalty. Instead, they must experience exceptional service worthy of their repeat business and referral. Understand the factors that drive this customer revolution.
Rick Tate
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More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other.
Jim Cathart
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I don't do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.
Richard Bach
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Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
Elbert Hubbard
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Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.
Gucci Family Slogan
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The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford
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The Customer is King.
Unknown
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There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
Roger Staubach
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Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
Peter F. Drucker
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Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
Walt Disney
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If we don’t take care of our customers, someone else will.
Unknown
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify!
Henry David Thoreau
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If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.
Jeff Bezos
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Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
Donald Porter
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Give trust, and you'll get it double in return
Kees Kamies
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The quality of our work depends on the quality of our people.
Unknown
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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carol
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The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.
Sam Walton
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The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding customer service.
William H. Davidow
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
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Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.
Tony Alessandra
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Our greatest asset is the customer! Treat each customer as if they are the only one!
Laurice Leito
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People expect good service but few are willing to give it.
Robert Gately
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Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
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To my customer.I may not have the answer, but I’ll find it.I may not have the time, but I’ll make it.
Unknown
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Here is a simple but powerful rule - always give people more than what they expect to get.
Nelson Boswell
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In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want.
Alice Macdougall
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You’ll never have a product or price advantage again. They can be easily duplicated, but a strong customer service culture can’t be copied.
Jerry Fritz
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Good service is to spoil the customer, to make them highly difficult, demanding & unreasonable, and they will then become highly dependent on us.
Dick Ng

Love and Peace

Love and Peace



Discouragement is a poisonous swamp where life's most beautiful hopes are suffocated.

Hastiness becomes a fire to burn without purpose, often damaging the good work. Systematic fear forms a field where weeds grow and destroy the seedlings of hope.

Slander breeds uncountable wrongdoing.

Laziness weaves the destruction of labor as much as ill will inspires foolishness.

Violence is discussed with the exaggerated co-operation of the modern vehicles of informatics, stimulating sick minds and psychopathic personalities to surrender to hallucinations.

The therapy for the terrible disease that dominates the world is love in all its forms. Fraternal love that supports friendship and disseminates hope.

Spiritual love that spreads everyone's interests in communal well being. Christian love in active service that develops good work and spreads solidarity.

Love that understands mistakes is a copy of the love that re-educates, in the same manner that forgiving love promotes the love that redeems.

Discouragement, hastiness, fear, slander and laziness are forms of cruel violence and the bastard sons of selfishness which is in itself the author of the evils which misrule the world.

Contribute to orderliness and peace, using the verb to be happy. Speaking to help, spreading moral comfort and guidance for equilibrium. Use thought, protecting yourself against, pessimism, giving off mental waves of sympathy, praying in silence. Carrying out good works, even with simple gifts such as shedding some light in the darkness, a glass of cold water for the scaring thirst, a piece of bread proffered to the famished, a grain full of life in a fertile trough looking at the future ...

Each person can offer his best part, giving the most important share, which in plain and simple words is love.

In all events, notwithstanding that He could change the structures of His time and solve the problems of those who sought Him, Jesus, for love's sake helped each creature that came to Him, aiding them to change their attitude to life and thrive in goodness, and to proceed in peace in the direction of God, Who is Total Love.

Joanna de Angelis

Extract from the Book Recipes for Peace – Divaldo Pereira Franco (medium).

See God

See God

One day a 6 year old girl was sitting in a classroom. The teacher was going to explain evolution to the children. The teacher asked a little boy:
TEACHER: Tommy do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes
TEACHER: Do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
TEACHER: Go outside and look up and see if you can see the sky.
TOMMY: Okay. (He returned a few minutes later) Yes, I saw the sky.
TEACHER: Did you see God?
TOMMY: No.
TEACHER: That's my point. We can't see God because He isn't there. He doesn't exist.
A little girl spoke up and wanted to ask the boy some questions. The teacher agreed and the little girl asked the boy:
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy, do you see the tree outside?
TOMMY: Yes.
LITTLE GIRL: Tommy do you see the grass outside?
TOMMY: Yessssss (getting tired of the questions by this time).
LITTLE GIRL: Did you see the sky?
TOMMY: Yessssss
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see the teacher?
TOMMY: Yes
LITTLE GIRL: Do you see her brain?
TOMMY: No
LITTLE GIRL: Then according to what we were taught today in school she must not have one
"FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT"
- Author Unknown

