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Some of Our Favorite Quotes
 

If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, for I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale
 

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Jim Elliot

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, As long as ever you can.

John Wesley

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
 

Life is like a great big grinding wheel. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of.
Author Unknown

It never hurts your eyesight to look on the bright side of things.
 

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

 

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?"

Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

 

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

 

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

To measure the man, measure his heart.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
                                                                    

 

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Edison
 

 

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

Harry Firestone
 

 

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt
 

 

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

Arthur C. Clarke
 

 

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 

 

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau
 

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius
 

 

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
 

 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill
 

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very un-dramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”
Arthur Ashe


 
 

 

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