Favorite Quotations - “Brevity is the soul of wit.” ~ Shakespeare
A few favorite quotes
"I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker."
~ Helen Keller
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence acts too. All manner of unforeseen circumstances and meetings and material assistance flock to the decision. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
~Johann Von Goethe / Scottish Himalayan Expedition
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."
~The LORD, Author of the Bible
in Philippians 4:8 KJV
"I am only one, but I am one, and I cannot do everything, but I can do something; what I can do, I will do, what I will do, I must do because I AM ONE."
~Helen Keller
“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances…”
~ Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them."
~ Albert Einstein
"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."
- John Muir, In Nature
"By words the mind is excited and the spirit elated."
~Aristophanes
"Words are things, and a small drop of ink falling, like dew, upon a thought produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions think."
~ Lord Byron
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing about.“
~ Benjamin Franklin
“The beauty of writing... and life... is working with what you have, through revision and practice, polishing as you go.”
~Ernest Hemingway
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