Worthy Quotes #26

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
-- Corrie ten Boom

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
 -- Victor Hugo

A man never stands so tall as when he kneels to help a child.
--Knights of Pythagoras

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
--George Washington Carver

What we think is less than what we know;
What we know is less than what we love;
What we love is so much less than what there is.
And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
–-R.D. Laing

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom
-- Thomas Jefferson

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.
-- Dwight L. Moody

Blessed are those who expect little, for they will never be disappointed.
--Carl Sandburg

No man ever got lost on a straight road.
--Abe Lincoln

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
--Carl Sandburg

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
--Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Everything that can be invented has been invented.
--Charles H. Duell (U.S. Commissioner of Patents, 1899)