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Quotations from the Wayside
Every day’s a New Year’s Day to do with as we will.
ANONYMOUS
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep running.
ANONYMOUS
Need a helping hand? Look at the end of your arm.
APPALACHIAN FOLK SAYING
It’s up to you to whittle what you can with what you’ve got.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
It is the multitude of little actions which makes the great ones.
J. BALDWIN BROWN
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
CONFUCIUS
To build high—dig deep.
CROSS STREET CHAPEL, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of
God.
MARY DALY
Let us listen to our own prayers. It is we who will make them real.
DENG MING DAO
Circumstances may be beyond the control of man. But his conduct is in his
own power.
DISRAELI
It is far easier to start something than to finish it.
AMELIA EARHART
God indeed preserves the ship, but the mariner conducts it into the harbor.
ERASMUS
Little strokes fell great oaks.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
It is not bad to fall down. It is bad not to get up.
PHILIP M. LARSON, JR.
To try may be to die, but not to care is never to be born.
WILLIAM REDFIELD
The quality of our lives lies in doing and not in the done.
ROBERT ROSEN
Taking the line of least resistance is what makes rivers—and some people—so
crooked.
HENRY H. SAUNDERSON
Think for yourself and you become a voice—and are no longer merely
an echo.
HENRY H. SAUNDERSON
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
HUGH W. SLOAN
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
SOPHOCLES
We have climbed out of the dark only because a few dared to walk ahead and
face the sun.
ANNA GARLIN SPENCER
An achievement is simply a dream upon which we have labored.
JOHN A. TAYLOR
The most likely way to reach a goal is to aim at some more ambitious goal
beyond it.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
It is not the leap at the start but the steady going on that gets there.
JOHN WANAMAKER
You cannot call a room truly dark if you know where the light switch is.
MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI
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