Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Quotes To Live By

Quotes To Live By:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." – Aristotle

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.'' - William James

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees." - William Shakespeare

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol

"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation." - Cicero

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment." - A.A. Milne

"Before you can do something you must first be something." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." - William Arthur Ward

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." - Benjamin Franklin

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Always be a little kinder than necessary." - James M. Barrie