December 2007: “Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
November 2007: “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” (Mother Theresa)
October 2007: “Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.” (Saint Augustine)
September 2007: “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” (George Bernard Shaw)
August 2007: “Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” (Lou Holtz)
July 2007: “The ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.” (Job 34:3)
June 2007: “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.” (Michael Althsuler)
May 2007: “Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” (Howard Aiken)
April 2007: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” (Mark Twain)
March 2007: “If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.” (Zig Ziglar)
February 2007: “True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” (Charles Caleb Colton)
January 2007: “For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: ‘It might have been’". (John Greenleaf)
December 2006: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” (Mark Twain)
November 2006: "The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
October 2006: “Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.” (Frederick Buechner)
September 2006: “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” (Theodore Roosevelt)
August 2006: “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” (Marilyn vos Savant)
July 2006: "Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
June 2006: "We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
May 2006: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." (Galileo Galilei)
April 2006: “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.” (Blaise Pascal)
March 2006: "A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." (Saint Augustine)
February 2006: “The deed shapes the heart more than the heart shapes the deed.” (Talmudic saying)
January 2006: "Gratitude is a debt, 'tis true, but it differs from all other debts; for though it ought always to be paid, yet it is never to be demanded." Anonymous (Early 18th century; writer of Characters and Observations)
December 2005: "Most people see the world not as it is but as they are." (from the movie, "Anna and the King")
November 2005: “To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.” (Amos Bronson Alcott)
October 2005: “A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.” (H. L. Mencken)
September 2005: “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” (Frederick Douglass)
August 2005: “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” (C. S. Lewis)
July 2005: “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” (Hannah Arendt)
June 2005: “This is the true story in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.” George Bernard Shaw
May 2005: "Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything." (Muhammad Ali)
April 2005: "No man was ever wise by chance." (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
March 2005: "Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." (Doug Larson)
February 2005: “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. “ (Henry Ward Beecher)
January 2005: "Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.” (Josh Billings)
December 2004: “In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.” (Lord Chesterfield)
November 2004: “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.“ (Marcus Aurelius)
October 2004: "A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew." (Herb Caen)
September 2004: “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.” (Lord Acton)
August 2004: “A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.” (Herb Caen)
July 2004: “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” (Saint Augustine)
June 2004: "Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it." (Lord Acton)
May 2004: “To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.” (Akhenaton)
April 2004: “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” (Cicero)
March 2004: “A society based on the letter of the law and never reaching any higher, fails to take advantage of the full range of human possibilities. The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes men’s noblest impulses…. After a certain level of the problem has been reached, legalistic thinking induces paralysis; it prevents one from seeing the scale and the meaning of events.” (Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Russian writer, Soviet Union dissident)
February 2004: "Lavishness is not generosity." (Thomas Fuller, 1608-1661; British clergyman, scholar, author)
January 2004: “Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.” Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss philosopher, poet, critic1821-1881)
December 2003: "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." (G. K. Chesterton)
November 2003: "Character is higher than intellect." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
October 2003: "Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds." Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911; American writer)
September 2003: “Civilization
is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of
neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is
alone the basis of civilization.” -- Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881; Swiss
philosopher, poet, critic)
August 2003: "Comfort yourself with the thought that suffering lays bare the real nature of things that it is the price to be paid for a deeper more truthful insight into life." Eugenia Ginzburg
May 2003: "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less." Vaclav Havel
April 2003: "Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." George Bernard Shaw
March 2003: "Quotations are true levelers. They give to all who faithfully use them the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of the human race." William Ellery Channing
February 2003: "It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them—in which case, if you don’t watch out, they cease to be adversaries.” Flannery O’Connor
January 2003: "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." James Baldwin
December 2002: "Never
doubt in the dark what God has shown you in the light." (V. Raymond
Edman)
November 2002: "Quotations are true levelers. They give to all who faithfully use them the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of the human race." (William Ellery Channing)
October 2002: “Integrity is a choice, not a virtue.” (Anonymous)
September 2002: “Good judgment comes from experience, and most experience comes from bad judgment.” (Mark Twain)
August 2002: "Destiny is not a matter of chance...It's a matter of choice!" (Anonymous)
July 2002: "We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story--the one according to Luke, not Dickens--is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers." (William Willimon)
February 2002: "You can follow all the rules and still be unethical." (Russell Gough)
January 2002: "Lavishness is not
generosity." Thomas Fuller (1608-1661; British clergyman, scholar, author)
December 2001: "Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." (Hans Margolius)
November 2001: "Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth." (Unknown)
October 2001: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." (Robert Frost)
September 2001: "Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself." (John Harold)
August 2001: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the
night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow
which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." (Crowfoot)
July 2001: “He who is swift to believe is swift to forget.” (Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)
June 2001: “When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” (Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist)
May 2001: "Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them." (T. S. Eliot)
April 2001: "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless."
(Mother Teresa)
March 2001: "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not
bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a
man."
(Mark Twain)
February 2001: "It may be that those who do most, dream most."
(Stephen Leacock)
January 2001: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
men to do nothing.”
(Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and philosopher)
December 2000: “During my 87
years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions.
But none of them has done away with the need for character in the
individual or the ability to think.”
(Bernard M. Baruch, American businessman and statesman).
November 2000: "The only people I know who are happy
are those I don’t know very
well.”
(Rabbi Joseph Telushkin’s mother)
October 2000: "A man can gain anything in solitude...except
character.”
(Stendhal, French philosopher)
September 2000:
"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it
is willing to see less."
(Rabbi
Julins Gordon)
August 2000: “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say.
I just watch what they do.”
(Anonymous)
July 2000: “Show me a person who cannot do little
things, and I’ll show you a person who cannot be trusted to do the big
things.”
(Anonymous)
June 2000: "What makes us
discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the
happiness of others."
(Anonymous)
May 2000: "There is no pillow
so soft as a clear conscience."
Author unknown (but appreciated!)
April 2000: "There is nothing
so uncommon as common sense."
(Mark Twain)
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