• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

• Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against--not with--the wind.

• Nothing is lost upon a person who is bent upon growth; nothing is wasted on one who is always preparing for his work and life by keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience. Such a man finds ministries to his education on all sides; everything cooperates with his passion for growth.

MacArthur, Douglas (General)

• I realize that advice is worth what it costs--that is, nothing.

• Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

• There is no security on this Earth; there is only opportunity.

• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Macaulay, Rose

• Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. (Letters to a Friend)

• Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hours spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed with a book after being called in the morning.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

MacCartney, Kevin

• As I emerge from the forested Cape Alava Trail into the open expanse of the magnificent Ozette wilderness coast [87 miles east of Port Angeles, WA], I am always struck with a sense of awe at the beauty of the soaring eagles overhead, the deer grazing in the grass by the edge of the beach, and the islands and seastacks silhouetted by clouds rolling across gray skies in the distance. (in Olympic National Park newsletter, July 1-Sept. 7, 1992)

Macdonald, Elinor

• Too often we visit the well of divine abundance with a teacup instead of a bucket.

Macdonald, George

• Beauty and sadness always go together.
  Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
  Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

• Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

• God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

• Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

• A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. (Sir Gibbie)

• There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve. (The Marquis of Lossie)

• To be trusted is a greater accomplishment than to be loved.

MacDonald, Roger (Dr.)

• A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. (A County Doctor's Casebook)

MacGinley, Phyllis

• Those wearing Tolerance for a label
  Call other views intolerable. ("In Praise of Diversity" The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley)

Machiavelli, Niccolo

• It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.

• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

• Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Mackenzie, Gordon

• It's hard for corporations to understand that creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering. (Orbiting the Giant Hairball : A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace)

• Our creative genius is the fountainhead of originality. It fires our compulsion to evolve. It inspires us to challenge norms. Creative genius is about flying to new heights on untested wings. It is about the danger of crashing.

• You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that ahs ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you.

MacLaine, Shirley

• I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.

Macphail, Agnes

• Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Maden, Judith

• Doubt not to reap, if thou can't bear to plough.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Magee, William Connor

• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Magida, Arthur J.

• Questions took people on quests; occasionally, questions actually led to answers. (Opening the Doors of Wonder)

Maguire, Mairead Corrigan

• Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies." ("Gandhi and the Ancient Wisdom of Nonviolence" in Peace is the Way, ed. by Wink)

Mahfouz, Naguib

• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Mahoney, David

• Don't waste your time trying to control the uncontrollable, or trying to solve the unsolvable, or think about what could have been. Instead, think about what you can control and solve the problem you can solve with the wisdom you have gained from both your victories and your defeats in the past.

Maimonides

• Hold firmly to your word.

Mainwaring, William L.

• Oregon is blessed with a coastline of scenic beauty and variety unmatched on this continent. It's a delightful place, where the Pacific surge washes and sometimes pounds the western edge of our continent. It's a land of storms and sunburns, of wharves and lighthouses, of salt air and fading paint. It's a perfect place for the human psyche to unwind, for workaday tensions to be washed away by the rhythmic cadence of the surf. (Exploring the Oregon Coast)

Maistre, Joseph Marie de

• To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Makeba, Mariam

• There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Malamud, Bernard

• Without heroes, we're all plain people and don't know how far we can go. (The Natural)

Malinowski, Bronislaw

• An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.

Maloo, Mae

• The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

Maltz, Maxwell

• Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or idea, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk--and to act.

• People who say life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile… Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project… Always have something ahead of you to "look forward to"--to work for and to hope for.

• Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow--after you have done your best to achieve success today.

• We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Mandela, Nelson

• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

• One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God! Your playing small doesn't' serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

• Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

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

Mandino, Og

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

• The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.

• I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

• In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedes all others, is--"I will form good habits and become their slaves." (The Greatest Salesman in the World)

• It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

• Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet, each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward. Turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

Mankiller, Wilma (Chief)

• My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

Mann, Horace

• Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

• It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

• Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more you must have of the former.

• Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

• The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Mann, Louis L.

• What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Mann, Thomas

• It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

• Solitude gives birth to the original in us.

• Time has no divisions to mark its passage.. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. (The Magic Mountain)

Mannes, Marya

• Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow
  The faucets leak, and learn to leave them so. ("Controverse" But Will It Sell?)

• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

• Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being. (More in Anger)

• You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. (More in Anger)

Manning, Brennan

• Humble men and women do not have a low opinion of themselves; they have no opinion of themselves, because they so rarely think about themselves. The heart of humility lies in undivided attention to God and a de-selfing of our plans, projects, ambitions and soul. Humility is an indifference to our own well-being and a carefree disregard of the image we present. No longer concerned with appearing to be good, we can move freely in the mystery of who we really are, aware of the sovereignty of God and of our absolute insufficiency and yet moved by a spirit of radical self-acceptance without self-concern.

• The spirit of domination through force is irreconcilable with obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Christians have only one master. Following him is incompatible with any state of servitude to any other Jesus couched his teachings in language that any twelve-year-old can understand He said unequivocally blessed are those who make peace, not war. The issue of the production, possession, and use of nuclear weapons must be discussed in terms of our Christian identity, not in terms of national security, the Iraqi threat, or safeguarding our standard of living. The arms race is not a political football but a deeply spiritual matter Mass murder in the name of democracy or patriotism is the idolatry of the nation-stare. The prophetic task and pastoral obligation of the church of Jesus Christ-a people called together, set apart, and consecrated to the worship of God-is to proclaim God's peace and love in the actual situation of our broken and tormented world. (The Signature of Jesus)

• With a strong affirmation of our goodness and a gentle understanding of our weakness, God is loving us--you and me--this moment, just as we are and not as we should be. (Ruthless Trust)

Mansfield, Katherine

• Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would be different.

• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

• The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

• Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

• When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Manske, Fred A. (Jr.)

• The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

Marchant, E. C.

• Make big plans, but change your plans as time changes.

• To succeed in business, be daring, be original, be first.

Marcus Aurelius

• Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

• The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

• Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

• Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

• Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe love nothing so much as to change… The Universe is change.

• Our life is what our thoughts make it.

• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

• Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

• This is moral perfection: to live each day as though it were the last; to be tranquil, sincere.

• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

• We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marden, Orison Swett

• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

• But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind --Act!--Orison Swett Marden

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given to him.

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

• There is no medicine like hope, no incentives so great, and no tonics so powerful as the expectation of something better tomorrow.

• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

• You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Margolius, Hans

• Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.

Marie de France

• The fool shouts loudly, thinking to impress the world. (Medieval Fables of Marie de France)

Mariott, J. Willard

• Good timber does not grow with ease;
  the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Maris, Roger

• You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.

Markham, Beryl

• No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work. (West with the Night)

Markham, Edwin

• He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in.

Markoe, Merril

• It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!

Maron, Margaret

• Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

Marquis, Don

• An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

• Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

Marsala, Vicki

• The truth comes out in jokes.

Marshall, Helen Lowrie

• The merry family gatherings--
  The old, the very young;
  The strangely lovely way they
  Harmonize in carols sung.
  
  For Christmas is tradition time--
  Traditions that recall
  The precious memories down the years,
  The sameness of them all.

Marshall, Peter

• It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

• Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

• May we not "spend" Christmas or "observe" Christmas, but rather "keep" it.

• When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Marston, Ralph

• Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Martial

• Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Martin, F. W.

• The creative process takes its own course. If it did otherwise, it would not be creative. (Experiment in Depth)

Martin, James

• From my first hike I learned that the Cascades [mountains] deserve their name. The sound of falling water rings everywhere. It murmurs in the forest and roars down cliffs. Tiny rivulets trace eccentric paths on the surface of glaciers, plunging into crevasses and joining one another to become torrents carrying powdered rock to the Pacific. The range harbors tremendous quantities of water in its glaciers, icecaps, and snowfields. When the warmth of summer arrives, the frozen reservoir releases its stores and the mountains sing. (North Cascades Crest: Notes and Images from America's Alps)

Martin, Judith S.

• It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Martin, Mary

• We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

Marx, Groucho

• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Maskin, J. Robert

• One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.

Maslow, Abraham Howard

• If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Mason, John L.

• As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

• While an original is always hard to find, he is easy to recognize.

Massieu

• Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Masterman, J. C.

• We can learn from experience if we are ready to adapt that experience to changed conditions. (The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939-1945)

Matheson, George

• We conquer--not in any brilliant fashion--we conquer by continuing.

