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"The things that come to those who
wait, may be
the things left by those who got
there first."
Should be credited to Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln's advisors
were telling him the time wasn't
right for him to run for
President and that "good things come
to those who wait."
Lincoln then made the above statement,
decided to
run for President, and the rest is
history.
"In the hospital they told us that
pain is something you
experience and then put behind you.
I disagree, I think
you hold everything, pain and pleasure,
in your heart, and
that memory only deepens the next
experience."
"Some people come into our lives and
quickly go. Some
stay for awhile and leave footprints
on our hearts. And we
are never, ever the same."
"At the end of your life you won't
regret not scoring one
more point or closing one more deal,
you will regret time
not spent with a wife, a husband,
a child, or a friend."
"Freedom is an indivisible word.
If we want to enjoy it,
and fight for it, we must be prepared
to extend it to
everyone."
-Wendell L. Willkie
"Worry is like a rocking chair: It
gives you something
to do, but doesn't get you anywhere."
"Integrity: Doing the right thing...even
when no one is
looking."
"A man's feet should be planted in
his country, but his
eyes should survey the world."
"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned
to repeat it."
"The young man who has not wept is
a savage, and the old
man who will not laugh is a fool."
All three are credited to George
Santayana
"There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved."
--George Sand
"Buy land, they're not making it anymore."
--Mark Twain
"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow
from flying over
your head, but you can prevent them
from building nests
in your hair."
"The hunger for love is much more
difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread."
--Mother Teresa
"It is better to die on your feet
than to live on your knees!"
--Emiliano Zapata
"The only competition worthy of a
wise man is with
himself."
--Washington Allston
"It is better to be defeated on principle
than to win
on lies."
--Arthur Calwell
"Things turn out best for those that
make the best of the
way things turn out."
--Art Linkletter
"Don't marry the person you can live
with, marry the
person you can't live without."
--Author Unknown
"Those who expect nothing shall never
be disappointed."
--unknown
"A man may die, nations may rise and
fall, but an idea
lives on."
--John F. Kennedy
"Some men see things as they are and
say why? I dream
things that never were and say 'Why
not?'"
--Robert Kennedy
"Our lives are books, written in our
own blood on the
tattered pages of time."
--Ryan K. Miller I
"The poor man is not he who is without
a cent, but he
who is without a dream."
--Harry Kemp