Why It Is So Hard To Let Go

Why It Is So Hard To Let Go

The cheerful girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them: a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box.
"Oh please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?" Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl's upturned face. "A dollar ninety-five. That's almost $2.00. If you really want them, I'll think of some extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for yourself. Your birthday's only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma."
As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17 pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents.
On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at last she had enough money to buy the necklace.
Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up. She wore them everywhere - Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath. Mother said if they got wet, they might turn her neck green.
Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story. One night when he finished the story, he asked Jenny, "Do you love me?" "Oh yes, Daddy. You know that I love you." "Then give me your pearls." "Oh, Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have Princess - the white horse from my collection. The one with the pink tail. Remember, Daddy? The one you gave me. She's my favorite." "That's okay, Honey. Daddy loves you. Good night." And he brushed her cheek with a kiss.
About a week later, after the story time, Jenny's daddy asked again, "Do you love me?" "Daddy, you know I love you." "Then give me your pearls." "Oh Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got for my birthday. She is so beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that matches her sleeper." "That's okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one. Daddy loves you" And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss.
A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed Indian-style. As he came close, he noticed her chin was trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek. "What is it, Jenny? What's the matter?" Jenny didn't say anything but lifted her little hand up to her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace. With a little quiver, she finally said, "Here, Daddy. It's for you."
With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny's kind daddy reached out with one hand to take the dime-store necklace, and with the other hand he reached into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and gave them to Jenny. He had them all the time. He was just waiting for her to give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her genuine treasure.
So it is with our Heavenly Father. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasure. Isn't God good?
Are you holding onto things which God wants you to let go of. Are you holding on to harmful or unnecessary partners, relationships, habits and activities which you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe this one thing.............
God will never take away something without giving you something better in ....
-Author Unknown

Hey You

Hey You



Madonna




Hey you
Don't you give up
It's not so bad
There's still a chance for us
Hey you
Just be yourself
Don't be so shy
There's reasons why it's hard
Keep it together
You'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Would envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
Hey you
Open your heart
It's not so strange
You got to change this time
Hey you
Remember this
None of it's real
Including the way you feel
Keep it together
We'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Would envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
Save your soul
Little sister
Save your soul
Little brother
Hey you
Save yourself
Don't rely on anyone else
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you can save someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first
Hey you
There are on the fence
You got a choice
One day it will make sense
Hey you
First love yourself
Or if you can't
Try to love someone else
Keep it together
We'll make it alright
A celebration is going on tonight
Poets and prophets
Will envy what we do
This could be good
Hey you
First love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first love yourself
Then you can love someone else
If you can change someone else
Then you have saved someone else
But you must first

Best Anne Frank Quotes and Quotations

Best Anne Frank Quotes and Quotations

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
Anne Frank
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Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Anne Frank
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
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I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
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I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
Anne Frank
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Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: "What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews."
Anne Frank
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank
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Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne Frank
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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
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Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank

Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes

Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes

How do you deal with your past mistakes?
Today, I'd like to recommend a great way to burden your mind, waste time, and lower your self-esteem.
It's called Condemning Yourself for Past Mistakes.
Try it out on yourself and people you dislike! It's very easy to do, and anyone can do it. It’s great for injecting endless hours of frustration and stress into your life!
I've known many people who do this very well, but just in case you're having some difficulty, here are some pointers to send you on your way?
First, think of all the things you did or failed to do in the past.Especially, things which you cannot do anything about it now. Constantly remind yourself of them and beat yourself up for them.
A good way to do this is to keep whining about them. If you can regularly complain to others, it is even better! Remember to sigh a lot too. There's nothing like constant verbal repetition for these past mistakes to really stick.
Then, tell yourself that you'll never be able to adjust your behavior to prevent similar errors in future. Learning from mistakes just never crossed your mind. Remember, self-improvement is a myth.
This kind of thinking will start a vicious cycle. Remembering how incapable, unlovable, and foolish you are will enable you to continue repeating past mistakes. Now this part is essential in order for the entire self-loathing process to work.
In no time, you'll be able to whittle your self-esteem down to such a degree that you will have no problem thinking you're absolutely incapable of success and happiness. The strategy is laughably simple: reinforce negative thoughts and experiences and they will inevitably lead to negative feelings and outcomes.
Remember, you are not special, you are not unique. The world simply doesn't need another loser like you. If you're doing everything right, by this time, you would have lost most of your friends, alienated your family members, lost your appetite for food and life, and are looking forward to a lonely, meaningless existence.
So, if you're ever bored, and need to kill some time, depress your spirit and embrace failure as lord of your life, try condemning yourself for past mistakes. Have fun!


Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
Kahlil Gibran

My Christmas Wish

My Christmas Wish


If I could have
a Christmas wish come true,

I would wish for
wonderful things to come to you.

I wish you happiness
in everything you do,

And not many worries
or problems will come to you.

I wish you hope
that can brighten the cloudiest day,

And strength to accept
all that life sends your way.

May you rise each day
with sunlight in your heart,

And may all your hopes and dreams
never fall apart.

With my warmest thoughts
and memories of you,

I wish that all your joys and wishes
will come true.