Mathews, William

• It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

Matisse, Henri

• What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter…a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Matthews, Andrew

• Nature always takes her time. Great oaks don't become great overnight. They also lose a lot of leaves, branches and bark in the process of becoming great.

Maugham, W. Somerset

• The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. (A Winter's Notebook)

• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; o the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than the young

• It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

• To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give… You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly…. My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. (Great Novelists and Their Works)

Maxwell, Florida Scott

• Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you… Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

• You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Maxwell, John C. (To order Developing the Leader Within You Click here!)

• As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works. (Developing the Leader Within You)

• Do you value people who won't benefit you or only those who might contribute in some way to your success? Great team players truly value others as people, and they know and relate to what others value.

• The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. (Developing the Leader Within You)

• The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

• I define self-control, in the beginning of life, as the choice of achieving what I really want by doing things I really don't want to do. Once this becomes a habit, discipline becomes the choice of achieving what I really want by doing the very things I now want to do! I really believe that a disciplined life becomes a joy--but only after we have worked hard to practice it.

• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

• Leadership is not a right--it is a responsibility.

• The pessimist complains about the wind.
  The optimist expects it to change.
  The leader adjusts the sails. (Developing the Leader Within You)

• We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. Too often we try to choose and control things we cannot. Too seldom we choose to control what we can … our attitude. (Developing the Leader Within You)

• We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. (Developing the Leader Within You)

• The whole idea of motivation is a trap. Forget motivation. Just do it. Exercise, lose weight, test your blood sugar, or whatever. Do it without motivation. And then, guess what? After you start doing the thing, that's when the motivation comes and makes it easy for you to keep on doing it. (Developing the Leader Within You)

Maxwell, Neal A.

• Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

May, Rilla

• Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.

May, Rollo

• Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Mayo, Sp4

• I went to Vietnam to wage war,
  in order that there would be peace,
  but there was no peace,
  only much death and sorrow.
  And I only hope that from the knowledge
  of those who have returned,
  those who will return,
  and those who will not return,
  that there will never be a war in our own country. (Chu Lai, South Viet Nam, Dec 1970)

Mays, Benjamin E.

• It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

McAfee, Mildred

• If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now.

McBroom, Manda

• It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
  It's the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
  It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give,
  and the soul afraid of dyin' that never learns to live. ("The Rose")

McCarry, Charles

• Do you know what makes a man a genius? The ability to see the obvious.

McCarthy, Mary

• We are the hero of our own story.

McCarthy, R. C.

• Different people must contend with different trials, but adversities in some shape or other come to everyone.

McCartney, Bill

• If you want to take the meaning of the word integrity and reduce it to its simplest terms, you'd conclude that a man of integrity is a promise keeper. When he gives you his word. You can take it to the bank. His word is good. (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 155)

McCaulay, Rose

• Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and other is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated. (Dangerous Ages)

McClellan, Ernst B.

• The spirit of this season
  Is old, yet ever new;
  May it be yours on Christmas
  And last the new year through. ("The Spirit if This Season")

McClendon, Carl

• The good that Martin Luther King Jr. did remains undiminished ... He was great precisely because, like other heroes, he did not allow human weakness to deter him from doing great works.

McClintock, Barbara

• I've just been so interested in what I was doing [genetic research] that I never thought of stopping.

McCloskey, Robert

• I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

McConville, Brigid

• Sisters are connected throughout their lives by a special bond--whether they try to ignore it or not. For better or for worse, sisters remain sisters, until death do them part. (in Sisters: Love and Conflict Within The Lifelong Bond)

McCourt, Malachy

• Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

McCracken, Robert J.

• The world is not perishing for the want of clever or talented, or well-meaning men. It is perishing for the want of men of courage and resolution.

McCullers, Carson

• The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

McDougall, George F.

• Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

McElyea, Jane

• Genius lies not in thinking of ideas, but in the ability to execute the ideas.

McEnroe, John

• The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

McGraw, Tim

• We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

McIntyre, Reba

• To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone- (Comfort From a Country Quilt)

McKay, David O.

• Let us realize that:
  the privilege to work is a gift,
  the power to work is a blessing,
  the love of work is success!

• True Christianity is love in action.

Mckeun, Rod

• The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.

McKinnon, Dan

• Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

McKibben, Frank

• This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.

