Quotations

Friendship
Love
On Wisdom
Proverbs
Humourous
Winners
Truth
Faith
Dreams
Work and Success
Principles
Women
Youth
Other Good Quotes

Poems
and
Parables:

Scouting Poetry
Consider
The Rover Prayer
When You Walk
Through The Woods

On My Honour
I Am The Child
I AM
Your State of Mind

Religious Poetry
The World is Mine
What God Hath
Promised

Footprints
Healer's Hymn
(Latin)
(English)

Jason 'Bark' Barker
Life
The Sun
Friendship

John 'Flip' James
Words
We Two Parted
Of Times Past
Once more alive?
Here Stands...

Mary McTaggart
(née Morrison)

The Sacrifice
Tragedy

Miscellaneous Poetry
Rivendell Valley
Angels
Declaration of
Principles

The Second Coming
Sea Fever
I Know Not Who I Are
Wordsworth
The Joys of the Road
Weep No More
Never Love
Around The Corner
A Song for Tricia

Parables:
When Night Ends
Thoughts on God
Everybody's Canoe
The Russians
A Closed Hand
Can't Receive

Five Great Lessons
Non-Denominational
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Work and Success

"Success has a simple formula: do your best and people may like it."
Sam Ewing

"I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
Stephen Leacock

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can."
Syndey Smith

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
Walter Elliott

"We never fail when we try to do our duty - we always fail when we neglect to do it."
Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell

"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."
Unknown

"A man can succeed at almost everything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."
Charles M. Schwab

"If at first you do succeed--try to hide your astonishment."
LA Times Syndicate

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
Indira Ghandi

"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
E. Joseph Cossman

"The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."
Anonymous

"There are too many people praying for mountains of difficulty to be removed, when what they really need is courage to climb them."
Unknown

"If you're falling off a cliff, you might as well try to fly; you've got nothing to lose."
John Sheridan, Babylon-5



This page was last updated on Friday, 29 March 2002.
Created: 27 November 1995.
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