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The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God’s commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
Speaker: Henry B. EyringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Speaker: Randy PauschPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:55 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Speaker: Mohandas GandhiPosted: 31 Aug 2009 at 8:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He drew a circle that shut me out – Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the will to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!Speaker: Edwin MarkhamPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 8:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Speaker: Sir Richard SteelePosted: 07 Oct 2008 at 8:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters. But Old Derby was a character now.
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Speaker: Franklin D. RooseveltPosted: 16 Sep 2009 at 8:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Often [friend-centeredness] results, finally, in his losing the very thing desired, as he strives to become all things to all people. He ends up becoming nothing to everyone, including himself.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t fall off the floor.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
Speaker: Herbert Bayard SwopeSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Try to give ten sincere compliments a day, to ten different people. You’ll find that your whole world changes by the accomplishment of this one goal.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
10% of my job is actually doing it, while 90% is trying to figure out why what I did is not working correctly.
Speaker: Randall BoothPosted: 10 Apr 2008 at 2:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
you do not believe in God, you only believe in science
Speaker: jack blackPosted: 26 Nov 2007 at 2:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury
Speaker: Marcus AureliusPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My grandmother once told me, 'Don’t let failure go to your heart and don’t let success go to your head.’
Speaker: Will SmithPosted: 28 Apr 2009 at 11:31 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ce n’est pas parce que les choses sont difficiles que nous n’osons pas, c’est parce que nous n’osons pas qu’elles sont difficiles.
Speaker: SénèquePosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 4:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They’re all free I’m assuming, right? You’re a free kinda guy….
Speaker: ChadPosted: 21 Nov 2007 at 6:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!