McLaughlin, Mignon

• Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. (The Neurotic's Notebook)

• Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

• Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. (The Neurotic's Notebook)

• No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. (The Second Neurotic's Notebook)

• Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show. (The Second Neurotic's Notebook)

McLendon, Sibul

• Break the anger habit. It is a waste of valuable energy to rail against adverse events. Stuff happens. Get over it and move on. ("Do You Have a Solid Foundation?" in The Power to Endure)

McMahon, Tim

• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.

McMurty, Larry

• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

McNally, David

• What is life?
  Life is a gift ... accept it
  Life is an adventure ... dare it
  Life is a mystery ... unfold it
  Life is a game ... play it
  Life is a struggle ... face it
  Life is beauty ... praise it
  Life is a puzzle ... solve it
  Life is opportunity ... take it
  Life is sorrowful ... experience it
  Life is a song ... sing it
  Life is a goal ... achieve it
  Life is a mission ... fulfill it" (Taken from Even Eagles Need a Push)

Mcpherson, Rene

• You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

McWilliams, Peter

• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on Earth. So what the hell, leap!

Mead, Margaret

• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. (Redbook Nov. 1978)

• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

• I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.

• It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. (Redbook, 1978)

• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

• Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.

• We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Mecchi, Irene, Johnathan Roberts, and Linda Woolverton

• Never run away from the past, face it and learn from it. (The Lion King)

Medawar, Peter

• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

Medwed, Sydney

• To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, and happy and successful thoughts twenty-four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all.

Megiveron, Gene E.

• To stand still is to lose,
  To move is to gain,
  To change is to grow.

Meir, Golda

• I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

• Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Mejia, Michael A.

• Love is not limited by convenience; it is the inconvenient times that make you realize how much you are truly loved.

Melbourne, William Lamb

• Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. (in The Young Melbourne by Cecil)

Melchart, Harold B.

• Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melcher, Frederic

• Book Week brings us together to talk about books and reading and, out of our knowledge and love of books, to put the cause of children's reading squarely before the whole community and, community by community, across the whole nation. For a great nation is a reading nation.

Meldrum, A. B. (Dr.)

• Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the everlasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Melenson, Julie

• It's better to be thought of as a fool and to surprise people once in a while then to be thought of as a brain and to let people down when they need you the most.

Mello, Anthony de

• These things will destroy the human race:
  politics without principle,
  progress without compassion,
  wealth without work,
  learning without silence,
  religion without fearlessness
  and worship without awareness.

• To a disciple who was forever complaining about others the Master said, "If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth."

Meltzer, David

• Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

Melville, Herman

• It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Mencius

• Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.

• If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?

• Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

• The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart.

Mencken, H. L.

• For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

• There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Mercier, Desire-Joseph

• We must not only give what we have; we must also give what we are.

Merton, Thomas

• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

• The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

• Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within. (No Man an Island)

• Peace is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

• Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous...

• When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash--at such times the wawakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness", the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance.

• When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us. (No Man Is an Island)

Metcalf, James J.

• God bless you with the courage to
  Pursue each noble quest
  And grant this golden Yule will be
  By far your happiest. ("This Christmas Day")

Metternich, Clemens Wenzel Lothar, Furst von

• It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overleap them.

Metych, Michelle

• If you aren't happy, you aren't really living. People say you should judge whether or not you're alive by whether or not you're breathing, but I disagree with that. I think, in order to judge if you are truly alive, you must look at the moments in your life that have taken your breath away. (Beloit Daily News November 21, 2001)

Meyer, Bill

• Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

Meyer, Paul J.

• Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meynell, Esther

• Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books--they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

Michelangelo

• The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

• I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

• Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michener, James

• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

• The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Michnik, Adam

• Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

The Midrash

• Birth and death are like ships: why do we rejoice over a ship setting out on a journey when we know not the she may encounter on the seas? We should rejoice when the ship returns safely to the port.

• Many candles can be kindled from one candle without dimminishing it.

