NON MASONIC QUOTES
Below are some quotes for your reading pleasure.
Man's action are the picture book of his creeds. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to
form. -Ande Maurois
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from
doing something worth wile. -Wilfred T. Grenfell
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel
a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest
spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. -Robert Collyer
A secret between two is a secret of God; a secret between three is
everybodie's secret. -Author Unknown
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the days work well. The
traveler on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought
for the marrow. Live neither in the past nor the future, but let each day's work
absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. -William Osler
If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world, it will
come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of
divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living
creature. -Bruce Barton
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story
intellects with sky-lights. All fact collectors, who have no aim beyond their
facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason generalize, using the
labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize,
imagine, predict, their best illumination comes from above, through the
skylight. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your
hands, but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and,
following them, you will reach your destiny. -Carl Schurz
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a
dream. -Harry Kemp
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. -Paul Scherer
There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine
would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built
together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some
have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats
and is going places. And I am comforted. -Ralph W. Sockman
To fulfill the dreams of ones youth; that is the best that can happen to a
man. No worldly success can take the place of that. -Willa Cather
I thoroughly believe in a universal education for both men and women; but
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable
that a college course without the Bible. -William Lyon Phelps
The truth is like a balloon and a lie is like a pin, once you pierce the
balloon with the pin the balloon, like the truth, becomes worthless. -WRF
Character is what you are in the dark. -Dwight L. Moody
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast
horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with
the passion for a great adventure. -Alexis Carrel
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears,
however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau
All that is essential for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
-Edmund Burke
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as you
self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your
despair. -Samuel Ullman
The most beautiful thing that we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and science. He whom this emotion is a stranger, who
can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his
eyes are closed. -Albert Einstein
If you see something wrong and don't correct it, you have just set a new
standard. -Author Unknown
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of
democracy. Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have
to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is
the way things should be. -Joseph Canpbell
Beauty is God's handwriting. -Charles Kingley
I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but see nothing in
sea and sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to
sail in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling and mind than to be
content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night in
ignorance and insensibility. -Hellen Keller
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a mater of
rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; a matter of will, a quality of
imagination, a vigor of emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring of
life. -Author Unknown
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. -Paul Scherer
There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine
would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built
together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some
have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats
and is going places. And I am comforted. -Ralph W. Sockman
We ought to hear at least one little song every day, read a good poem, see
a first-rate painting, and if possible speak a few sensible words. -Johann
Wolfgang Von Goethe
Education lays hold of what is best in a person, but character lays hold
of what is worse. It takes hold of a failing and by very skillful manipulation
and training turns it into a perfection. -Fulton J. Sheen
Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which
guarantees all the others. -Winston Churchill
As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the
essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists. -William Salter
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad,
influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his
own can teach. -William Ellery Channing
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is
because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears,
however measured or far away. -Henry David Thoreau
The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep
it; he gives it away to us all. -David Swing
What you bring away form the Bible depends to some extent on what you
carry to it. -Oliver Windell Holmes
There are few who have courage enough to admit their faults or resolution
enough to mend them. -Author Unknown
The spiritual life of the world has burned during all these centuries with
the pure flame first kindled by the sublime mystic of the Galilean Hills. -John
Morley
The last part of success, is to pass your work on to those whom will do
better than you. -WRF
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely
action. -James Russell Lowell
Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No
one can have a true idea of right until he does it. -William R. Inge
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and
useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who
loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who
would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face.
-St. Francis of Assisi
Partnership is not a principle, but a relationship between persons who
share in a common enterprise, involving common risks, common privileges, and
common responsibilities. Everything depends on the reality of our partnership
with one another and of each of us with God. -George Craig Stewart
Shoes divide men into three classes. Some men wear their father's shoes.
They make no decisions of their own. Some are unthinkingly shod by the crowd.
The strong man is his own cobbler. He insists on making his own choices. He
walks in his own shoes. -S. D. Gordon
Every child comes with a message that God is not yet discouraged of man. -Rabindranath
Tagore
There is no right way to do wrong. -Author Unknown
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire
again every time a child is born. -George Bernard Shaw
Let then, our act every morning be to make the following resolve for the
day:
I shall not fear anyone on earth.
I shall fear only god.
I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
I shall conquer untruth by truth.
And in resisting untruth I shall put up with all suffering.
-Mahatma Ganmdhi
I accept life unconditionally. Life holds so much-so
much to be so happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition.
