Quotes

Question 1

Execution (T.S. Eliot)

Answer 1

“B/t the idea and the reality

Question 2

Walking (Nietzsche)

Answer 2

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”””

Question 3

2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV

Answer 3

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Question 4

Kindness by Mark Twain

Answer 4

“Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”””

Question 5

Being a gentleman

Answer 5

Being a male is a matter of birth, being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentleman is a matter of choice.

Question 6

Overdressed/overeducated

Answer 6

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. -Oscar Wilde

Question 7

Seeing (Thoreau)

Answer 7

“It’s not what you look at that matters

Question 8

Reaction

Answer 8

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”-Epictetus “

Question 9

The journey (Eisenhower)

Answer 9

Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 10

Really living (N. Cousins)

Answer 10

The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” - Norman Cousins”

Question 11

Kissing goodbye vs goodnight (Hemingway)

Answer 11

“I don’t want to kiss you goodbye

Question 12

Dreams (Roosevelt)

Answer 12

The future belongs to those that believe in the power of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 13

Alone

Answer 13

I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person. -Oscar Wilde

Question 14

Be a traveler…

Answer 14

…not a tourist.

Question 15

Use your words

Answer 15

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.-Rumi

Question 16

Kindness

Answer 16

Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -Mark Twain

Question 17

Believe, but not live

Answer 17

To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest. -Ghandi

Question 18

Comparison

Answer 18

Comparison is the thief of joy. -T. Roosevelt

Question 19

One life to do

Answer 19

You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly. -Colin Wright

Question 20

Achieving inner peace

Answer 20

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -RW Emerson

Question 21

Thinking to solve problems

Answer 21

We cannot solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -Einstein

Question 22

Small steps to success

Answer 22

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -R. Collier

Question 23

Ahead vs. behind

Answer 23

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.-CS Lewis

Question 24

Mistakes

Answer 24

Your mistakes do not define you. Psalm 37:24

Question 25

The purpose of life is not to be happy

Answer 25

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and loved well. -RW Emerson

Question 26

Travel

Answer 26

“I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroad

Question 27

Passion in life

Answer 27

“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”“-Van Gogh”

Question 28

Love what you do (Aristotle)

Answer 28

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”””

Question 29

The best time to do something

Answer 29

“The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”“-Chinese proverb”