When these special wishes
are delivered to your door,

There is no doubt they will be
accompanied by many more.

Of all the Christmas wishes
delivered to you yearly,

There couldn't be another
that's wished more warmly or sincerely.

~ Author Unknown ~

Positive Quotes and Quotations

Positive Quotes and Quotations

"Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything.
Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.
Be too big for worry and too noble for anger."
Christian D Larsen

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I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort.
Elizabeth T. King
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The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Unknown
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
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Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Roy R. Gilson
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For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Bette Howland
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Berke Breathed
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
David Hume
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Clarence Day
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Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
German Proverb
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Orison Swett Marden
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Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.
Unknown
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
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I was angered, for I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Chinese Proverb.
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it.
Terry Josephson
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
Woody Allen
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No one ever went broke by saying no too often.
Harvey B Mackay
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein

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Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
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The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson
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You are richer today if you have laughed, given or forgiven.
Unknown
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The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch
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It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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What worries you masters you.
Haddon W. Robinson
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Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances I let slip by, And which never returned again. It fills me with gloom when I ponder this, Till I look on the other side. How I might have been completely engulfed by misfortune's surging tide.
G.J. Russell
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.
Jim Evans
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.
Agnes Turnbull
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A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness.
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin
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It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Chuang Tzu
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
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Every moment you are happy is a gift to the rest of the world.
Harry Palmer
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Mark Twain Quotes and Quotations

Best Mark Twain Quotes and Quotations

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
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Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
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Only one thing, is impossible for god: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark Twain
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Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Mark Twain
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Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
Mark Twain
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain
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What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.
Mark Twain
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
Mark Twain
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mark Twain
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When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
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Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.
Mark Twain

Twenty Dollars

Twenty Dollars

A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked. "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you - but first, let me do this."
He proceeded to crumple the 20 dollar note up. He then asked. "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" He dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe. He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now, who still wants it?"
Still the hands went into the air."My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless; but no matter what happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who love you. The worth of our lives comes, not in what we do or who we know, but by ...WHO WE ARE.You are special - don't ever forget it."
-Author Unknown

Top Famous Quotes and Quotations By Famous People

Top Famous Quotes and Quotations By Famous People


Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
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There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.
Jean Paul Getty
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
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Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
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Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
Albert Einstein
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At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.
Patrick Moore
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
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To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
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God helps them that help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin
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Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
Rudyard Kipling
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Team Quotes and Quotations

Team Quotes and Quotations

I challenge you to think of one act of genuine significance in the history of humankind that was performed by a lone human being (apart from the redemptive work of Christ on the cross). No matter what you name, you will find that a team of people was involved.
John C. Maxwell

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Teamwork is neither 'good' nor 'desirable'. It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it.
Peter Drucker
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TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
Unknown
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We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Roman emperor)
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
Preston Bradley
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We have always found that people are most productive in small teams with tight budgets, time lines and the freedom to solve their own problems.
John Rollwagen
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The truth is that teamwork is at the heart of great achievement.
John Maxwell
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Many hands make light work.
John Heywood
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It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
Unknown
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There is no "I" in "TEAMWORK".
Unknown
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Teamwork: Simply stated, it is less me and more we.
Unknown
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Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Unknown
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Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie
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The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Unknown
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Teamwork is working together — even when apart.
Unknown
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None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society."
Vince Lombardi
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Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford
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The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player. Everyone is needed, but no one is necessary.
Bruce Coslet, Coach, Bengals
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
Vince Lombardi
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Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play.
Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC
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We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
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If I could solve all the problems myself, I would.
Thomas Edison, when asked why he had a team of twenty-one assistants
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Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
Stephen Covey
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Wearing the same shirts doesn't make you a team.
Buchholz and Roth
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
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It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.
Unknown
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There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.
George Shinn

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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
Casey Stengel
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Light is the task where many share the toil.
Homer
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No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.
B. Dodge
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No one person can accomplish much if they don’t work with others.
Daniel Levinson
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Coaches and teammates support me. No one can do things alone.
Pelé
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No manager is an island.
William Oncken, Jr.
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You don't get the breaks unless you play with the team instead of against it.
Lou Gehrig
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It takes two hands to clap.
Jiang Zemin
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Even when you've played the game of your life, it's the feeling of teamwork that you'll remember. You'll forget the plays, the shots, and the scores, but you'll never forget your teammates.
Deborah Miller Palmore
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Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.
Norman R. Augustine

Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations

Best Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Quotations

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.
Benjamin Franklin
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Joy is not in things! It is in us!
Benjamin Franklin
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Anger warms the Invention, but overheats the oven.
Benjamin Franklin
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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Benjamin Franklin
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin
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God heals and the Doctor takes the fee.
Benjamin Franklin
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
Benjamin Franklin
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He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin
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Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
Benjamin Franklin
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There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.
Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Benjamin Franklin
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Benjamin Franklin
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To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you would be loved, love and be lovable
Benjamin Franklin
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Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
Benjamin Franklin
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A man is not completely born until he is dead.
Benjamin Franklin
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A penny saved is a penny earned
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard's Almanac

