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Challenge "Many are called, but few get up." Oliver Herford Chain Saw "They're the only things that'll drown polka music out." Garfield Champion "More look up and admire the stars. A champion climbs a mountain and grabs one." H. Jackson Brown Change "Blessed are those who can live with change for they shall be constantly renewed." Unknown "Both tears and sweat are salty, but render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy. Sweat will get you change." Jesse Jackson "Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict." Saul Alinsky "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." Unknown "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." Unknown "Change is your friend, but your friend is unstable." Carl Steidtmann "Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth." Archimedes "How often events, by chance, and quite unexpectedly, come to pass, which you had not even dared to hope for!" Terence "I will prepare, and someday my chance will come." Abraham Lincoln "If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead." Frank Gelett Burgess "If you never stick your neck out, you'll never get your head above the crowd." Unknown "In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur "It helps to use your entire skill set when you're trying to change the world." The 4400 "It's just change. It happens all the time. It isn't the end, it isn't the end of anything." Joanna Trollope, Girl from the South "Never doubt that a group of people can change the world. Indeed that is all that ever has." Margaret Mead "Nothing happens quite by chance." Unknown "One day you're the leader of the free world, and the next day you're an out of work saxophone player hauled in on a morals charge." Jay Leno "Organizations don't change, people do. The ebb and flow of organizational dynamics do not require change to be mandated by CEOs or other high-ranking executives. In fact, smart organizations of the future won't try to manage change processes. Instead they will nurture the spirit of change within their people. That way, change will occur naturally, and it will preserve the heart and soul of the organization." Sue Simmons, letter to Fast Company "The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it." Colin Wilson "They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Andy Warhol "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." John F. Kennedy "You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both." Kenneth Cole "You must be the change you wish to see." Mahatma Gandhi "We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. ... It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling." Eric Hoffer "We cannot change the past. What we can change is the future." Bill Clinton "We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course." Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi "You cannot change what you are, only what you do." Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass "You can't make something into something it isn't, just because you want it to be different." Joanna Trollope, Girl from the South Chaos "Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd." I Ching: The Book of Changes and the... "Order grows out of chaos." Alvin Toffler "The organizations that are most likely to survive are those that can balance themselves on the edge of chaos - and between the forces of change and the forces of stability." Fast Company Character "A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities." Charles DeGaulle "A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." Martin Luther King, Jr. "Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness." Faith Baldwin "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." Helen Keller "Character grows in the soil of experience, with fertilization of example, the moisture of desire, and the sunshine of satisfaction." Unknown "Sui cuique fingunt fortunam." (Character fashions fate.) Nepos "Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." Unknown "Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success." John Hays Hammond "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered." Aeschylus "Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way ... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions." Aristotle "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back." Abigail Van Buren "The highest qualities of character must be earned." Lyman Abbott "There is nothing so fatal to character than half-finished tasks." David Lloyd George "Don't just make a donation. Make a difference." Salvation Army ad "Financial help must be given with great discrimination and without any thought of return." Prince Felix Youssoupoff, Lost Splendor: The Amazing Memoirs of the Man Who Killed Rasputin "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill Charm "Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality." Gracie Allen "Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question." Albert Camus Cheerfulness "Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Joseph Addison "So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains." Ralph Waldo Emerson "The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene." Michel Eyquem de Montaigne "I don't want cheese out of pity. I want cheese out of love." King of Queens Goat cheese - "Anything that resembles mucus can see the Etiquette Grrls in hell." Etiquette Grrls "I do enjoy a stinky cheese." Travelocity ad "What a friend we have in cheese puffs." The Simpsons "What if I'm just cheese?" Wonderfalls "You can never go wrong with a lovely wedge of cheese." Megan Mullally "All chefs are equal in the eyes of an ingredient." Iron Chef, the Official Book Chefs are "wacked-out moral degenerates, dope fiends, refugees, a thuggish assortment of drunks, sneak thieves, sluts, and psychopaths." Anthony Bourdain Dick Cheney "Dick Cheney makes Voldemort look like Ron Weasley." Newsweek Childbirth "Childbirth is no fun, but at the end you get a big present." Nora Ephron "You only get one chance at childhood." Kathy Gonzalez "A child is life's greatest gift." Poltergeist-The Legacy "A child is the only known substance from which a responsible adult can be made." Unknown "Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest." Karen Savage and Patricia Adams, The Good Stepmother: A Practical Guide "All children are children finally - it hardly matters to which race or culture they belong - they belong first to the race and culture of children." Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals... "Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home." Unknown Children are "candles to be lit, not bottles to be filled." Unknown "Children are the proof we've been here." Allison Pearson, I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life... "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it." George Orwell "Loving a child as one's own doesn't require participating in the labor and delivery." Sarah Waby "Of all the milestones in your life, nothing changes you for the better more than having children." Colin Ungaro "Raising children is like taking pictures. You never know how they’ll come out." Unknown "Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare." Edward Asner "Raising kids is like being pecked to death by a duck!" Unknown "Raising multiple children is like being a missionary to a hostile tribe." Unknown "The surest way to make it hard for your children is to make it soft for them." Unknown ""The decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever after to have your heart go walking around outside your body." Elizabeth Stone "We can't always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Franklin Delano Roosevelt "What's more important than a child?" John Walsh "Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart." German proverb "Your children need your presence more than your presents." Rev. Jesse Jackson Folic acid helps prevent birth defects. "A girlfriend will leave you. Chocolate won't." Hershey's ad "Chocolate, besides being delicious, must surely count as a fruit. After all, cocoa beans come from cocoa pods, which are, essentially, the fruit of the cocoa tree." Tamar Myers, Gruel and Unusual Punishment "Chocolate is to women what beer is to men. Chocolate is nature's Midol. While money talks, chocolate sings. Chocolate single-handedly sustains the vital control-top panty industry." Jackie Papandrew "Folate is better than chocolate." Nancy Kamp "I believe in chocolate." Angela Primlani "If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, it may be a sign of a deeper problem." Unknown "Money talks. Chocolate sings." Unknown "There's no problem that can't be solved by chocolate." Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the TV show (Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete...) Choice "By not going down the road, it remains the road ahead." Peter MacNichol as John Cage in Ally McBeal "Choice is oxygen on the Internet." John Lorimer "Choosing the lessor of two evils, is still choosing evil." Christopher Hampton "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryant "Do you keep the yacht, do you go to the classic car auction, do you take the private jet?" Joseph Montgomery, Wachovia Securities "Doing the right thing is a lot easier than knowing what it is." Harry Truman "Either way, you end up on a stretcher, covered in mustard." Tim Dorsey, Gator A-Go-Go "Even God gives us a choice of whether we want heaven or hell." Reverend Al Sharpton "Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music, and rings the whole day through; and you will make of it a dance, a dirge or a life march as you will." Unknown "If you are in doubt as to whether a course of action is good or not, ask yourself whether it could be made, without danger to mankind, a universal law." Immanuel Kant "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets... "In a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people everywhere not to be on the side of the executioners." Albert Camus "Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right." Unknown "Nobody should have to choose between buying food and buying medicine." Don Smith of Manna Ministries "Nobody who has a white carpet and white silk dining room chairs is going to have peace and joy this Christmas or any other day." Miss Manners, Judith Martin "One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral validation; only reference to a demonstrable principle can validate one's choices." Ayn Rand "The appearance of choice is very important. It puts people at ease." Once and Again "The hardest lesson we have to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn." Unknown "There's small choice in rotten apples." William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew "Tomorrow will you be the dinner? Or the diner?" Ernst & Young ad "Whatever I do, I'm going to get hammered." Katherine Harris "The purpose of Christianity is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the troubled." G. K. Chesterton "There's a new version of 'Christmas Carol' in 3-D. After all, who doesn't want to see an old man in a nightgown in 3-D?" Craig Ferguson "Nothing says Christmas like Mick Jagger in a top hat." Bill Flanagan, CBS Sunday Morning Christmas tree "It doesn't matter if your tree comes from a pristine forest or a cardboard box. What matters is the family that gathers to decorate it. When the hand blown heirloom globes or the preschool paper chains go on, the tree becomes something else entirely - a glittering monument to a family's love, and a celebration of the warmth and comfort of home." Stephen C. George, The Real Tree "If people got to decide this for themselves, people would never go to church." Frazier "The Church needs nothing but the truth." Pope Leo XIII "Who am I to say that someone can't come and hear God's word?" Ginny Read |
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