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Instant Inspiration

  • Here are some of Mr. Lamber's favorite quotes:

    Try not.  Do or do not.  There is no try.
    ~Yoda, Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back

    Who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
    ~Johann Von Schiller

    To find your own way is to follow your own bliss.  This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where the real deep bliss is -- not the quick little excitement, but the real, deep, life-filling bliss.  
    ~Joseph Campbell

    Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
    ~TS Eliot

    Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. 
    ~Whitney M. Young, Jr. 

    Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
     
    ~Mark Twain

    If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X Y Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. 
    ~Albert Einstein 

    Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
    ~Antonio Porchia (Poet)

    The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
    ~Henry David Thoreau 

    They who have a why to live can bear almost any how. 
    ~Friedrich Neitzsche 

    For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
    ~Sun Tzu (Ancient Wu General circa 500 BCE)
     
    We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft clods of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now...but it will grow again...like the trees. May serenity circle on silent wings and catch the whisper of the winds.
    ~Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
    ~Carl Sagan

    By failing to prepare, you are preparing for failure.
    ~Benjamin Franklin

    Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
    ~Henry David Thoreau 

    He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
    ~Dante Aligheiri

    The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague.
    Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins?
    ~Edgar Allen Poe

    Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Dost thou love life? 
    Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
    ~Benjamin Franklin 

    You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
    ~Mahatma Ghandi 

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
    ~Albert Einstein 

    The best way out is always through.
    ~Robert Frost

    The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
    ~Vince Lombardi

    It's dangerous business going out your front door.
    ~JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

     I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
    ~Maya Angelou

    Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
    ~Abraham Lincoln

    Little by little, one travels far.
    ~JRR Tolkien

    Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
    ~Arthur Schopenhauer 

    It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble... there lies your treasure.
    ~Joseph Campbell

    The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
    ~Michael Konda

    Wisdom begins in wonder.
    ~Socrates 

    What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    ~Joseph Campbell

    It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
    ~Henry David Thoreau
     
    Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
     
    In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
    ~Albert Camus (ka-moo)

    Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
    ~Winston Churchill

    The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
    ~Friedrich Nietzsche
     
    When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
    ~Abraham Lincoln
     
    The power of imagination makes us infinite.
    ~John Muir

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    ~Aristotle
     
    When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
    ~John Muir 
     
    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.
    ~Helen Keller
     
    Wise men talk because they have something to say:  fools, because they have to say something.
    ~Plato
     
    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.
    ~Helen Keller

    Courage is the price that LIFE exacts for granting peace.
    ~Amelia Earhart 
     
    An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    ~Carl Jung (yung) 
     
    Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    ~Charles Caleb Colton
     
    The surest way to corrupt youths are to instruct them to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
    ~Friedrich Nietzsche
     
    It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
    ~JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
    ~Abraham Lincoln 

    Faithless are they that say farewell when the road darkens.
    ~JRR Tolkien

    Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
    ~Epicurus (circa 300 BCE)
     
    All we have to do is decide what to do with the time we are given.
    ~JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
     
    A person who dares to waste one hour of their has not discovered the value of life.
    ~Charles Darwin
     
    What you are is what you have done, and what you will be is what you do now.
    ~The Buddha
     
    One must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
     
    I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
    ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

    The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    ~Mahatma Ghandi
     
    Whatever comes, this too shall pass.
    ~Ela Wheeler Wilcox
     
    The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. 
    ~Abraham Lincoln
     
    Every man is guilty of the good they didn't do.
    ~Voltaire

    Shallow men believe in luck.  Strong men believe in cause and effect.
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

    I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
    ~Aristotle

    He is able who thinks he is able.
    ~The Buddha

    Courage is not the absence of fear.  But rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
    ~Ambrose Redmoon (James Neil Hollingworth)

    Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
    ~Robert F. Kennedy

    It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
    ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 
     
    Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
    ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
    ~Nelson Mandela

    Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hatred, and hatred leads to suffering.
    ~Jedi Master Yoda, Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace
     
    It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
    ~JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
     
    It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
    ~Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt 

    When I examined myself and my methods of thought, I came to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
    ~Albert Einstein 
     
    It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled youthful curiosity, for this delicate plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.
    ~Albert Einstein 
     
    Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
    ~The Buddha 
     
    Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
    ~Albert Einstein

    The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other. 
    ~General Douglas MacArthur

    Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
    ~William Shakespeare 







     

Mark Twain
Albert Einstein
Maya Angelou
Freidrich Neitzsche
Chief Joseph
John Muir
Dante Alighieri
Henry David Thoreau
Sun Tzu
Helen Keller