Happiness can be felt only if you don't set conditions. -Artur Rubinstein
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices. -William James
No one can be wrong with man and right with God. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
To know the job you must do it, to know the sport you must play it, to
know the person you must live their life. -WRF
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new
year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace
hour is where the battle is lost or won. -Maltbie D. Babcock
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and
keeps pecking away until he finishes the job that he starts. -Coleman Cox
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the
mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired. -Harry Emerson
Fosdick
You should remember that through another may have more money, beauty, and
brains than you, yet when it comes to the rare spiritual values such as charity,
self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone
to be the most beloved and honored of all people. -Archibald Rutledge
Death, is what happens to a person while he is making other plans. -Author
Unknown
Better to keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which
you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw
If it is to be, it's up to me. -Author Unknown
The tragedy of the world is that men have given first class loyalty to
second class causes and these causes have betrayed them. -Lynn Harold Hough
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are
those which never come. -Amy Lowell
What Jesus Christ would say to us if he should speak to us in audible
voice now would be something like this: Be a person. Be a real person. Stand on
your own feet. Do not be pushed about by passing fads. Live by an inward light.
Be true to an inward loyalty. If skepticism divides the church, vulgarity
discolors social living, the profit motive makes industry often cruel, and
nationalism blockades the way to peace, do not yes, yes the situation. Have a
conscience of your own and when in private life the clamor of public customs
grows very loud, do you grow quiet, quiet enough to hear the bear and catch the
rhythm of that inward drum. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
Babies are bits of star dust blown from the hand of God. Lucky the woman
who knows the pangs of birth, for she has held a star. -Larry Barretto
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert
Louis Stevenson
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail
under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for
the minority which is right will one day be the majority; Always be afraid to
stand with the majority which is wrong, for the majority which is wrong will one
day be the minority. -William Jennings Bryan
Take a smile form someone else and pass it on. -Author Unknown
God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and
full of kindly sympathies and affections. -Mary Howitt
To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy. -Thomas Merton
Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be strong men. Do not pray for tasks
equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of
your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall
wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace
of God. -Phillips Brooks
Not a party, not a sect, not a cult, it is a great order of men selected,
initiated, sworn, and trained to make reason and the will of God prevail. - J.
F. Newton
You are bound only by the chains (moral, spiritual, or lawful) that you
make yourself. -WRF
Even bad luck is good for something, in a wise man's hands. -Author
Unknown
Give the best you have received form the past to the best you may come to
know in the future. -Author Unknown
Accept life daily not as a cup to be drained but as a chalice to be filled
with whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good report. -Author
Unknown
Making a living is best undertaken as a part of the more important
business of making a life. -Author Unknown
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands-a
mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and
patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the
world. -Sidney Lovett
Temper gets you in trouble. Pride keeps you there. -Author Unknown
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he would
never be found out. -Thomas Macaulay
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then
he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see
anything but that. The bible is a thing to look through, to see that which is
beyond; but most people only look at it; and so they see only the dead letter.
-Phillips Brooks
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. -Thomas
A. Edison
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth
and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens
and say there is no God. -Abraham Lincoln
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Never but what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
Pride cost us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
We never repent of having eaten too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happen.
Take things away by there smooth handle.
When angry, count to ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
-Thomas Jefferson
The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault
with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. -John Ruskin
If you look for the good in people you will usually find it, but if you
look for the bad you will find that too. -WRF
The Fraternity has no hierarchy to plot its course; no pontiff to declare
its creed; no censer of books to check heresy. Anyone either within or without
the society, may think, believe, or write about it what he wills, and many have
taken advantage of that liberty. -H. W. Coil
I ought to reflect again and again, and yet again, that the beings that I
have to steer are just as inevitable in the scheme of evolution as I am myself;
have just as much right to be themselves as I am entitled to; and they all
deserve from me as much sympathy as I give to myself. -Arnold Bennett
He who can not forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
-George Herbert
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to
scorn human actions, but to understand them. -Barugh Spinoza
The hallmarks of true love are:
1. A genuine interest in the other person and all that he or she says and
does.
2. A community of tastes, ideas, and standards whit no serious clashes.
3. A great happiness in being with that one person than with any other.
4. A real unhappiness when the other person is absent.
5. A great feeling of comradeship.
6. A willingness to give and take.
7. A pride in the other person when comparisons are made.
-Newell W. Edson
How seldom we weight our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.
