"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous."- Margaret Fontey (1919 - 1991) English ballerina
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"The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous."- Margaret Fontey (1919 - 1991) English ballerina
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"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875) English Novelist and Clergyman
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill
"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."- Shirley MacLaine (B - 1934) American film, television and theater actress
"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
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"No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work."- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997) Albanian Missionary
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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?"- Katharine Graham (1917 - 2001) American, Chairman of Washington Post
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. - Henry David Thoreau
"If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well."- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968) American Civil Rights Leader
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"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."- Alistair Cooke (1908 - 2004) British Journalist, Television Host
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"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own."- Johann von Goethe (1749 - 1832) German Poet and Dramatist
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"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) American Industrialist
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968) American Writer
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."- Donald A. Adams (B - 1925) former president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania
"Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002) pen name created by American columnist Eppie Lederer
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"There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best."- Senator Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968) American politician from Massachusetts
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"Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America."- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) 26th President of the United States
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"The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them."- Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) British Theologian and Classicist
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens. - Virgil Thomson
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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. - Arthur Ashe
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"So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America."- Thomas Wolfe (1900 - 1938) American novelist
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"Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline."- William L. Shirer (1904 - 1993) American Journalist and Historian