Quotes Worth Remembering

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"The secret to getting ahead is getting started."~ Mark Twain

"One today is worth two tomorrows."~ Ben Franklin

"If you can't feed 1,000 people, then feed one."~ Mother Teresa

"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it."~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. Jane Haddam

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? Jane Nelson

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass

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