-Thomas A Kempis
The most consummately beautiful thing in the universe is the fashioned
life of a good person. -George Herbert Palmer
What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. -Louis
Nizer
All a child's life depends on the idea it has of its parents. Destroy that
and everything goes-morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else
is the essence of education. -E. M. Forster
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make
yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like
it or not. This is the first lesson to be learned. -Thomas Henry Huxley
Apparitions of a day, here for an hour and tomorrow gone, what is or puny
warfare against evil and ignorance compared with the warfare which this
venerable Order has been waging against then for ages, and will continue to wage
after we have fallen into dust. -J. F. Newton
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. -Thomas
Fuller
We often think of ourselves as living in a world which no longer has any
unexplored frontiers. We speak of pioneering as a thing of the past. But in
doing so we forget that the greatest adventure of all still challenges us-what
Mr. Justice Holmes called "the adventure of the human mind" Men may be hemmed in
geographically, but every generation stands on the frontiers if the mind. In the
world of ideas, there is always pioneering to be done, and it can be done by
anyone who will use the equipment with which he is endowed. The great ideas
belong to everyone. -Mortimer J. Adler
God never gave a man a thing to do concerning which it would be irreverent
to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. -George Macdonald
If you want to be heard, whisper. -Author Unknown
The capacity to believe is the most significant and fundamental human
faculty, and the most important thing about any man is what he believes in the
depth of his being. This is the thing that makes him what he is; the thing that
organizes him and feeds him; the thing that keeps him going in the face of
untold circumstances; the thing that gives him resistance and drive. Let
neutrality, confusion, indifference, or skepticism enter this inner place, and
the very springs of life will cease to flow. -Hugh Stevenson Tigner
If you have one true friend you have more than your share. -Thomas Fuller
To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula,
no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity
that sooner or later is presented to us all. Politics merely furnish one arena
which imposes special tests of courage. In whatever arena of life one may meet
the challenge of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows
his conscience-the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, ever the
esteem of his fellow men-each man must decide for himself the course he will
follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient-they can teach,
they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they can not supply
courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. -John F. Kennedy
Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a man
of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is
to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated
men are free men. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a
hammer, and you cannot, by force of arms, release the spirit or the soul of man.
-Confucius
The men whom I have seen succeed have always been cheerful and helpful,
who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took changes and
chances of this mortal life like men. -Charles Kingsley
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
-Author Unknown
Each day I learn more than I teach;
I learn that half knowledge of another's life leads to false judgement;
I learn that there is a surprise kinship in human nature;
I learn that it is a wise father who knows his own son;
I learn that what we expect we get;
I learn that there is more good than evil in this world;
That age is a question of spirit;
That youth is the best of life;
No matter how numerous its years;
I learn how much there is to learn. -Virginia Church
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. -Robert Frost
There is no defense against an evil which only the victim and the
perpetrator knows exist. -WRF
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face;
To greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains;
To approach my work with a clean mind;
To hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things,
the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working;
To meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart;
To be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours;
To approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep,
and the joy that comes from work well done-
This is how I desire to waste wisely my days. -Thomas Dekker
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
God works for man through man and seldom, if at all, in any other way. He
asks for our voices to speak His truth, for our hands to do His work here below,
sweet voices and clean hands to make liberty and love prevail over injustice and
hate. -J. F. Newton
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. -Elisabeth Barrett Browning
Man is incurably curious; his desire to know and to understand is the
mainspring of invention, discovery, civilization, progress, the driving force
which leads then to learn. -Author Unknown
The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange
for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give
guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand. -Henry C. Clausen
The secret of success is consistency of purpose. -Ben Jamin Disraeli
The person who limits his interests to the means of living without
consideration of the contents or meaning of his life, is defeating God's great
purpose when he brought into existence a creature with the intelligence and
godlike powers that are found in man. -Aurther H, Compton
It is no unworthy thing to wish to count for something and to do a great
work in the world; but we shall count in the final audit not by the measure of
our capacity, our business, our energy, but of the tenacity and vitality of our
faith and our love. -Richard Roberts
Man has always sought the Fountain of Youth, aned never found it. Those
who work with young people, however, known tha to stay young is nothing more
than thinking young, being part of what is going on now, and staying close to
the aspirations and enthusiasms of the young. -Henry C. Clausen
I didn't find my friends; the good God gave them to me. -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his
power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. -Joseph Addison
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations. -Elton
Trueblood
The recognition of one Grand Lodge by another is usually likened to
diplomatic relations between one nation and another friendly nation. In
Freemasonry, it means that one Grand Lodge is convinced of and admits the
regularity and legality of another Grand Lodge, and of course, in such event the
latter will recognize the former. -H. W. Coil
"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. -Amos Bronson Alcott
The purpose of the research lodge is to (1) Discover, (2) Disseminate, and
(3) Preserve Masonic knowledge. By delving into source records, and biography,
history, ritual and symbolism of Freemasonry is discovered. By printing the
results of the researchers and distributing copies on a wide basis, this
information is disseminated and preserved. Our research lodges are doing this.
-W. W. Denslow
Silences makes the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but
the never needing to say is what counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck
The George Washington Masonic National Memorial is a fitting tribute to so
great a man and Mason. Its message should be as prominent in our lives as the
Memorial itself in the skyline of the Federal City. Wherever we are, in
Alexandria, Virginia, the District of Columbia of should be in our moral
horizon, beckoning us to greater achievements as citizens and Masons. -Henry C.
Clausen
True love is like colorfast cloth, it never fades. -WRF
Good ritualistic work is a beauty to behold. But it can only be good if it
is rehearsed many times. A play, a movie, or television, has been rehearsed
many, many times. Hence, many of our brethren stay home to watch television.
-Author Unknown
A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When
I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at
the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when
the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple
walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance? -J.
Edgar Park
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. -Author Unknown
Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man
is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable
atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration. -J. F. Newton
There is no National Grand Lodge on the United States. From time to time
the suggestion is made that a Grand Lodge of the United states be formed but it
has never won wide support. But once a year there has been held for about fifty
years a Grand Masters' and a Grand Secretary's Conferences at which common
problems about Freemasonry are discussed and ideas are exchanged.
A smile costs nothing but gives much. It riches those who receive, without
making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it
sometimes last forever. No man is so rich or mighty that he can get along
without it, and no one can be so poor that he can be made rich by it. A smile
creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in business, and is the
countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the
discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is natures best antidote for trouble. Yet
it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of
no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give a
smile. Give them one of yours, as no one needs a smile so much as he who has
none to give. -These Times
The most successful people I know, make their jobs look like fun. -WRF
History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the
past that give priceless inspiration for the future. -Henry C. Clausen
Many complain of their memory, but few of their judgement. -Author Unknown
The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of
the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness,
and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed. -Joseph Fort
Newton
The first general rule for friendship is to be a friend, to be open,
natural, interested; the second rule is to take time for friendship. Friendship,
after all, is what life is finally about. Everything material and professional
exists in the end for persons. -Nels F. Ferre
Where the Hiramic Legend really came from no on knows. Hiram is mentioned
in the Bible and stories written over 700 years ago. -Louis L. Williams
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we can trust utterly.
-George Macdonald
If I was permitted to give every child one thing, I would give them an
indestructible sense of enthusiasm which would last them throughout their life,
to take away the need to fill the boredom with destructive behavior that
undoubtedly will lead them to their grave. -WRF
You haven't live a memorable day unless you have done something for
someone who will never be able to repay you. -Author Unknown
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself as you wish to be. -Thomas A. Kempis
The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life of
dominate characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what people
think. Like Columbus, it dares not only to assert a belief but live in the face
of contrary opinion. It does not adopt either its pace or its objectives to the
pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its
own books, it develops its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own
conscience. The heard may graze where it pleases, but he who lives the
adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. -Raymond B.
Fosdick
Neither speak well or ill of yourself, if well, men will not believe you,
if ill, they will believe a great deal more than you say. -Author Unknown
A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human
society. -Brother Frederick the Great
Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy. -Author Unknown
Wisdom is a good purchase though we pay dearly for it. -Author Unknown
Go your way in peace. Be of good courage. Hold fast to that which is good;
render no man evil for evil, Strengthen the faint hearted, support the weak,
help and cheer the sick, honor all men, love and serve the Lord; and may the
blessings of God be upon you and remain with you forever. -Author Unknown
Who is wise? He who learns from all men. Who is a hero? He who subdues his
passions. Who is rich? He who is happy with his portion in life. Who is honored?
He who honors others. -Ben Soma
Gratitude takes three forms; a feeling in the heart, an expression in
words, and giving in return. -Author Unknown
A true friend unbosoms freely, Advises justly, assists readily, adventures
boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend
unchangeably. -William Penn
An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse. -Author
Unknown
As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and
freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these goals. Those high
ideas have survived and flourished on this soil for two centuries since the
Founding Fathers planted them because we have sustained a general public
enlightenment through a free and universal public school system. -Henry C.
Clausen
If you are on a journey and the end gets further and further away, only
then you will realize that life is not the end but the journey itself. -Author
Unknown
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much
the greatest is the possession of friendship. -Epicurius
If a man does not take new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he
will soon find himself left alone. A man should keep his friendship in constant
repair. -Samuel Johnson
Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your
hands. But like the seafaring man in the desert of waters, you choose them as
your guides, and following them you will reach you destiny. Perhaps you could
get a clearer idea of our destiny if we took time out to examine our ideas, and
upgraded them if necessary. What things are most important to you? If you could
do anything you wanted to be, what would you be? If you could achieve a single
objective in life, what would it be? -Carl Schurz
Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to
you in greater measure. -Charles L. Allen
Life's trials may be hard to bear, but patience can out live them. -Author
Unknown
WE have an American right to say: "I reject the welfare way to the lazy
life and favor instead the work way to the good life. -Henry C. Clausen
So long as we love, we serve, so long as we are loved by others, I should
say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a
friend. -Robert Louis Stevenson
To believe that this world of today is really from God, in God, and unto
God, you must know that God gave us the capacity to think, learn, and build only
that of which he wishes us too. -WRF
There is no joy to be had from retirement except by some kind of
productive work. Otherwise, you degenerate into talking to everybody about your
pains and pills and income tax. Any oldster who keeps at even part time work has
something worthwhile talking about. He has zest for the morning paper and his
three meals a day. The point of all this is not to retire from work or you will
shrivel up into a nuisance to all mankind. -Brother Senator Dirksen
To lose faith in our fellow men is the unforgivable sin. -John Dewey
Promises may get friends, but performance keeps them. -Author Unknown
What is brotherhood? It is the wisdom of Lincoln and the warmth of Gandhi.
It is the humility of Jesus, the humbleness of Mohammed, and the humanitarianism
of Confucius. It is Catholic and Protestant and Jew living together in
peacefulness and harmony. It is Italian and Dane and Bulgarian and Pole working
side by side on the job and sitting shoulder to shoulder in the union hall
searching for ways to advance the common good. It is the Ten Commandments and
the Sermon on the Mount. It is the Bible, the Talmud, and the Koran. It is the
essence of all wisdom of all the ages distilled into a single word. But equally
is it the understanding of neighbors and friends who sorrow at your misfortunes
and rejoice at your triumph. You can not see brotherhood; neither can you hear
it nor taste it. But you can feel it a hundred times a day. It is the pat on the
back when things look gloomy. It is the smile of encouragement when the way
seems hard. It is the helping hand when the burden becomes unbearable. -Peter E.
Trezick
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble. -Carlyle
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable
things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the
more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
-Cicero
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. -Joseph
Fort Newton
Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the
heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.
-Henry C. Clausen
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out,
just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will
take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and then, with a breath of
kindness, blow the rest away. -George Elliot
It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth
of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by
its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the
order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to
the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest
documents of the order. -J. F. Newton
The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be
loss, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already
there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, us all our will to that end, and
courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling,
the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away.
-William James
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as young as
your faith, as old as your fear; as young as your hope; as old as your despair.
-Author Unknown
Questions to find an educated man are:
Has your education made you a friend of all good causes?
Has your education made you a brother to the weak?
Do you see anything to love in a little child?
Would a lost dog follow you in the street?
Do you enjoy being alone?
Do you believe in the dignity of labor?
Can you look into a mud puddle and see the blue sky?
Can you go into the night, look up into the sky, and see beyond the stars?
Is your life linked with the Infinite?
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man. -Author
Unknown
There are no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the
heart. -Author Unknown
I would say there are three steps in Masonry. The first step is the
ritual; the second step would be the fellowship to be taken and enjoyed; and the
third step would be Masonic information for enlightenment or education. -William
K. Bailey
A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without trials.
-Author Unknown
A man has made at least a start on discovering the measuring of human life
when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
-Elton Trueblood
Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn. -Author Unknown
It is time to pass the cover to a generation born of the last half of this
century, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the
slow destruction of our Fraternity by those who will not give way and permit the
advancement of the Order.
With our only certain reward being a good conscience, with history the
final judge of our deeds, let us go forth together leading those whom have not
yet become Free Masons but are truly Masons at heart. -WRF
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without
forgetting. -Elizabith Bibesco
If you want to know where the future of Freemasonry will grown and prosper
it's simple in the heart, in your heart, in my heart, and in the hearts of those
who follow is. -Conrad Hahn
We ought to do good as simply and as naturally as a hours runs, or a bee
makes money, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the
grapes it has borne. -Marcus Aurelius
The real question, after all, is not the quantity of life, but its
quality, its depth, its purity, its fortitude, its fineness of spirit and
gesture of soul. -J. F. Newton
Our friends are the people whom we choose, usually friends are the same
sort of people as ourselves. My neighbor is the man whom I do not choose; he is
the man whom God gives me. He is the man who happens to live in the house next
to mine; he is the man who happens to sit opposite to me on the train; he is the
clerk who works at the desk next to mine. I have no right to say that he is no
concern of mine, because, if I am a Christian, I know that he is the man whom
God has given to me. -Stephen C. Neill
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but
whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess. -Martin Luther
It is the little difference in each of us that is the big difference.
-Author Unknown
May you have
Enough happiness to keep you sweet,
Enough trials to keep you strong,
Enough sorrow to keep you human,
Enough hope to keep you happy;
Enough failure to keep you humble,
Enough success to keep you eager,
Enough friends to give you comfort,
Enough wealth to meet your needs;
Enough enthusiasm to look forward,
Enough faith to banish depression,
Enough determination to make each
day better than yesterday.
Unless we are better husbands, fathers, sons, or brother, we aren't
following the teachings or living the obligations of Freemasonry. From the home,
life broadens into relationships of the community in which we live. We should
expect to find Masons in the forefront of every worthwhile community activity.
-Author Unknown
The better we know each other, the more we love each other. -Henry C.