Best Coretta Scott King Quotes and Quotations

Best Coretta Scott King Quotes and Quotations

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Coretta Scott King
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I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King
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Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become.
Coretta Scott King
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
Coretta Scott King
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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
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Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.
Coretta Scott King

Only If I Try

Only If I Try

Sometimes, only if I try, that is the only way I can know if it can be done or not.
There was a young man named Kimana. He wanted to marry the Sky Maiden. He wrote a letter to her father, the Sun Chief. Kimana went to Rabbit. "Will you take this letter?"
Rabbit said, "I cannot go to Heaven." Kimana went to Antelope. "Will you take this letter?" Antelope said, "I cannot go to Heaven." Kimana went to Hawk. "Will you take this letter?" Hawk said, "I can go halfway. But I cannot go to Heaven." Then Frog came to Kimana. "Why do you not take the letter yourself?" Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will take it for you." Kimana laughed. "Can a frog take a letter to Heaven?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try."
Now, Frog lived by a well. Every day, the girls who served the Sun Chief came to this well. They climbed down from Heaven on a web made by Spider. Then they filled their water jugs and went home. Frog put the letter in his mouth and hid in the well. The girls from Heaven came for water, singing their song.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped into one. The girls did not see. Then the girls climbed back up the web of Spider. They went into the house of the Sun Chief and left the jugs in a room.
Frog was alone. He jumped out of the jug and spit the letter out on a bench. Then he hid in a corner. The Sun Chief came for a drink of water. He saw the letter and opened it.
He read,"I, Kimana, a man of earth, wish to marry the Sky Maiden, your daughter." The Sun Chief said, "How can this be?" He went to the girls who fetched water. "Did you bring this letter?" The girls said, "We did not." He went to his wife, the Moon Lady, and read it to her. "What should we do?" The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "Let us see if he can bring a wedding gift."
So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and set it on the bench. Then he went away. Frog came out and put the letter in his mouth. Then he climbed into an empty jug.
The next day, the girls took the jugs and climbed down to earth, singing their song.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They lowered their jugs into the well, and Frog jumped out. The girls did not see.Then the girls went back to Heaven.
Frog took the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it. "You may marry my daughter if you bring a purse of money." Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will bring it for you." Kimana laughed. "You took a letter to Heaven. But can you bring a purse of money?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try." Kimana gave Frog a purse of money. Frog took hold of it with his mouth and carried it to the well. He climbed in and waited. The girls from Heaven came to the well.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
Frog got into one of the jugs. The girls returned to Heaven and left him in the room. Frog set the money on the bench. Then he hid.
The Sun Chief came and found the purse.
"How can this be?" He went to the girls. "Did you bring this money?" The girls said, "We did not." He went to his wife. The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "Let us see if he can come fetch me." So the Sun Chief wrote a letter and left it on the bench. Frog put the letter in his mouth and climbed into an empty jug. The next day, the girls carried him to earth.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
He jumped back into the well, and the girls went back to Heaven. Frog brought the letter to Kimana, and Kimana read it.
"You may marry my daughter if you come and fetch her." Kimana said, "This I cannot do." Frog said, "Then I will fetch her for you." Kimana laughed. "You took a letter to Heaven. You brought a purse of money. But can you fetch a bride?" Frog said, "Whatever it is, I can do it. But only if I try." Frog climbed back into the well. The girls came with their jugs.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
They carried him to Heaven. Frog jumped out. He spit in all the jugs of water. Ptui. Ptui. Ptui. Then he hid in an empty jug. The people of the house came and drank the water. They all got sick.
The Sun Chief called for the spirit doctor. The doctor told him, "You promised your daughter to a man of earth, but she has not gone. He has sent an evil spirit with a sickness. The evil spirit is in the shape of a frog."
The Sun Chief went to his wife. The Moon Lady said, "Don't ask me! Ask your daughter!" He went to his daughter. The Sky Maiden said, "I will go." The next day, the Sky Maiden went with the girls down to the well.
Good day to you, my sister. Good day to you.
The girls filled their jugs, and Frog jumped out. Then the girls left the Sky Maiden and went home.
Frog jumped out of the well. "I will lead you to your husband." The Sky Maiden laughed. "Can a frog lead a woman?" Frog said, "I took a letter to Heaven. I brought a purse of money. I fetched a bride. Whatever it was, I could do it. But only if I try."
The Sky Maiden said, "Then it is you I will marry." She took Frog back to Heaven and married him. They lived on and on. And Kimana is still waiting for his bride.


Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
Henry Ford

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll