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"Always, always do the right thing for the right reason at the right time with the right people. [And] you will have no regrets for the rest of your life."
--Allan McDonald - Engineer who unsuccessfully argued to ground Challenger launch in 1986

INSPIRATION

Creative Quotes:

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. Many will not understand but you have to raise warriors"
--G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain--

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
--Mark Twain--

"If you allow the government to break the law because of an emergency, They will always create an emergency to break the law."
--Unknown--

"A wise man once said "be careful who you let on your ship, because some people will sink the whole ship just because they can't be the captain"."
--Unknown--

"Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and free themselves from the fools."
--Unknown--

"I don't understand the questions of things he can answer."
--Ed Lynch of Mets teammate Ron Darling, a Yale grad--

"It's better to be a warrior in a garden, than to be a gardener in a war."
--Bruce Lee--

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
--Albert Einstein--

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill--

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

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi--

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi--

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
--George Washington--

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
--Epicurus--

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless."
--Chester W. Nimitz--

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
--Carl Sagan--

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
--Isaac Asimov--

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done."
--Robert A. Heinlein--

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill--

"We're stronger than things are terrible."
--Dr. Jordan Peterson--

"The job is not stressful. I'm either right, or it's not my problem any more."
--Unknown Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Technician--

"Being like everybody is the same as being nobody"
--Rod Serling--

"It's now very common to hear people say,"I'm rather offended by that", as if that gives them certain rights. It's no more than a whine. It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.

"I'm offended by that."

Well, so f*#@ing what?"
--Stephan Fry--

"Republicans think every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats think every day is the Fifteenth of April."
--Ronald Reagan--

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."
--Alexander the Great--

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
--Mark Twain--

"Sometimes the thoughts in my head get so bored they go out for a stroll through my mouth.

This is rarely a good thing."
--Scott Westerfield--

"It's hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it's damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person."
--Bill Murray--

"When asked what surprised him most about humanity, he answered "Man.
Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and dies having never really lived."
--Dalai Lama--

"Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they have."
--Unknown--

"Never tell your problems to anyone.

20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them."
--Unknown--

"A man once told The Buddha,
"I want happiness"

The Buddha replied
"First remove 'I', that's ego
Then remove 'want', that's desire.

And now all you're left with is
Happiness."
--Buddha--

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy"
--Unknown--

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
--Bil Keane--

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
--Elbert Hubbard--

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
--Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel--

"Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again."
--Eleanor Roosevelt--

"Do one thing every day that scares you."
--Eleanor Roosevelt--

"What you read when you don't have to determines what you will be when you can't help it."
--Oscar Wilde--

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."
--W.C. Fields--

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
--Friedrich Nietzsche--

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
--Plato--

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"
--Satchel Paige--

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
--Jimmy Dean--

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
--Oscar Wilde--

"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."
--Oprah Winfrey--

"A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
--Benjamin Franklin--

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse."
--Benjamin Franklin--

"Winners lose more than losers. They win and lose more than losers, because they stay in the game."
--Terry Paulson (Psychologist)--

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr--

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
--Richard Nixon--

"There are seven things that will destroy us:
Wealth without work;
Pleasure without conscience;
Knowledge without character;
Religion without sacrifice;
Politics without principle;
Science without humanity;
Business without ethics."
--Ghandi--

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."
--John D. MacDonald--

"When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless."
--Chris Colfer--

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your dreams. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain--

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
--Thomas Edison--

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
--Mark Twain--

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway."
--Eleanor Roosevelt--

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Bernard M. Baruch--

"We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don't believe in miracles?"
--Welt der WunderÂ by Marteria--

"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
--William W. Purkey--

"Happiness is a journey, not a destination."
--Alfred D. Souza--

"The main vice of Capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of Socialism is the even distribution of misery."
--Winston Churchill--

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."
--Alfred D. Souza--

"The best angle from which to approach any problem is the TRYangle."
--Fortune Cookie--

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
--Jeff Rich--

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
--Jeff Rich--

"You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it."
--Benjaman Mee (Matt Damon)-
-We Bought A Zoo--

"It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies: do the thing- "Carry a message to Garcia!"
--Elbert Hubbard-
A Message to Garcia--

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"...no one told you when to run; you missed the starting gun"
--Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon-1973--

"Be one who nurtures and builds. Be one who has an understanding and forgiving heart; who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them."
--Marvin J. Ashton--

"Life is about making an impact, not making an income."
--Kevin Kruse--

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
--Napoleon Hill--

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
--Albert Einstein--

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost--

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."
--Florence Nightingale--

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
--Wayne Gretzky--

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
--Michael Jordan--

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
--Amelia Earhart--

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."
--Babe Ruth--

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement."
--W. Clement Stone--

"Life isn't about getting and having, it's about giving and being."
--Kevin Kruse--