Clausen
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would
be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you
cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is
spiritual expansion through thought for others. -Charles W. Eliot
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. -Laurence Housman
Convection is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. -Thomas
Carlyle
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven. -Victor Hugo
"I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do
the something that I can do." -Edward Everett Hale.
Submitted by Eric P. Soderberg
The most successful people I know, make their jobs look like fun. -WRF
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to
them. -Brother Edmund Burke
Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you
are, what you can do best, and where you are going. -Henry C. Clausen
As you grow older, more than ever you need to spend part of each day alone
in peace, quiet, and meditation; and in prayer that you may be shown how to
continue to live each day with courage, kindness, wisdom, laughter, interest and
understanding. You should take time to absorb and enjoy the lovely world in
which you live and come to know its inhabitants with affectionate amusement. You
would do well to budge your time as follows: one-half in work, taking care of
personal belongings, etc.; one-fourth in social pastimes with others, both young
and old; and one-forth as an interested, pleased observer of life. -William B.
Terhune
By the time you know what you want to do, you have probably already done
it. -WRF
Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one
can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship
with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he
thought out a faith by which to live. -Joseph Fort Newton
It is not what he has, or what he does, which directly expresses the worth
of a man, but what he is. -Henri Frederic Amiel
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker
will be sorry. -Brother Mark Twain
There are two freedoms, the false where one is free to do what he likes,
and true where one is free to do what he ought. -Charles Kingsley
In nothing do men more nearly approach God than in doing good to their
fellow men. -Cicero
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs, temptations,
and stresses. Men and women who live through long years get to know one
another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and
admiration on those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say
"This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of
love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he
might achieve what he deemed to be his task," then that live has been lived well
and there are no regrets. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Men have other wants as spiritual understanding, personal freedom, social
recognition, intellectual development. Men are never truly happy if only their
economic wants are satisfied. -Conrad Hahn
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the
attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. -Victor Hugo
You see future time when you look at a calendar, you see present time when
you look at a clock, you see past time when you look at pictures and you have
all the time in the world when you look at the ones you love. -WRF
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely to do the
right things, but enjoy them; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not
merely learn, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst
after justice. -John Ruskin
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready to toil, to
suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you
when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when
you return from your daily victory and defeat. -Robert Louis Stevenson
Memory tempers prosperity, consoles adversity, cautions youth and delights
old age. -Author Unknown
When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he
goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send
forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a
simple home and of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the
mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The
greatest force in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The
greatest forces in the world are babies. -E. T. Sullivan
The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to
it. -Gerald Groote
Faith is an act of rational choice which determines us to act as if
certain things were true and in the confident expectation that they will prove
to be true. -William R. Inge
I cannot help believing that the world will be a better and a happier
place when people are praised more and blamed less; when we utter in their
hearing the good we think and also gently intimate the criticisms we hope may be
of service. For the world grows smaller every day. It will be but a family
circle after a while. -Francis E. Willard
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and
then I acted on it in faith until I could prove its existence. -Arthur H.
Compton
Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What
is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start
liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about
yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you
have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If
ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." -Norman Vincent Peale
''It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The
credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by
the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short
again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends
himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring
greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory or defeat. ''--BRO.THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen.-Winston Churchill
Courage is resistance to fear; mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
-Mark Twain
The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge
of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life
depends. -William Hazlitt
Men acquire a particular quality by acting a particular way. . . . We
become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate
actions, brave by performing brave actions. -Aristotle
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature . . . is
less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. -Henri F. Amiel
Man is not logical, and his intellectual history is a record of mental
reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can find of his old beliefs
even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. -John Dewey
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come
back to us with a certain alienated majesty. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
We owe our children a set of good habits; for habit is to be their best
friend or their worst enemy, not only during childhood, but through all the
years. We shall therefore need to repeat every now and then nature's irrevocable
law: that back of every habit lies a series of acts; that ahead
of every act lies a habit; that habit is nine-tenths of conduct; that conduct is
but character in the making; and that character ends in destiny. -George Herbert
Betts
All rising to great place is by a winding stair. -Sir Francis Bacon
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By
persuading others we convince ourselves. -The Letters of Junius, #35
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to
it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other
soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other,
more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It
is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.-D. H. Lawrence
If you are wise,
You will mingle one thing with the other-
Not hoping without doubt;
Not doubting without hope.
-Seneca
For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws,
For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws;
Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys,
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
-Samuel Johnson: The Vanity Of Human Wishes
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you
want. -Bernard M. Baruch
Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral
universe within ."
"Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must
turn,each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground." --
translation by Dave Fredrick
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. —Bro. Dale
Carnegie
Indifference never wrote great works, nor thought out striking inventions,
nor reared the solemn architecture that awes the soul, nor breathed sublime
music, nor painted glorious pictures, nor undertook heroic philanthropies. All
these grandeurs are born of enthusiasm, and are done heartily. -Anonymous
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the
attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way
your mind looks at what happens.-John Homer Miller
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out
how poor men live, and second, for poor men to know how rich men work. -Edward
Atkinson
Idleness I just finished reading a delightful book, "The Importance of
Being Idle," by Stephen Robins, 2000 (Prion [UK], distrib. in US by Trafalgar
Square]. The author explained his aims as follows: ". . . to make clear the true
benefits of sitting around all day doing absolutely nothing whatsoever . .[and]
to expose the destructive drudgery of the daily grind." Although a firm believer
in the work ethic, I will confess to seeing some beneficial gems in this
unambitious approach to life after reading this book. "The really idle man gets
nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further." -Sir Henage
Ogilvie
"There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which
dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer
imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in
perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place."-Samuel Johnson
"Positively the best thing a man can have to do is nothing, and, next to
that, perhaps, good works."-Charles Lamb
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about
whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. -George Bernard Shaw
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and
disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their
proper figures. -Joseph Addison
Three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord,
find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein
Three characters can be found in a man about to perform a good deed: If he
says, "I shall do it soon," his character is poor. If he says, "I am ready to do
it now," his character is average quality. If he says, "I am doing it," his
character is praiseworthy. -Hasidic Proverb
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgives revenge and
dares forgive an injury.
-Edwin H. Chapin
You never know when you're making a memory. -Rickie Lee Jones
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the
nature of things.-Frithjof Schuon
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne
We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, And our
souls are deep with dreams.-Gypsy saying*
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
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the
attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way
your mind looks at what happens. - John Homer Miller
There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out
how poor men live, and second, for poor men to know how rich men work. -Edward
Atkinson
"The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get
much further."
-Sir Henage Ogilvie
There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which
dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer
imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in
perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.
-Samuel Johnson
Positively the best thing a man can have to do is nothing, and, next to
that, perhaps, good works.
-Charles Lamb
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about
whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. -George Bernard Shaw
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and
disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their
proper figures. -Joseph Addison
Three rules of work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord,
find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein
Three characters can be found in a man about to perform a good deed: If he
says, "I shall do it soon," his character is poor. If he says, "I am ready to do
it now," his character is average quality. If he says, "I am doing it," his
character is praiseworthy. -Hasidic Proverb
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgives revenge and
dares forgive an injury.
-Edwin H. Chapin
You never know when you're making a memory. -Rickie Lee Jones
That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the
nature of things.
-Frithjof Schuon
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne
We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder, And our
souls are deep with dreams.
-Gypsy saying
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
'We only have two things to worry about……
One that things will never get back to normal And two that they already have!'
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation
shall, at least in repute, be great.
-Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will have already
become clearer.
-Thomas Carlyle
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the
whole world.
-Immanuel Kant
Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given
time?" "How am I going to get there?" "What do I have to do to get myself from
where I am to where I want to be?" "What's the first, small step I can take to
get moving?" -George A. Ford
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy
to none.
-Benjamin Franklin
In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for four thousand
year in four thousand ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's
conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
-Francois M. A. Voltaire
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few
things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by
strength, but perseverance. -Samuel Johnson
Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of
the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. -Niccolo
Machiavelli
Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after
censure is as the sun after a shower. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What men and women need is encouragement . . . . Instead of always harping
on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of
bad habits. -Eleanor H. Porter
Recognize that neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for
you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.
It is what you live in. You can drift or you can swim, and it will carry you
along either way. -James Gleick
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape
unless you have a mold to pour it in. -Robert Collier
Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
-Dottie Walters
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will
bethere, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may
not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But
do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of
the situation. -Bernard Baruch
"Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected
in honor of a critic." — Bro. Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer
''Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably
requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both
new wants and the ability to satisfy them. '' Henry Steele Commager
As a man, casting off worn-out garments, taketh new ones, so the dweller
in the body, casting off worn-out bodies, entereth into others that are
new...For sure is the death of him that is born, and sure the birth of him that
is dead; therefore over the inevitable though shouldst not grieve.
-The Bhagavad Gita
"We strive to destroy the evil around us. Yet, we often forget that there
is no light without darkness, nor darkness without light. Perhaps a plant it the
best analogy. A plant realizes that too little light is deadly, but it also
knows that too much light is equally deadly. It is the balance of the two that
makes the world."
-Lycorne
"The day we lose our need for dreams is the day the human race forfeits
its soul."
-John Chiam
The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all
come together to form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the
others.
