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“Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.”
JANE AUSTEN“The artist must be an egotist because, like the spider, he draws all his building material from his own breast. But just the same the artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.”
RHETA CHILDE DORR“The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.”
L. THOMAS HOLDCROFT“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.”
EDWARD R. MURROW“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.”
G.B. [GLADYS BERTHA] STERN“Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'”
YODA“There is no limit to the amount of good a man can do, as long as he does not care who takes the credit.”
SUNDAY-BOLORUNDURO AWONIYI“Every person in this life has something to teach me--and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.”
CATHERINE DOUCETTE“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up, depends on us.”
L. THOMAS HOLDCROFT“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU“Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.”
LAWRENCE STERNE“The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.”
ANONYMOUS“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
JOHN ADAMS