Stand Out Copy

As words move others to act, so these have moved me. Enjoy!

“It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. ”
Thomas Jefferson

“Words may show a man’s wit, but actions, his meaning. ”
Benjamin Franklin

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ”
Kahlil Gibran

“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. ”
Vince Lombardi

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these,
‘it might have been.’”
John Greenleaf Whittier

“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”
Winston Churchill

“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.”
John F. Kennedy

“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”
Elie Wiesel

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
Jack London

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
Rudyard Kipling

“Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”
Lord Byron

“Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world!”
Benjamin Franklin

“Poets, priests, and politicians have words to thank for their positions.”
Gordon Sumner, a.k.a. Sting

“Talk doesn’t cook rice.”
Chinese proverb

“Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Defeat may well serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”
Edwin Markham

”Inches make champions.”
Vince Lombardi

“People are always blaming their circumstances for being what they are…The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Wealth lost-something lost; honor lost-much lost; courage lost-all lost.”
German proverb

“Whatever you can do, or think you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
Goethe

“The secret of success is the consistency of purpose.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“People often need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”
John Harrigan

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau

“For as he thinks within himself, so he is.”
Proverbs 23:7

“He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”
Abraham Lincoln

“All are architects of fate, working within these walls of time.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
Albert Einstein

“When a task is once begun, leave it not until it’s done.
Be a matter great or small, do it well or not at all.”
Zig Ziglar

“What you are shouts so loudly in my ears that I can’t hear what you are saying.”
Mark Twain

Beauty Tips:
For attractive lips,
speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes,
seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure,
share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair,
let a child run his/her fingers through it
once a day.
For poise,
walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things,
have to be restored, renewed,
revived, reclaimed, and redeemed;
Never throw out anyone!
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the
end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that
you have two hands;
one for helping yourself, and the other for
helping others.
~Audrey Hepburn~

If
If you can keep your head while all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait but not be tired by waiting,
Or, lied about, don’t deal in lies;
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream and not make dreams your master
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn out tools;
If you can make a heap of all your winnings
And risk it in one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To server your turn long after they are gone,
And so, go on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with crowds, nor lose the common touch,
If neither friends nor loving foes can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And, which is more, you’ll be a Man, my son!
~Rudyard Kipling~

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
         Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
         It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
         We ask ourselves, who am I to be 
         brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
         Actually, who are you not to be?
         You are a child of G-d.
         Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
         There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking 
         so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
         We were born to make manifest the 
         glory of G-d that is within us.
         It’s not just in some of us, 
         it’s in everyone;
         And, as we let our own light shine,
         We unconsciously give other people 
         permission to do the same.
        As we are liberated from our own fear;
       Our presence automatically liberates others.
       ~Nelson Mandela~