-Silvetris
Grand Lodges have two duties. One is to promote and encourage positive
change and the other is not to allow innovation. Many of our members have
trouble understanding this concept……..Go Figure. Neil
"What distinguishes great from merely competent leaders is the ability not
just to tolerate but to seek out and encourage dissenting ideas from a diverse
group of people. Great leaders have always drawn on this talent to devise bold
solutions to daunting new challenges." -
Carol Hymowitz
Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.
He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
On the other hand, you have other fingers.
I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted
then used against you."
I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges?
Despite the cost of living have you noticed how it remains so popular?
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial cost and blamed
it on the cost of living.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something
right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, some
one would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's
population.
If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those
who got there first.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
will sit in a boat drinking beer all day.
Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
It recently was discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
"The secret of life isn't what happens to you, but what you do with what
happens to you." -
Brother Norman Vincent Peale
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every
preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or
you will learn nothing."- Thomas H. Huxley
''Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well
tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow
growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is
entitled to the appellation. '' -
Brother George Washington
"In times of change the learners shall inherit the earth, while the
learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer
exists." - Eric Hoffer
"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who
will not risk cannot win." --Bro. John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War naval hero
"If you want your work to be Square, don't cut corners." -Unknown
"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are
right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it."-Harry
Browne
"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go
unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished." -- Orison Swett Marden
"You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of
caring...Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice." -- Leo
Buscaglia
"The great successful men of the world have used their imagination...they
think ahead and create their mental picture in all its details, filling in here,
adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily
building-steadily buildings." -- Robert Collier
"Each time you are honest and conduct yourself with honesty, a success force
will drive you toward greater success. Each time you lie, even with a little
white lie, there are strong forces pushing you toward failure." -- Joseph
Sugarman
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for
the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." -- George
Bernard Shaw)
"Success doesn't come to you...you go to it." -- Marva Collins
"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great
opportunity is where you are." -- John Burroughs
"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity." -- Helen
Schucman
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes
available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly
what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." --
Alexander Graham Bell
"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your
environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of other; it is in
yourself alone." -- Orison Swett Marden
"I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any
kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even
nature." -- John D. Rockefeller
"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes
of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that
everywhere produces and restores life." -- Lydia Maria Child
"Life in abundance comes only through great love." -- Elbert Hubbard
"Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves.
Its eternal goal is life." -- Smiley Blanton
"What force is more potent than love." -- Igor Stravinsky
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes." -- Henry J. Kaiser
"Opportunities? They are all around us...there is power lying latent
everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it." -- Orison Swett Marden
"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new
talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity
that was at hand." -- Bruce Barton
"We don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we
need is to use what we have." -- Basil S. Walsh
"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not
something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved." --William
Jennings Bryan
"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door
if you ardently wish to enter." --B.C. Forbes
"Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally
dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who
recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity." -- Joseph Sugarman
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." -- Albert Einstein
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -- Francois Bacon
"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the
job." -- George Crane
"Opportunity...often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary
defeat." -- Napoleon Hill
"The price of success is perseverance. The price of failure comes cheaper."
-- Anonymous
"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it." -- Horace
"I contend that dishonesty will create a failure force that often manifests
itself in other ways - ways not apparent to the outside observer." -- Joseph
Sugarman
“Man's action are the picture book of his creeds”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a
busy man has no time to form” -Ande Maurois
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from
the praise of men, but from doing something worth wile. -Wilfred T. Grenfell
"God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some
time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.
Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our
best." -Robert Collyer
"A secret between two is a secret of God; a secret
between three is everybodie's secret." -Author Unknown
"Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the
days work well. The traveler on the road to success live in the present,
heedless of taking thought for the marrow. Live neither in the past nor the
future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your
widest ambition." -William Osler
"If you have anything really valuable to
contribute to the world, it will come through the expression of your own
personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you
different from every other living creature." -Bruce Barton
"There are one-story intellects, two-story
intellects, and three-story intellects with sky-lights. All fact collectors, who
have no aim beyond their facts, are one-story men. Two-story men compare, reason
generalize, using the labors of the fact collectors as well as their own.
Three-story men idealize, imagine, predict, their best illumination comes from
above, through the skylight." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in
touching them with your hands, but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as
your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny." -Carl Schurz
"The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but
he who is without a dream." -Harry Kemp
"The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to
divide it." -Paul Scherer
"There are parts of a ship which taken by
themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when
the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my
life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built
together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am
comforted." -Ralph W. Sockman
"To fulfill the dreams of ones youth; that is the
best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that."
-Willa Cather
"I thoroughly believe in a universal education for
both men and women; but I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college
course is more valuable that a college course without the Bible." -William Lyon
Phelps
"The truth is like a balloon and a lie is like a
pin, once you pierce the balloon with the pin the balloon, like the truth,
becomes worthless." -WRF
"Character is what you are in the dark." -Dwight
L. Moody
"Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when
contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for
one burning with the passion for a great adventure." -Alexis Carrel
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