Quotes Flashcards
Execution (T.S. Eliot)
“B/t the idea and the reality
Walking (Nietzsche)
“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”””
2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV
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.
Kindness by Mark Twain
“Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”””
Being a gentleman
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.
Overdressed/overeducated
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. -Oscar Wilde
Seeing (Thoreau)
“It’s not what you look at that matters
Reaction
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”-Epictetus “
The journey (Eisenhower)
Accomplishments will prove to be a journey, not a destination.- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Really living (N. Cousins)
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” - Norman Cousins”
Kissing goodbye vs goodnight (Hemingway)
“I don’t want to kiss you goodbye
Dreams (Roosevelt)
The future belongs to those that believe in the power of their dreams.-Eleanor Roosevelt
Alone
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
Be a traveler…
…not a tourist.
Use your words
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.-Rumi
Kindness
Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -Mark Twain
Believe, but not live
To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest. -Ghandi
Comparison
Comparison is the thief of joy. -T. Roosevelt
One life to do
You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly. -Colin Wright
Achieving inner peace
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -RW Emerson
Thinking to solve problems
We cannot solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. -Einstein
Small steps to success
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. -R. Collier
Ahead vs. behind
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.-CS Lewis
Mistakes
Your mistakes do not define you. Psalm 37:24