motivational quotes for the day

It's not the bullet with my name on it that worries me. It's the one that says "To whom it may concern." ~Anonymous Belfast resident, quoted in London Guardian, 1991



A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self. ~Marian Sandmaier



Truth fears no questions. ~Unknown



Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. ~Jay Leno



For every promise, there is price to pay. ~Jim Rohn



Volunteers do it for free. ~Author Unknown



Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. ~Oren Arnold



Pretty is the queen that rules our land. ~Carrie Latet



The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history. ~Benedetto Croce, History as the Story of Liberty



If you don't know there's a trampoline in the room, you're not going to dust the ceiling for prints. ~From the television show Law & Order



An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown



It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ~David Ormsby Gore



All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. ~Elbert Hubbard



Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. ~Carter Lindberg



In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ~Aldo Leopold



Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow. ~Vince Lombardi



With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. ~Russian proverb



When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton



I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678