Category: Weekly Quote

Sometimes, I think, the things we see Are shadows of the things to be; That what we plan we build. -Phoebe Cary

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. -Julie Andrews

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. -Joseph Addison

There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin

People with clear, written goals, accomplish more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. -Brian Tracy

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end,  …it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.   🙂 -Doug Larson

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. –Henry David Thoreau

A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. –George Bernard Shaw

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. –Bertrand Russell

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. –William Butler Yeats

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions. It deals with the future of present decisions. – Peter F. Drucker

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own, . . . for you are unique and more wondrous than you know! -Linda Staten

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles and education they need to make them good citizens. -Sandra Day O’Connor

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. -Vida D. Scudder

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon: to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Values are guiding devices to enhance our ability to achieve our purposes. -Allan Cox

The Flag and the Constitution stand for democracy and not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Balance is the key to success in all things. Do not neglect your mind, body, or spirit. Invest time and energy in all of them equally—it will be the best investment you ever make, not just for your life but for whatever is to follow. – Tanya Wheway