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Limitation Realized

“Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.” --Richard Bach(click picture to enlarge)

Free from Fear

“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.” --Alexander the Great

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” --Dennis Waitley

Prefer Disgrace

“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” --Alexander Hamilton

Effort Stopper

“Don’t permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.” --John Wooden

Mistake Free Tomorrow

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” --L. M. Montgomery

History Teaches

“History teaches us what we were not where we are going.” --Jeffrey Fry

A Little Help

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”--Sally Koch(click picture to enlarge)

Facts and Opinions

“People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.” --James W. Loewen

Morals of the Community

The subjects to which I would ask each of my readers to devote his earnest attention are these: The life and morals of the community; and the men and the qualities by which, through domestic policy and foreign war, dominion was won and extended. Then as the standard...

Patriotic Duty

“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” --Edward Abbey

Honor Lost

“What is left when honor is lost?” --Publilius Syrus

Overcome Fear

“Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.” --Martin Luther King, Jr.

Civil Disobedience

“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.” --Mahatma Gandhi

A Bitter Plant

“Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.”--Charles Swindoll(click picture to enlarge)

Seek the Truth

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” --Marcus Aurelius

Enslaving Mankind

“The new philosophies and new religions and new social systems cannot draw up their own plans for emancipating mankind without still further enslaving mankind.” --G.K. Chesterton

Knowledge versus Wisdom

“Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.”--Zen Saying

More will Fight

“On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!” --Alexander the Great

Success’ Aim

“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”--David Frost

Fear Move

“Don’t move the way fear makes you move.” --Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Give Yourself Away

“Life is what you get when you give yourself away to others.” --James Rumbo(click picture to enlarge)

World of Wonder

“There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't even started wondering about yet.” --Roald Dahl

Life Choices

“You can live a safe life. Or you can live a full life. You can’t live both.” --Dennis Prager

Properly Armed

“The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.” --Alexander Hamilton

Object of Life

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” --Marcus Aurelius

National Strength

“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” --Confucius

Something Noble

“There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of when I am doing well.” --Alexander the Great

Course To Victory

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.”--Arthur Golden(click picture to enlarge)

Being Silences

“We live in a time when smart people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.” --Alan Jones

Men Oppose

“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” --Alexander Hamilton

Be Good

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.” --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Constant War

“Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.”...

Greatness of Man

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” --Bob Marley

False Creed

“There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.” --Titus Livius (Livy)

Love and Debt

“This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.”--Earl Wilson(click picture to enlarge)

Lonely Lion

“It’s better to be a lonely lion than a popular sheep.” --Unknown

Scared, Not Afraid

“Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid.” --William Faulkner

Test of Integrity

“There is no better test of a man’s integrity than his behavior when he is wrong.” --Marvin Williams

Turn Out Best

“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.” --Titus Livius (Livy)

Cold Dead Fate

“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.” --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Government Betrayal

“When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.” --Alexander Hamilton

A Great Teacher

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”--William Arthur Ward(click picture to enlarge)

True Love

“True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.” --Alexander the Great

Real Danger

“Danger is very real. But fear is a choice.” --Will Smith

Keep on Going

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” --Charles F. Kettering

Destiny Calls

“When destiny calls, the chosen have no choice.” --Jedi Proverb

Slow to Reconginze

“Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.” --Titus Livius (Livy)

Shoot Your Way Out

“You can easily vote your way into socialism, but your grandchildren will have to shoot their way out.” --Unknown

Time Well Spent

“How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.”--Denis Waitley(click picture to enlarge)

Not a Gift

“Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.” --Unknown

Promise of Greatness

“There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.” --Titus Livius (Livy)

Failed Nation

“Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail.” --Yemi Osinbajo

Avoid Reality

“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” --Unknown (paraphrasing of Ayn Rand)

Emply Fears

“He who indulges in empty fears earns himself real fears.” --Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Multiplied Effect

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”--Sun Tzu

Walk Unafraid

“We were not created to be eaten by anxiety, but to walk erect, free, unafraid in a world where there is work to do, truth to seek, love to give and win.”--Joseph Ford Newton(click picture to enlarge)

End to Beginning

“For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” --T.S. Elliot

A Scarce Man

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” --Mark Twain

Set Goals

“If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them.” --Yogi Berra

Major v. Minor

“Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.”--Jim Rohn

Last Best Hope

“The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just. A way which, if followed, the world will forever...

Isolate from Reality

“Too much of what is called education is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” --Thomas Sowell

Good or Great

“Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.”--Jeffrey Fry(click picture to enlarge)

Ethical Standing

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” --Gordon A. Eadie

Corrupt Government

“The government will one day be corrupt and filled with liars, and the people will flock to the one who tells the truth.” --Unknown (misattributed to Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln)

Own Your Mistakes

“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.” --Nicole Guillaume

Escape Fear

“I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.” --Epictetus

Evade Reality

“Man is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” --Ayn Rand

Love’s Gift

“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.” --Rabindranath Tagore(click picture to enlarge)

Truth Dies

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” --Ethel Annakin

Threats to Freedom

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” --George Orwell

Future State

“The future ain’t what it used to be.” --Yogi Berra

Move the Enemy

“Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.” --Sun Tzu

Less Afraid

“The more you fail, the less you’re afraid of it.” --Gary Vaynerchuk

Truth of Consequences

“Your fears of the consequences of a bold action are way out of proportion to reality, and in fact the consequences of timidity are worse.” --Robert Greene

Success in Your Child’s Eyes

“You can use most any measure when you're speaking of success. You can measure it in a fancy home, expensive car or dress.But the measure of your real success is one you cannot spend—It's the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.”--Martin...

Universal Harmony

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” --Marcus Aurelius

Symbol of Democracy

“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.” --George Orwell

Untitlement

“One of the consequences of such notions as “entitlements” is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.” --Thomas Sowell

Formula of Success

“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.” --Theodore Roosevelt

Cure the World

“If you want to cure the world, do not emanate fear, emanate love.” --Ram Dass

Future Predictions

“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” --Yogi Berra

Balanced

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”--Chinese Proverb(click picture to enlarge)

Knowledge & Integrity

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” --Samuel Johnson

Left-wing Thought

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.” --George Orwell

Deception in War

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.” --Sun...