Haceta Head Lighthouse
"The lighthouse and the lightship appeal to the interests and better instinct of man because they are symbolic of never-ceasing watchfulness, of steadfast endurance in every exposure, of widespread helpfulness." George R. Putnam, first Commissioner of Lighthouses, U.S. Lighthouse Service, (1906-1935)
Ben Franklin -
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"Lost time is never found again."
"Well done is better than well said."
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon, and wise too late."
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Thomas Jefferson -
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend."
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Eleanor Roosevelt -
"With the new day comes strength and new thoughts."
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
"In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
"A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new and richer experience."
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Albert Einstein - quotes from {Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)}
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Aesop
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
"United we stand, divided we fall."
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
"It is not only fine feathers that make a fine bird."
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
"Appearances are often deceiving."
Aristotle
"A friend is a second self."
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"It is in justice that the order of society is centered."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Law is mind without reason."
"We are what we repeatedly do."
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."
"Evil brings men together."
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Chinese Proverbs
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
"A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers."
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."
"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
"Dig the well before you are thirsty."
"Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil."
"Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown."
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
"If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it, I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Helen Keller
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
"Lost time is never found again."
"Well done is better than well said."
"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon, and wise too late."
"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
Thomas Jefferson -
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friend."
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
Eleanor Roosevelt -
"With the new day comes strength and new thoughts."
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
"In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
"A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."
"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art."
"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new and richer experience."
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."
Albert Einstein - quotes from {Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgement)}
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)
Aesop
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
"In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest."
"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force."
"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
"United we stand, divided we fall."
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."
"It is not only fine feathers that make a fine bird."
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."
"Appearances are often deceiving."
Aristotle
"A friend is a second self."
"All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them."
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"It is in justice that the order of society is centered."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Law is mind without reason."
"We are what we repeatedly do."
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
"The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law."
"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."
"Evil brings men together."
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
Chinese Proverbs
"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
"A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers."
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."
"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."
"Dig the well before you are thirsty."
"Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil."
"Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown."
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
"If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it, I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
Helen Keller
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."
"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."