achievement quotes

If it isn't a baby, then you aren't pregnant, so what are you aborting? ~Author Unknown



Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. ~George Bernard Shaw



I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck



Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas



If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got. ~Author Unknown



There is only one trait which is irreparable in a statesman: honesty! Honesty is negative and sterile; it is ignorant of the correct evaluation of appetite and ambition - the only powers through which you can found anything durable. ~"The Mission," Chapter 3



The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. ~Maria Montessori



The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine. ~Gene Perret



To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no. ~Jean Anouilh



People ask how I think up my thoughts. Mostly I think them up while reading Paul Simon's lyrics. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye



When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. ~Samuel Johnson



The better the gambler, the worse the man. ~Publius Syrus



There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~Winston Churchill There are always three sides to every story: your side, the other side, and the truth. ~Author Unknown



Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. ~Author Unknown



What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses



A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. ~Douglas Pagels



A fellow ought to save a few of the long evenings he spends with his girl till after they're married. ~Kin Hubbard



My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. ~Robert Maynard Hutchins