Mikes, George

• Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

Milgram, Stanley

• The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milius, John

• A man's got to know his limitations. (Magnum Force)

Mill, John Stuart

• All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

• If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. (On Liberty)

• The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

• Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of... They are more in need of originality, the less they are conscious of the want. (On Liberty)

• There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Millar, Susanne

• If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

• My heart is warm with the friend I make,
  And better friends I'll not be knowing;
  Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
  No matter where it's going. ("Travel" Second April)

• Not Truth, but Faith, it is
  That keeps the world alive. {"Interim" Renascence)

Miller, Arthur

• The job is to ask questions--it always was--and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Miller, Dennis

• Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

Miller, Erynn

• It takes a lot of time, understanding, and trust to gain a close friendship with someone. My friends are my most precious asset.

Miller, Harlan

• I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. (Better Homes and Gardens)

• The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves. (Better Homes and Gardens)

• Probably the reason we al go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words. (Better Homes and Gardens)

Miller, Henry

• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. ("The Absolute Collective" The Wisdom of the Heart)

• The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto itself.

• The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.

• The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way. (The Wisdom of the Heart)

• True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. (The Time of Assassins)

• Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring… ("Reflections on Writing" The Wisdom of the Heart)

Miller, Joaquin

• All honor to him who shall win the prize,'
  The world has cried for a thousand years;
  But to him who tries and fails and dies,
  I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, John H.

• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Miller, John W.

• Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor. (The Christian Way)

Miller, Laura

• Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people--if only they'd stop writing. (from a salon.com review of the movie Finding Forrester)

Miller, Samuel Howard

• It is the rare person who, looking back over his life and seeing what he has done to it, hasn't sighed for a chance to redeem what he has cheaply used or carelessly ruined. If only somehow, somewhere, there was a way to live again the days we have darkened with our blind haste - the innumerable occasions when our indifference trod on all the pearls of God's graciousness; the times when our pride, or our fear, or our meanness poured the acid of contempt over the fair countenance of another's soul! If this grace were ours, how we would leap to the chance! (The Life of the Soul)

Miller, William R.

• There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.

Mills, J. Patrick

• The fool's mind wanders, the wise mind wonders.

Mills, Joy

• There are two kinds of people in the world: the Givers and the Takers.
  The difference between the two is that the Takers eat well,
  and the Givers sleep well at night.

Milne, A. A.

• If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

• Organizating is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's not all mixed up.

• Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you. (Winnie the Pooh)

• When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. (The House at Pooh Corner)

• You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

Milton, John

• Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. (Aeropagitica)

• Books are not dead things but do contain a potency of life ... as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a fial the purest extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

• He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

• None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

Mingus, Charles

• Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird--that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity. (To Reveal the Creator)

• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Minnelli, Liza

• Reality is something you rise above.

Minnigh, Leo D.

• Let your thoughts meander towards a sea of ideas.

Miss Piggy

• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Mistral, Garbriela

• Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

Mitchell, Maria

• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. (in Maria Mitchell by Kendall)

Mitchell, Ruby Lee

• Carol singing, church bells ringing,
  Once more Christmastime is here.
  Children laughing, grownups beaming,
  Hearts are warm with Christmas cheer. ("It's Christmas Time")

Mitchell, S. Weir

• Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Mitford, Mary Russell

• Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius--versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential. (in The Life of Mary Russell Mitford by L'Estrange)

Mizner, Wilson

• A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

• I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

• I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Mohammed

• Patience is the key to contentment.

• Riches are not from abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.

• To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.

Molano, Alfredo

• The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter.

Moliere

• It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

• Our minds need relaxation and give way
  Unless we mix with work a little play. (The School for Husbands)

Molte, Helmuth Johannes Ludwig, Graf von

• First ponder, then dare.

Montagu, Mary Wortley (Lady)

• I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

• There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Montaigne, Michel de

• Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment. ("Of custom" Essays)

• I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ("Of the Education of Children" Essays)

• I quote others only the better to express myself.

• No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

• Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

• The soul that has no established aim loses itself. ("Of Idleness" Essays)

• There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. ("Of Repentance" Essays)

Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de

• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

Montessori, Maria

• The first idea that the child must acquire in order to be actively disciplined is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

• The greatest sign of success for a teacher ... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." (The Absorbent Mind)

Moody, Dwight Lyman

• I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I've met.

• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining--they just shine.

Moody, Roy E.

• The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.

Moore, George

• The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under.

Moore, Henry

• I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle... In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing--not perfect.

• The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Moore, Marianne

• The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

• Originality is ... a by-product of sincerity. ("Marianne Moore Speaks" in Vogue, 1963)

Moore, Mary Tyler

• Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

• You can't be brave if you've had only wonderful things happen to you.

