Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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The Road Not Taken |
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Principles
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- If we work upon marble, it will perish,
If we work upon brass, time will efface it.
If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust but,
If we work on man's immortal minds,
If we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow man,
We engrave upon those tablets something which no time can efface and which will brighten and brighten to eternity.
- Daniel Webster
(Taken from the dedication plaque of the Hub at Haliburton Scout Reserve)
- "The greatest power is often simple patience."
- E. Joseph Cossman
- "Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach your destiny."
- Carl Schurz
- "There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true
nobility is in being superiour to your previous self."
- Hindustani proverb
- "Promote yourself, but do not demote another."
- Israel Salanter
- "No man can hold another man in the gutter without remaining there himself."
- Booker T. Washington
- "Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."
- American Indian Proverb
- "Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare
- "I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble."
- Rudyard Kipling
- "What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
- Frank Herbert, Dune--Manual of MuadDib by Princess Irulan
- "We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."
- Edwin Markham
- "The longer I live the more I am convinced that the one thing worth living for and dying for is the priviledge of making someone more happy and more useful. No man who ever does anything to lift his fellows ever makes a sacrifice."
- Booker T. Washington
- "There is a wonderful mystical law of nature that the three things we crave the most in life--happiness, freedom, and peace of mind--are always attained by giving them to someone else."
- Unknown
- "Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize."
- Elizabeth Harrison
- "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
- Aldous Huxley
- "Love not what you are, but what you may become."
- Miguel de Cervantes
- "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
- Mahatma Gandhi
- "There is nothing that makes men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. Wealth is in the heart, not in the hand."
- John Milton
- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "He that respects himself if safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
- "Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do."
- Don Galer
- "You should not live one way in private, another in public."
- Publilius Syrus
- "There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity."
- Tom Peters
- "That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
- William J.H. Boetcker
- "When things go wrong--don't go wrong with them."
- Anonymous
- "No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back."
- Turkish Proverb
- "Only mediocre people are always at their best."
- Somerset Maugham
- "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""
- Charlie Brown, Peanuts
- "It is the mind that makes the body."
- Sojourner Truth
- "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."
- William James
- "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
- Plutarch
- "Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend."
- Jules Renard
- "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you into trouble."
- Frank Tyger
- "Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot."
- Steve Post
- "When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
- Charles Caleb Colton
- "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
- Unknown
- "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- "Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- "Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."
- Herbert Gardner
- "Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
- William Hazlitt
- "If you are going to be able to look back at something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."
- Marie Osmond
- "The secret of contentment is the realization that life is a gift, not a right."
- Anonymous
- "The moment of victory is much to short to live for that and nothing else."
- Martina Navratilova
- "As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
- Seneca
- "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
- A. Sachs
- "He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything."
- Anonymous
- "Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
- Bern Williams
- "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than
you need."
- Kahlil Gibran
- "If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your
heart."
- Arab Proverb
- "We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
- Seneca
- "This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."
- William Lyon Phelps
- "The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is
my religion."
- Thomas Paine
- "To err is human, to forgive divine."
- Alexander Pope
- "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
- Josh Billings
- "Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."
- John L. Motley
- "True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn."
- Phillip Massinger
- "It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them."
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."
- Kurt Lewin
- "To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen."
- Frank Herbert, Dune--The Amtal Rule
- "The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn"
- David Russel
- "The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone."
- T. H. Huxley
- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God."
- Nelson Mandela
- "This book won't tell you how to cheat, because when you fail to
deal with reality, you only cheat yourself. What I mean to do is
turn you into a shrewd player who wins whenever possible."
- Kermit Busganglion, The Hand You're Dealt
- "You're free to be THE BEST "YOU" THAT YOU CAN POSSIBLY BE! You're
OKAY! So take charge of your life and learn how to be YOUR OWN
BEST FRIEND!
"Also, get PERSONAL POWER over your POTENTIAL and LEARN HOW TO
ASSERT IT!! Grok yourself fully during QUALITY TIME!! Dare to be
great! Remember: TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!"
- Kermit Busganglion, The Hand You're Dealt
- "We have all come to think of change as something that happens to
Us; but I am telling you that change is something we make happen--
"the deliberate cooking of our cosmic egg," as Jan Morris has written.
So, do you want your life to be poached or scrambled? Do you see
yourself as fried or hardboiled? I say add some cheese and fresh
vegetables and make yourself an omelette!"
- Kermit Busganglion, The Hand You're Dealt
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