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“He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.”

- Roy L. Smith

“When you are arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.”

- Unknown

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

- Kahlil Gibran

“Promise little, do much.”

- Hebrew Proverb

“Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.”

- Native American Proverb

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

- Woodrow Wilson

“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.”

- Jay Leno

“If you want to retain those who are present, be loyal to those who are absent.”

- Stephen R. Covey

“For to us a child is born,

to us a son is given,

and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called

Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”

- Isaiah 9:6

“You can't strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”

- William J. H. Boetcker

“Don't tell your friends about your indigestions:

‘How are you!’ is a greeting, not a question.”

- Arthur Guiterman

“It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.”

- Sydney J. Harris

“Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.”

- Chinese Proverb

“You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.”

- Robert H. Schuller

“Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.”

- Yiddish Proverb

“People often say that motivation doesn't last.

Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.”

- Zig Ziglar

“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

- Unknown

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

- Maya Angelou

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.”

- Dr. Seuss

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“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

- Unknown

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice. It is conformity.”

- Rollo May

“Failure is not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach.”

- Benjamin Mays

“Politicians are people who have what it takes to take what you have.”

- Jack Wenders

“You will kill ten of our men, and we will kill one of yours, and in the end it will be you who will tire of it.”

- Ho Chi Minh

“Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.”

- Peter Drucker

“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.”

- Swedish Proverb

“Most people treat God like they do a lawyer; they go to Him only when they are in trouble.”

- Unknown

“Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon.”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“Schizophrenia beats dining alone.”

- Thomas E. Gaul

“Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.”

- Rick Warren

“Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”

- Isaiah 43:1-2

“More things grow in the garden than the gardener sows.”

- Spanish Proverb

“A successful business is measured not by the owner doing extraordinary things but by its staff doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

- Unknown

“Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.”

- Fred Allen

“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.”

- Edgar Z. Friedenberg

“Cowardice asks, Is it safe? Expediency asks, Is it politic? Vanity asks, Is it popular? But conscience asks, Is it right?”

- William Morley Punshon

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.”

- Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

“Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an ordainer.”

- Asa Gray

“Politicians are people who have what it takes to take what you have.”

- Jack Wenders

“If you have been tempted into evil, fly from it. It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns.”

- Unknown

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

- George MacDonald

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.”

- Everett Dean Martin

“You can get whatever you want in this world if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.”

- Zig Ziglar

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

- William Faulkner

“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”

- Joshua 1:9

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”

- Edward H. Harriman

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.”

- Rudyard Kipling

“I am not what I ought to be,

I am not what I want to be,

I am not what I am going to be,

But I am thankful that

I am better than I used to be.”

- John Wooden