Moore, Rickie

• Tolerate, change, or be grateful.

Moore, Virginia

• True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others. (Virginia is a State of Mind)

Moos, N. H.

• The only luck or limitations is in your own mind.

Morales, Baltasar Gracián y

• Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. (The Worldly Art of Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle)

More, Hannah

• Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. ("Christianity a Practical Principle" Practical Piety)

Morgan, Charles Langbridge

• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Morgan, Ellen V.

• Christmas is the time for looking ahead courageously through the gates of the swiftly approaching new year ... of resolving that the coming months will reflect a kinder, more forgiving and less heedless person than mirrored in the past. ("Christmas is the Time")

Morgan, John Pierpont

• The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, Murray

• But each [northwest] city remains, to most of its citizens, a great place to live in. Residents of Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver envy their friends who go on trips, but we feel sorry for those who must move away. (The Northwest Corner)

Morgan, Robin

• Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully-wild, generous, drastic-in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

Morley, Christopher

• Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. (Inward Ho!)

• The enemies of the truth are always awfully nice.

• If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

• Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

• People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.

Morley, John

• The best guarantee for justice in public dealings is the participation in their own government of the people most likely to suffer from injustice. (On Compromise)

• You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. (Rousseau)

Morrison, John A.

• Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

Morrissey, Mary Manin

• Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

• Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

Morse, Madeline

• Let Christmas not become a thing
  Merely of merchant's trafficking,
  Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
  And surface pleasure, but beneath
  The childish glamour, let us find
  Nourishment for heart and mind.
  Let us follow kinder ways
  Through our teeming human maze,
  And help the age of peace to come. (Dairymen's League News)

Mortman, Doris

• Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Mosely-Braun, Carol

• Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Moses, Anna Mary Robertson ("Grandma")

• I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done, and I am satisfied with it.

• A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Mother Teresa

• Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

• Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.

• I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

• I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

• I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

• If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

• If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

• If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

• In ... silence we find a new energy and a real unity. God's energy becomes our, allowing us to perform things well.

• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

• Joy is very infectious; therefore, be always full of joy.

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

• Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

• Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile--smile five times a day to someone you don't really want to smile at all--do it for peace. So let us radiate the peace of God and so light his light.

• Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.

• Silence gives us a new way of looking at something.

• Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.

• We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.

• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

• We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

• Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Mott, Lucretia

• We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

Mousa, Faraq

• Focus should be to encourage and develop creativity in all children without the ultimate goal begin to make all children inventors, but rather to develop a future generation of critical thinkers.

Moustakas, Clark

• Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.

Muir, John

• The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thought and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains.

• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

• Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

Mukhejee, Bharati

• What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? ("Buried Lives" The Middleman)

Muller, Robert

• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

Muller, Wayne

• What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule... This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love. (How, Then, Shall We Live?)

Mulock, Dinah

• Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are--chaff and grain together--certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away...

Mumford, Lewis

• It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. (The Transformation of Man)

• Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it arises out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further developments. ("The Way and the Life" The Conduct of Life)

Munger, Thorton T.

• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

• Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise;
  for goodness, and we are not good;
  for overcoming evil, and evil remains;
  for patience and sympathy and love,
  and we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish.
  We are keyed not to attainment,
  but to the struggle toward it.

Munthe

• What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever.

Murdoch, Iris

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

Murdoch, Rupert

• In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example--and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Murdock, Mike

• Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

• You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create. (101 Wisdom Keys)

Murphy, Mariane Espinosa

• Often the best way to win is to forget to keep score.

Murphy, Thomas P.

• Minutes are worth more than money. Spend them wisely.

Murray, W. H.

• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Murrow, Edward R.

• To be persuasive, one must be believable.
  To be believable, we must be credible.
  To be credible, we must be truthful.

Muste, A. J.

• There is no way to peace, peace is the way.

• Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it. ("Pacifism and Class War" in The World Tomorrow, Sept. 1928)

Myer, Paul

• Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated becomes an attitude realized. (in Developing the Leader Within You by Maxwell)

Myers, George

• God is not nearly as concerned with our getting what we want as He is with our getting him.

Myhrvold, Nathan

• Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith. (in "The Microsoft Provocateur" by Auletta New Yorker)

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