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“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact. Be not afraid to live.”
- William James

“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.”
- Amy Tan

“One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
- Mark Twain

“Moral responsibility is not just a matter of avoiding harm to others; it also means helping people in need.”
- Michael Nedelsky

“Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.”
- Rachel Naomi Remen

“In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.”
- Ben Hech

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
- Sam Walton

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
- Oscar Wilde

“You’re born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
- John Mason

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
- Jane Austin
“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
- J. K. Rowling

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
- Edgar Allen Poe

“The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.”
- Henry David Thoreau

“Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you’ve imagined it to be.”
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that ensures the successful outcome of the venture.”
- William James

“Like pride, blind optimism may go before a fall.”
- David Myers

“Keep your thoughts positive, because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive, because your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive, because your behavior become your habits.
Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”
- Voltaire

“In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
- Winston Churchill

“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.”
- J. Donald Walters

“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational — but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?”
- Judith Viorst

“Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way — how many pleasing things are done for you.”
- Claude M. Bristol

“A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.”
- Phillips Brooks

“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”
- Leo Tolstoy

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
- Albert Einstein

“The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
- Henrik Ibsen

“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”
- Dwight Eisenhower

I never did very well in mathI could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
- Calvin Trillin

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? . . . Movie Day.
- Jay Mohr

Modern cynics and skeptics…see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom
they entrust the care of their plumbing.
- John F. Kennedy

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
- Horace Mann

When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.
- The Talmud

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
- Henry Brooks Adams

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.
- Helen Caldicott

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
- Japanese proverb

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
- Anonymous

Education is light, lack of it darkness.
- Russian proverb

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.
- Chinese Proverb

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools.
- Anonymous

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
- Woody Allen

* If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you’re doing. Love what you’re doing. And believe in what you’re doing.
- Will Rogers

* The people that get on in this world are the people that get up and look for the circumstances that they want; and if they can’t find them, they make
them.
- George Bernard Shaw

*The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

* The best way to predict the future is to create it!
- Jason Kaufmann

* Whatever doesnt kill you makes you stronger.
- Unknown

* The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.
- L. Kaiser

* The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
- Mark Caine

This is Rex Barker, contemplating success, reminding you to get rid of the doubt that holds you back and start your path to success, however you define
it. Start today.

Classic Quotes by Frank Herbert

1920-1986

US writer

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain,
you cannot see the mountain.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore,
maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience
carries its lesson.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
 

Classic Quotes by Chester Allen Arthur

1830-1886)

US President (21st), VP (20th)

Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

I don’t think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking
it all down.
 

Classic Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

1822-1893

US President (19)

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear…

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

An amazing invention – but who would ever want to use one? (made a call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, patented
on 7 March 1876)

It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens
of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution.

Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of men in my own
party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties . . .
 

Classic Quotes by Al Capp

1909-1979

US cartoonist

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.

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There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl
Marx’s Capital.

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.
 

Classic Quotes by Upton Sinclair

1878-1968)

US writer

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

I just put on what the lady says. I’ve been married three times, so I’ve had lots of supervision.

In the twilight, it was a vision of power.