Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968) “Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead and the unborn could do it no better.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. - “Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. - “The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917 - 1963)  “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - “All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - “Our task now is not to fix the blame for the past, but fix the course for the future.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy - “Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

Robert Francis Kennedy (1925 - 1968)  “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

Albert Einstein - “The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”

Albert Einstein - “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

Albert Einstein - “Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

Benjamin Franklin  (1706 - 1790)  “The doors of wisdom are never shut.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.”

Benjamin Franklin - “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.”

Benjamin Franklin - “If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.”

Benjamin Franklin - “There are no gains without pains.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.”

Benjamin Franklin - “A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

Benjamin Franklin - “A place for everything, everything in its place.”

Benjamin Franklin - “God helps those who help themselves.”

Benjamin Franklin - “He that won't be counseled can't be helped.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Energy and persistence conquer all things

Benjamin Franklin - “Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”

Benjamin Franklin - “Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.”

Benjamin Franklin - “To be humble to Superiors is Duty, to Equals Courtesy, to Inferiors Nobleness.”

Sophocles (c. 496-406 B.C.)  “The truth is always the strongest argument.”

Sophocles - “There is no success without hardship.”

Sophocles - “Success is the reward of toil.”

Plato (429–347 B.C.E.) “When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.”

Plato - “A philosopher is one who desires to discern the truth.”

Plato - “Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, And philosophy begins in wonder.”

Plato - “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”

Plato - “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804 )  “All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."

Immanuel Kant - “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

Immanuel Kant - “The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.”

Immanuel Kant - “Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.”

Buckminster Fuller - (1895-1983) The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Alexander III 'the Great' - (356 B.C. - 323 B.C) “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

Insanity holds some truths....

Adolf Hitler - If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler - It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

Adolf Hilter - Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) No pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
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Matthew 26:11  Jesus (4-6 BC - 30 A.D. )"The poor you will always have with you," but you will not always have me.

Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) If you think you can, you are right, if you think you can't you are rigft.

SO WHAT YOU THINK MATTERS!

George Washington (1732 - 1799) “Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

George Washington - “Undertake not what you can not perform, but be careful to keep your promises.”  

George Washington - “Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire,—conscience.”

 George Washington - “Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.”

George Washington - “Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”

George Washington - “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.”

George Washington - “Let your heart feel for the affliction and distress of everyone.”

Abraham Lincoln(1809 –1865) “You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” Abraham Lincoln - “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

Abraham Lincoln - “I will study and prepare and perhaps my chance will come.”

Abraham Lincoln - “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.”

Abraham Lincoln - “We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

Abraham Lincoln - “... peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for ...”

Abraham Lincoln - “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

Abraham Lincoln - “Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Abraham Lincoln - “People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln - “When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, 'I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.'”

Abraham Lincoln - “The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.”

Abraham Lincoln - “As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from — so must it be with a government.”

Abraham Lincoln - “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”

Abraham Lincoln - “Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.”

Abraham Lincoln - “What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?”

Abraham Lincoln - “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”

Abraham Lincoln - “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

Abraham Lincoln - “That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln - “To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.”

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890–1969) “Plans are nothing, planning is everything.”

Dwight David Eisenhower - “You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership.”

 Dwight David Eisenhower - “There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there.

Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911 2004) “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”

Ronald Wilson Reagan - “There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.”

Ronald Wilson Reagan - “How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

Ronald Wilson Reagan - “Trust, but verify.”