Batch 23

The heights by great men, reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But, they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. – Duguet

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams

Always remember: Joy is not merely incidental to your spiritual quest. It is vital. - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. - C.A. Beard

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. - Katherine Paterson

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. - Jean de la Fontaine

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval. - Minot Simons

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. - Gail Godwin

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. - Tyron Edwards

Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. - Tim McCarver

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. - Romain Gary

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities. - John Richelsen

Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world in the eye. - Helen Keller

It isn't hard to be good from time to time. What's tough is being good every day. - Willie Mays

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. - Stewart L. Udall

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - A.W. Pinero

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W. Gardner

We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today. - Sydney Smith

Don't cross the stream to look for water. - Swedish Proverb

Worrying about something that may never happen is like paying interest on money you may never borrow. - Unknown

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains. - Richard Nelson

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir

It is vital that people "count their blessings" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. - Abraham Maslow

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. It merely moves from their faces to their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. - Vietnamese saying

Every time I think I'm getting old, something else happens. - Lillian Carter

The most difficult thing I have ever had to do is follow the guidance I prayed for. - Albert Schweitzer

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible. - Dr. Frank Richards

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. - Oprah Winfrey

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. - Thornton Wilder

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page. - Saint Augustine

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. - Charles Dickens

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Anonymous

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. - Jean Cocteau

I had rather do and not promise than promise and not do. - Arthur Warwick

Talk happiness; talk faith; talk health. Say you are well, and all is well with you, and God shall hear your words and make them true. - Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby. - Ruth E. Renkel

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature. - Sydney Smith

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others. - Thomas a Kempis

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. - Aesop

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Alexander Pope

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. – Socrates

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life. - Baruch Spinoza

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out--it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert Service

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard

He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made. - Henry B. Wilson

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. – Aesop

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia. - Alexis Carrel

Patience is also a form of action. - Auguste Rodin

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. – Longfellow

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau

It is a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - Somerset Maugham

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory. - F.W. Faber

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." - Ann Landers

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great is the road I climb, but the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. - Sextus Propertius

Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God. - Bob Moawad

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. - W. Beran Wolfe

Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger. – Anonymous

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. - Thomas Jefferson

A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live. - Lao-Tzu

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. – Epictetus

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it. - Louis Pasteur

When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your heart. - Chinese Proverb

"But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!" - Robert Browning

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear. - Glenn Clark

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. - Agatha Christie

Angels may not dress the part,
With robes and wings that soar,
Often angels come as friends
Knocking at your door.
- Unknown

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds. – Buddha

He who thinks most of heaven will do most for earth. – Anonymous

If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day—go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month—get married.
If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime—help others.
- Chinese Proverb

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. - Elbert Hubbard

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self. – Einstein

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. - John Milton

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement. - Thomas N. Carruther

One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. - Sigmund Freud

Whenever you see darkness, there is extraordinary opportunity for the light to burn brighter. – Bono

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a fine spirit of hope of achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small. - Irene Kassorla

My mind is a garden. My thoughts are the seeds. My harvest will be either flower or weeds. - Mel Weldon

If you are going through hell...keep going. - Winston Churchill

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. - Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is having the courage to take down the walls that we think are there to protect us. - Suztes40

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. - Elie Wiesel

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far. – Euripides

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. - Leo C. Rosten

Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

The virtue of angels is that they cannot deteriorate; their flaw is that they cannot improve. Humanity's flaw is that we can deteriorate; but our virtue is that we can improve. - Hasidic saying

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work. - Mother Teresa

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

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. – Horace

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, if you are not willing to move your feet. – Anonymous

[Some people] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. - A.H. Maslow

*Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. - Nikola Tesla

What I am doing today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it. – Unknown

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. - Miguel de Cervantes

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask. - Billy Graham

Service is the rent you pay for room on this planet. - Shirley Chisholm

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. - Robert Brault

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. - Etty Hillesum

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories. - Rebecca Falls

Will and I could hardly wait for the morning to come to get at something that interested us. That's happiness. - Orville Wright

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. (From her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway.) - Elizabeth Gilbert

Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they'll ignore you. - Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart. - Mencius (371-291 B.C.)

Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. - Brendan Francis

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into
action. - Arnold Toynbee

The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention. - Aldous Huxley

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. - John McCain

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. - Jean de la Bruyere

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy. You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working. - Emmet Fox

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost part of your life. - Michael Leboeuf

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. - Mother Teresa

You can find on the outside only what you possess on the inside. - Adolfo Montiel Ballesteros

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails - Pioneer Girls Leaders' Handbook

There is much satisfaction in work well done, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands. - Victor Robinsoll

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. - Corita Kent

Many people believe that support is something that you give to someone you feel sorry for or that it means propping up someone who would fail unless you were there to give him a boost. But that's not the way I see it. Support is the boost you can give someone who can help himself but who needs a partner to open a window or push aside a roadblock. - Dave Thomas

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. - Albert Schweitzer

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. - C.S. Lewis

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – anonymous

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. - Erich Fromm

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise--then you will discover the fullness of your life. - Brother David Steindl-Rast

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. – Anonymous

One of God's arrangements is that after winter there should come beautiful spring days. It happens every year and it happens in every life. - Father Joseph

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity. - Christopher Morley

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. - E. Merrill Root

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. - Helen Keller

Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become. - Bishop Westcott

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail." - Jim Collins

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you. - Dame Flora Robson

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

Getting to know someone is not a task--it’s an art. - Pierce LeBlanc

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. - Thomas Fuller

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson

One must care about a world one will never see. - Bertrand Russell

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

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. - Calvin Coolidge

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. – Buddha

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. - Thomas Robert Gaines

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. - St. Francis of Assisi

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful - annette funicello

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. - Norman Cousins

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Lane Allen

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far,
Yet God will bring him where the blessed are. -Henry Van Dyke

Love has the innate ability to look past the human and see the godly. - Colette Burnham

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. – Epictetus

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. – Anonymous

You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop. - Eva Jessye

We can never live in the past as if it were our true home…. And it is a good thing that God draws this veil over the past even without our asking. In so doing, He allows us to live today for tomorrow with just the few memories we need of what was. - Karl Barth

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. – Buddha

The only way to pass any test is to take the test. – Anonymous

"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief
But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound." - Kahlil Gibran

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi

"One never loves enough." - Aldous Huxley

"There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts." - Albert Schweitzer

"Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet." -Thomas Crum

"One must have chaos in oneself in order to give birth to a dancing star." – Nietzsche

One human being, one village, one city, or even one country can no longer live entirely on its own. Competitiveness - the desire to be the first, the best, the foremost, and only one - has simply become outdated as a "value." This desire may have been useful in the past. The concept of evolution describes a process from dependence toward independence, ultimately resulting in interdependence. – Frank Petter

A prudent man will think more important what fate has conceded to him, than what it has denied. - Baltasar Gracian

To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. - Grenville Kleiser (1868-1953)

All you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within, and you will surely find it. - Eileen Caddy

The aim of Life is to Live, and to Live means to be Aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely, Aware. - Henry James

I have accepted fear as part of life--specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back. - Erica Jong

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. - Babe Ruth

...the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last. - Charles Dickens

I know God promises not to give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. - Emilie Cady

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. - Helen Keller

The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have. - Leonard Nimoy

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. - Elizabeth Foley

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. - Aldous Huxley

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Friedrich Engels

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. - Herodotus (485 - 425BC) Greek Historian

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. - Henri Matisse

If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of someone else. - Judy Garland

The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world,
himself a light. - Felix Adler

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"But try," you urge, "the trying shall suffice; The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!" - Robert Browning

So-called aging is not the deterioration of life, but the deterioration of our faith, our enthusiasm, our will to progress. - Connie Fillmore

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. - Arabic Proverb

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. - Albert Schweitzer

You are my friend when you can guard my failure, challenge my thought and celebrate my success. – Unknown

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. - Malcolm Forbes

Your three best doctors are faith, time, and patience. - From a fortune cookie

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

I am too blessed to be stressed! – Anonymous

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face...I say to myself, I’ve lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along. - Eleanor Roosevelt