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
--John Lennon--

"We become what we think about."
--Earl Nightingale--

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."
--Mark Twain--

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

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
--Alice Walker--

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
--Buddha--

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
--Chinese Proverb--

"An unexamined life is not worth living."
--Socrates--

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."
--Woody Allen--

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
--Steve Jobs--

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."
--Vince Lombardi--

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
--Stephen Covey--

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
--Pablo Picasso--

"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
--Christopher Columbus--

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
--Maya Angelou--

"Either you run the day, or the day runs you."
--Jim Rohn--

"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right."
--Henry Ford--

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."
--Mark Twain--

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe--

"The best revenge is massive success."
--Frank Sinatra--

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily."
--Zig Ziglar--

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
--Anais Nin--

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."
--Vincent Van Gogh--

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
--Aristotle--

"Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you."
--Jesus--

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson--

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
--Henry David Thoreau--

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me."
--Erma Bombeck--

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."
--Booker T. Washington--

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."
-- Ancient Indian Proverb--

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."
--Theodore Roosevelt--

"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."
--George Addair--

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
--Plato--

"Teach thy tongue to say, I do not know, and thous shalt progress."
--Maimonides--

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."
--Arthur Ashe--

"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
--John Lennon--

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
--Japanese Proverb--

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
--Helen Keller--

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see."
--Confucius--

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
--Anne Frank--

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
--Lao Tzu--

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
--Maya Angelou--

"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."
--Dalai Lama--

"If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on."
--Sheryl Sandberg--

"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end."
--Aristotle--

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
--Latin Proverb--

"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground."
--Unknown--

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
--Marie Curie--

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
--Les Brown--

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

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."
--Booker T. Washington--

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
--Leonardo da Vinci--

"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."
--Jamie Paolinetti--

"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."
--Erica Jong--

"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
--Bob Dylan--

"I didn't fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
--Benjamin Franklin--

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
--Bill Cosby--

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
-- Albert Einstein--

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it."
--Chinese Proverb--

"There are no traffic jams along the extra mile."
--Roger Staubach--

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

"You become what you believe."
--Oprah Winfrey--

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
--Vincent van Gogh--

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
--Unknown--

"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."
--Ann Landers--

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."
--Abigail Van Buren--

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."
--Farrah Gray--

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself the invisible battles inside all of us that's where it's at."
--Jesse Owens--

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."
--Sir Claus Moser--

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
--Rosa Parks--

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
--Confucius--

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
--Oprah Winfrey--

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
--Dalai Lama--

"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
--Maya Angelou--

"Dream big and dare to fail."
--Norman Vaughan--

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
--Martin Luther King Jr.--

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

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
--Unknown--

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
--Gloria Steinem--

"It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."
--Mae Jemison--

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
--Beverly Sills--

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt--

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."
--Grandma Moses--

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
--Ayn Rand--

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
--Henry Ford--

"It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln--

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
--Norman Vincent Peale--

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
--Benjamin Franklin--

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, I'm possible!
--Audrey Hepburn--

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
--Steve Jobs--

"If you can dream it, you can achieve it. "
--Zig Ziglar--

Keep in mind...For any life-changing opportunity--
--"It probably won't be easy; but it won't be hard forever. "
--Unknown--

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
--Mark Twain--

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
--Ronald Reagan--

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."
---Thomas Jefferson--

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
---Thomas Jefferson--

"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. "
--Thomas Jefferson--

"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... "
--Thomas Jefferson--

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."
--Thomas Jefferson--

"Blasting, billowing, bursting forth with the Power of ten billion butterfly sneezes, Man with his flaming pyre has conquered the wayward breezes."
--Moody Blues-
Higher and Higher
To Our Childrens' Childrens' Children--

"If it be true, celestial Powers,
That you have formed me fair,
And yet in all my vainest hours

My mind has been my care;
Then in return I beg this grace,
As you were ever kind:
What envious Time takes from my face,
Bestow upon my mind."
--Esther Johnson--

"In the instant that you love someone
In the second that the hammer hits
Reality runs up your spine
And the pieces finally fit"
--Elton John-
The One
The One--

"The only difference between a taxidermist and the taxman, is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
--Mark Twain--

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein--

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
--Albert Einstein--

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
--Albert Einstein--

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein--

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
--Albert Einstein--

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
--Albert Einstein--

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
--Albert Einstein--

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
--Albert Einstein--

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
--Albert Einstein--

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
--Albert Einstein--

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
--Albert Einstein--

"Be careful when you follow the Masses; sometimes the "M" is silent."
--Unknown--

"If you're being chased by an animal, just lay on the ground for 5 seconds. The 5 second rule will prevent the animal from eating you."
--LifeAdviceLamp--

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough."
--William Blake--

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."
--Suzy Kassem--

"Well, another day has passed and I didn't use algebra."
--Unknown--

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."
--Walt Whitman--

"It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."
--Amelia Barr--

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. "
--Vince Lombardi--

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."
--Mother Teresa--

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
--Ronald Reagan--

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
--Plutarch--

"And it won't make one bit of difference
If I answer right or wrong
When you're rich they think you really know.."
--Tevye
If I Were A Rich Man
Fiddler On The Roof--

"You just can't beat the person who never gives up. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
--Babe Ruth--

"When you are dead you don't know that you're dead, but it's hard for the people around you.
It's the same if you are stupid."
--Unknown--

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