“Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands; but, like the seafaring man, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you will reach your destiny.” – Charles Schurz

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“I would be a friend to the friendless and find joy in ministering to the needs of the poor. I would visit the sick and afflicted and inspire in them a desire for faith to be healed. I would teach the truth to the understanding and blessing of all mankind. I would seek out the erring one and try to win him back to a righteous and a happy life. I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right. I would live with the masses and help to solve their problems that their earth life may be happy. I would avoid the publicity of high positions and discourage the flattery of thoughtless friends. I would not knowingly wound the feelings of any, not even one who may have wronged me, but would seek to do him good and make him my friend. I would overcome the tendency to selfishness and jealousy and rejoice in the successes of all the children of my Heavenly Father. I would not be an enemy to any living soul.” – George Albert Smith

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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower were I thought a flower would grow.” – Abraham Lincoln

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“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.” – John Burroughs

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“I love life! The potential for good far outweighs the potential for bad. And I have faith in people.” – David O McKay

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“I have a kind of contempt for intelligence all by itself. Coupled with energy and willingness, it’ll go. Alone, it winds up riding the rails.” – John Hersey

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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.” – Bill Cosby

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“I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things.” – Benjamin Franklin

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“I can see…in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world.” – Hellen Keller

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“I am a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it-Stephen Leacock

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“Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.” – Confucius

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“He who laughs, lasts.” – Mary Pettibone Poole

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“He who has a thing to sell and goes and whispers in a well, is not so apt to get the dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers.” –

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“Hatred is blind as well as love.” – Thomas Fuller

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“Happiness is the butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and softly sits on your shoulder.” – Viktor Frankl

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“Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good, as opportunity offers are sowing seeds all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.” – Unknown

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“Happiness is not something to be found somewhere, it is a state of mind.” – Charles Steves

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“Happiness is easy. It is letting go of unhappiness that is hard.” – Hugh Prather

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“Had we ourselves no faults, we should find less pleasure discovering them in others.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.” – Andre Maurois

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“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.” – T W Higginson

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“God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. we are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.” – Rev Billy Graham

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“God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.” – J G Holland

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“God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation.” – Allen Stockdale

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“Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.” – Mark Twain

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“Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.” – Admiral Richard Bird

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“Facts, as such, never settled anything. They are working tools only. It is the implications that can be drawn from the facts that count, and to evaluate these requires wisdom and judgment that are unrelated to the computer approach to life.” – Clarence B Randall

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“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

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“Existence will thereby become harder for him in every respect than it would be if he lived for himself. But at the same time it will be richer, more beautiful, and happier. It will become, instead of mere living, a real experience of Life.” – Albert Schweitzer

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“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” – Albert Schweitzer

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“Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.” – Frank A Clark

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“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices-just recognize them.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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“Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong, quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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“Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” – Samuel Butler

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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

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“Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage races fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.” – Thomas Carlyle

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“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Michael O’Brien

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“Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the Power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.” – Shearson/Lehman Bros.

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