Inspirations 5

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"It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better."

--Fredrich August von Hayek

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 (1688-1744) English Poet

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

-- Vauvenargues

Memory is a child walking along the seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.

-Pierce Harris

"If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on."

---Myrtle Reed

"We do not create every circumstance we experience, but we do create our experience of every circumstance we are in. We all have a response-ability."

--Mary Manin Morrissey

""Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk."

--Leo Buscaglia

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first Step."

--Martin Luther King

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

-- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) American Writer

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

-- Chinese proverb

Man has never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

-- Bernard Williams (1929-) English Philosopher

The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall.

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

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

– Longfellow

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

- Will Henry

Our only security is our ability to change.

- John Lilly

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.

-- Arland Gilbert

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.

- John Jay Chapman

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

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

- James Oppenheim

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

-- Margaret Drabble (1939-) English Novelist