Words of Wisdom

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Robert Kennedy	Maryanne Williamson	Ralph Nader	Maya Angelou
Marian Wright Edelman	Bill Gates	Oprah Winfrey	Mother Teresa
Franz Kafka	Muhammad Ali	John F. Kennedy	Mary Kay Ash
Harriet Tubman	George Burns	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Henry Ford
Dolly Parton	Bill Cosby	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Sachel Page

MAYA ANGELOU Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

MARY KAY ASH If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

GEORGE BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

BILL COSBY In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

BILL GATES In Bill Gates' book, "Business @ The Speed of Thought," he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college. He argues that our feel good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the real world. RULE 1 Life is not fair; get used to it. RULE 2 The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. RULE 3 You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. RULE 4 If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. RULE 5 Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. RULE 6 If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. RULE 7 Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room. RULE 8 Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. RULE 9 Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. RULE 10 Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. RULE 11 Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

FRANZ KAFKA By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

JOHN F. KENNEDY Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY 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?

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

RALPH NADER Your best teacher is your last mistake.

SATCHEL PAGE Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

DOLLY PARTON The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

MOTHER TERESA If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

HARRIET TUBMAN Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

MARYANNE WILLIAMSON Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.

OPRAH WINFREY I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.