wisdom-world-wide

"There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose." ~William M. Bulger

"This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow,

as the night the day,thou canst not then be false to any man." ~William Shakespeare

"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ~Sir Winston Churchill

"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each one of us can work to change a small portion of events and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." ~Robert F. Kennedy

"If we had no winter,the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~Charlotte Bronte

"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are: first;hard work,

second;stick-to-it-iveness,and third;common sense." ~Thomas Alva Edison

"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 which has been opened for us."

~Helen Keller

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do,

something to love, and something to hope for." ~Joseph Addison

"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, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong." ~Abraham Lincoln fT

"...have the courage and the wisdom,and the vision to raise a

definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man,

and then strive mightily toward that goal." ~Harold E. Stassen

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to

persist, but the ability to start over."

~F. Scott Fitzgerald

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." ~William Morrow

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small (minded) people always do that, but the really great make you feel

that you, too, can become great." ~Mark Twain

"The best portion of a good man's life are the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." ~William Wordsworth

"It is only through labor and prayerful effort, by grim energy

and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

~Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest reward for a person's work is not what you get from it, but what you become by it." ~Bob Wieland

"In life, if you put yourself in harmony with the natural way of things, you get a much better result than if you try to go against that." ~Francis Ford Coppola

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." "The difference between the right word, and almost-the-right-word, is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."

~Mark Twain

" All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win

in the world is for enough good men to do nothing."

~Edmund Burke

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness, and just

be happy." ~Guillaume Apollinaire

"If a man loses his reverence for any part of life...he will lose his reverence for all life."

~Albert Schweitzer

"...the validity of a human system is dependent on the logic of the rules governing the system...Principles, both moral & scientific, have correctness only insofar as they are justified in everyday experience" ~Albert Einstein

"The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,

but also the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."

~Helen Keller

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others." ~Sir Winston Churchill

"The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination."

~Mahatma Gandhi fT

"Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed." --- "VISION IS MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE."

Mainland Assembly of God', Church Marquee

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve." ~Albert Schweitzer

GOD. Cause & effect, photons,electrons and gravity, are forever the rulers in our lives, and in the universe.

The truth is always the truth, regardless of misunderstanding, ignorance, or disbelief. jJCn

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live."

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Detroit Speech; June 23rd,1963

"My fellow Americans... Pursuing peace, prosperity, and democracy are not new goals. They've been at the heart of an American foreign policy

that down through the years has sought to promote individual freedom and human progress in the world..." President Ronald Reagan, 9/29/1984

"To all those who inhabit our land from California to the New York Island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulfstream waters, let us provide new hope that prosperity shall not be purchased by poisoning the air, the rivers and the natural resources that are the greatest gift of this continent. We must insist that our children and our grandchildren shall inherit a land which they can truly call America the beautiful..." Senator Edward M. Kennedy, to DNC 8/12/1980.

"...The duty of holding a neutral conduct may be inferred, without anything more from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain

inviolate the relations of peace and amity toward other nations..." Pres' George Washington, 1796

"...But I think that Points of Light are all of these things and

yet still something more. It's what happens when ordinary people

claim the problems of their community as their own. And it's the

inspiration and awakening to the God-given light from within, lit

from within, and it's the promise of America."

President George H.W. Bush, January 14th,1993

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation

is not to utter words, BUT TO LIVE BY THEM." ~ John F. Kennedy

There are those things that bother you, and should not; and then, there are those things that do not bother you, but should. You know what they are. jJCn

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes-out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. And, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep-down

the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

~Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

THE SPEECH THAT PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY DID NOT DELIVER. November 22nd, 1963

"We in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, goodwill toward men." ~President John F. Kennedy

Successful people learn from their mistakes sooner, rather than later. Unsuccessful people

do not learn, even later, from their mistakes; all-too-often repeating the same ones. jJCn

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where

there is no path and leave a trail." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No man is poor who has had a Godly mother." "Courage is not absence of fear. Courage is going forward in the face of fear." ~Abraham Lincoln

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie --- deliberate, contrived and dishonest --- but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy fT

"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among the men the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing else that kills the ambitions of a man as criticisms from his superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a man incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise, but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise." ~Charles M. Schwab (You have just read his SECRET.)

DALE B. CARNEGIE has said that those words in the paragraph above, "ought to be cast in eternal bronze and hung in every home and school,every shop and office in the land; words that children ought to memorize;words that will all but transform your life and mine, if we could only live them."

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's

foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."

~Thomas Henry Huxley

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding

the other end fastened about his own neck." ~Frederick Douglass, crusader

If you are at the right place at the wrong time, you are NOT at the right place;

If you are at the right place at the right time, you are at the right place. jJCn

If you are at the wrong place at the wrong time, you are NOT at the wrong place.

If you are at the wrong place at the right time, you ARE at the wrong place.

"I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody."

~Dale B. Carnegie quoting Benjamin Franklin

"When you change the way you look at things; the things you look at change."

"Your imagination is yours alone." "A change of thought is a change of destiny." 'The Forever Wisdom'. Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Live each day as if it's your last; one day it will be!" "I shook-up the world!" "I shook-up the world!" Boxing Legend ~Muhammad Ali "If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough!" ~M. Ali fT

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do,

or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

~Stephen Grellet, American Quaker Missionary

"Find your own center. If you don't find your own center, you can't relate to anyone else." "The real Jesus is whoever you want Him to be." ~Robert Powell, looking for the real Jesus.

"The TRUE Measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." ~Samuel Johnson, the 18th Century Man of Letters fT