Sharks, Betters, Education

There are 350 varieties of shark, not counting loan and pool.
~ L. M. Boyd

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or
predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner

The highest result of education is tolerance.
~ Helen Keller

Virtues, Herd Mentality, Seriously

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they
go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one
by one.
~ Charles Mackay

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
~ Rudyard Kipling

Trees, Longevity, Estate

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard
fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them
as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in
that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.
~ Willa Cather

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would
have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you
didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
~ George Burns

My friends are my estate.
~ Emily Dickinson

Freedom, Failure, History

The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is
that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
~ Robert Jackson

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

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H. G. Wells

Charitable, Deeds, Work

Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
~ Sir Thomas Browne

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
~ Marian Evans

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things
are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it.
And they must have a sense of success in it.
~ John Ruskin

Silence, Inspiration, Victories

He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation
perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith

You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full
advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient
time, nor do they last long.
~ Hugh Macleod

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
~ Ralph W. Sockman

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Parenting, Control, Influence

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will
choose your rest home.
~ Phyllis Diller

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You
are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you
have made.
~ Barbara Hall

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and
wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a
power.
~ Henry George

Play, Team, Offense

Play builds the kind of free-and-easy, try-it-out, do-it-yourself
character that our future needs. We must become more self-conscious
and more explicit in our praise and reinforcement as children use
unstructured play materials: ''That's good. You use your own ideas
.... " ''That's good. You did it your way .... " ''That's good. You
thought it all out yourself. "
~ James L. Hymes, Jr., child development specialist, author

Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though,
if you jumble it up.
~ David Shore

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
~ Robertson Davies

Reputation, Beauty

There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
~ Casey Stengel

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation.
~ Oscar Wilde

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extraordinary, Friends, Sorrow

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the
world what makes you extraordinary.
~ Margaret Cho

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Character, Truth, Lost love

The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people
who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't
fight back.
~ Abigail van Buren

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it
wants, is the liberty of appearing.
~ Thomas Paine

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the
memory of hours when we loved not enough.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Fed, Religion, Light

No one ever filed for divorce on a full stomach.
~ Mamma Leone.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
~ Carl Sandburg

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
~ Marianne Williamson

Markets, work, humanity

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable
to dispense it.
~ Dick Cavett

Work keeps us from three great evils, boredom, vice and need.
~ François Marie Arouet Voltaire

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that
matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a
human.
~ Ben Stein

Castles in the Air, Faith, Supporter

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. That
is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared
to take offense, no matter what happens.
~ Robert Benchley

Understanding, Choices, Swings

When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not
understanding some things.
~ Real Live Preacher

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
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 world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.
~ Natty Nats

Three R's, video games, squeaky wheel

Follow the three Rs: Respect for yourself, Respect for others and,
Responsibility for all your actions.
~ Advice

Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and
listening to repetitive music.
~ Marcus Brigstocke

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
~ Vic Gold

Fear, Arrogance, Genius

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
~ Peter McWilliams

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be
curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance.
~ Cicero - 55 BC

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

Advancement, Play, Caring

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been
sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature.
~ Tom Robbins ,author

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of
whatever a body is not obliged to do.
~ Mark Twain, author

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~ Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Pain, Saving graces

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your
smile can be the source of your joy.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is
his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
~ C.S. Lewis

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are
saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense
in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore,
we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the
standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are
saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr