These famous people share my date of birth, November 30th. I share these quotes in agreeing with and pleasuring in history's words. Credit given to www.thinkexist.com. Quotes are many and I've only posted a few.
Sir Philip Sidney - English statesman
1554-1586
*If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it.*
*It is great happiness to be praised by them who are most praiseworthy.*
*Either I will find a way, or I will make one.*
*Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.*
*Come sleep! Oh sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.*
*The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.*
*Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.*
Winston Churchill - British orator, author, and prime minister during WWII
1874-1965
*Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.*
*Courage (Success) is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.*
*The price of greatness is responsibility.*
*A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.*
*Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.*
*Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.*
Mark Twain - American humorist, writer, lecturer
1835-1910
*Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.*
*I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.*
*It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.*
*When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.*
Lucy Maud Montgomery - Canadian writer
1874-1942
*In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.*
*Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.*
*We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.*
*That is one good thing about this world. . .there are always sure to be more springs.*
Shirley Chisholm - American politician, first African-American women in U.S. Congress
1924
*Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.*
*Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.*
*I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential.*
*The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl'.*
