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Thursday, June 17, 2004

Welcome to “famous” quotes!

This is yet another addition to the Leonwork website, dedicated to great statements of the past! The funny are mixed in with the serious, but there are all enjoyable in one way or another. If you have any you would like to submit, please email me about it. We hope you enjoy them!

  • "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." Wendell Johnson
  • "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." Steve Prefantaine
  • "Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to ablish misery from their future and crimes from society." Benjamin Franklin
  • "The great masses of people...will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." Adolf Hitler
  • "Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once." William Shakespeare
  • "I always advise people never to give advice." P. G. Wodehouse
  • "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle
  • "Merely because we are busy, or even skilled, doing something does not necessarily mean that we are getting anything accomplished. The question must always be asked: Is it worth doing? Does it get the job done?"Robert Coleman
  • "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain
  • "When one obeys and teaches all that Jesus commanded, he bears fruit. This includes not only a virtuous life, but also making disciples of others because that is what they observed Jesus doing. As one bears fruit in his life, his love for God increases because he is filled with gratitude for the way God has changed his life and made him a fruit bearing disciple. His increased love makes him obey God’s commandments more zealously which results in him bearing more fruit." Milton Jones in his book "Discipling: The multiplying ministry"
  • "The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing." R. D. Hitchcock
  • ""We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle
  • "Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda
  • " Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." Mark Twain
  • "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
  • "A friend is one before whom I may think aloud." Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." Albert Einstein
  • "You must be the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
  • ""Who's the more foolish . . . the fool or the fool who follows him?" Obi-Wan Kenobi
  • "A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." Benjamin Franklin
  • "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." Dale Carnegie
  • "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain
  • "Blow, blow, thou winter wind. Thou are not so unkind, as man's ingratitude."
    William Shakespeare
  • "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." Aristotle
  • "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." Mahatma Gandhi
  • "If you're being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a tunnel, then on to a little seesaw, then jump through a hoop of fire. They're trained for that!" Milton Jones
  • "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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