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Quote of the Week: One of the deep secrets of life is all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll
May 3 2011
Posted by Baumann, Carol

 

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. - Japanese Proverb 

Happiness is a place between too much and too little. - Rita Mae Brown 

If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. - B.B. King

A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.- Bob Kerrey, President of New School University 

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis

Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows him? — Alec Guiness  

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell. - Bill Copeland 

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis

Life is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us. -Sir Thomas Brown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close 

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B.F Skinner 

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen. James Russel Lowell 

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.- Joshua J. Marine 

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.  And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. the Dalai Lama
 
It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 

Success is 10% strategy and 90% execution. - YP Chen 

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life. -  Kenny Rogers 

If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.  - Mahatma Gandhi 

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.- Judy Garland 

As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person. - Paul Shane Spear

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. - B. F. Skinner

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself – George Bernard Shaw 

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. -  Joseph Joubert

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. -  Karen Kaiser Clark
 
We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are - Talmud. 
 
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Theresa

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke 

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. - Martin Luther

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back - Arthur Rubinstein 

Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit. - Nigerien Proverb

It is the trouble that never comes that causes the lack of sleep.   - Charles Austin Bates

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. - John Andrew Holmes Jr 

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.- Charles M. Schulz

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Wayne Gretzky
 
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. - Babe Ruth 

It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot 

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. — Andrew Carnegie 

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

Years teach us more than books. - Berthold Auerbach

Arguing with a fool proves there are two. - Doris M. Smith

Remember, you can do anything, but not everything. -Anonymous 

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened. - Thomas Jefferson

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by us standing in our own sunshine. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein 

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others. - Carl Rogers

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.- Richard Bach

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. -Charles Swindoll 

He knows the water best who has waded through it. Danish proverb

You must look into other people as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield 

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. -Theodore Roosevelt 

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Hate is never conquered by hate, Hate is only conquered by love. - The Buddha

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley 

There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can. - Henry Ford 

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. - Charles Swindoll 

A good name will shine forever.  -Proverb

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch  

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.  - Albert Einstein

He who has hope has everything. - Arabian Proverb

Nothing will ever be attempted is all possible objections must first be overcome. - Samuel Johnson

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader. -Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee.  If weaker, spare him.  If stronger, spare thyself. -William Shakespeare 

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. -Albert Schweitzer

After the game, the king and the pawn go in the same box. - Italian Proverb

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher

Don't follow your dreams; chase them. - Richard Dumb 

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene 

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. - Rita Mae Brown.

Actions speak louder than words but not nearly as often. - Mark Twain 

 Worry, like a rocking chair will give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere. – Vance Havner

By associating with wise people, you will become wise yourself. - Menander 

Talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. - Christian D Larson 

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done".- Peter Drucker 

Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. - Christian D Larson 

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. -Johann Von Goethe 

Treasure your relationships not your possessions. -Anthony d'Angelo 

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. -Peter Drucker 

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.  -Mother Teresa 

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. - Michael Jordan

The foundation upon which Rotary is built is friendship; on no less firm foundation could it have stood. Paul P Harris

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw 

Friendship was the foundation rock on which Rotary was built and tolerance is the element which holds it together. -Paul Harris

 Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. - Christian D. Larson 

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. - Brandi Snyder 

Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble - Christian D. Larson 

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. - Doug Floyd 

Wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. - Christian D. Larson 

One of the deep secrets of life is all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll 

The first step in exceeding your customers' expectations is to know those expectations. - Roy H. Williams 

The only ones who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer

Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. - Christian D Larson



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