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Some of my favorite quotes!

 

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By David Kupfer

"Leadership is action, not position." – Donald Megannen

"Don't agonize, organize!" – Florence Kennedy

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." – Emerson

"The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on Earth." – Sir Wilfred Grenfell

"In dreams begin responsibility." – Yeats

 


"It is better to light a candle than to curse darkness." – William L. Watkinson

"Make your life a mission, not an intermission." – Arnold Glengow

"They also serve those that stand and wait." – Milton

"A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes." – Dostoevsky

"Life isn't what happens to you, life is what you DO with what happens to you" – Unknown

"It's only after you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything." – Fight Club

"Create your reality consciously rather than living as if you have no control over your life." – Unknown

"Your expectations tend to prove your reality" – dk

"Perceive all problems as opportunities." -Unknown

"Receive all persons as beautiful exactly where they are." – Norman Vincent Peale

"Do not carry stress on your sleeve, in your body or mind," – Uknown

"Make the best of your time-it is life's greatest gift" – Rick Warren

"Do not limit yourself" "You are not what you think you are, what you think is what you are" – Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

"Don't let school get in the way of your education." – Mark Twain

"Celebrate the mysteries of life!" – David Mamet

"Don't postpone Joy!" – Peter Taylor

"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." – Peter Ustinov

"If there is no wind, row!" – Latin proverb

"Never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another." ~ Juvenal (60-130 A.D., Roman Satiric Poet).

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." – Emerson

"The quality of life is determined by it's activities." – Aristotle

"All work is empty save when there is love." – Gibran

"If a person does not keep pace with is companions, perhaps it is because s/he hears a different drummer. Let her/him keep step to the music which s/he hears, however measured or far away." – H.D. Thoreau

"Whatever you can do – or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. Begin it now!" – Goethe

 

David Kupfer - activist, writer, agrarian, human

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  1. Eileen Samitz

    Thanks for this. Great quotes! I’ll be borrowing some of them in the future!

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