SYD ARTHUR LICIT

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

1. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.
2. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
3. Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
4. Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
5. Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
6. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
7. If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don’t make it a leg.
8. I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
9. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
10. My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
11. The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
12. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
13. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
14. To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.
15. When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
16. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
17. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
18. I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
19. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
20. I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
21. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
22. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

JOHN WOODEN

1. Be quick, but don’t hurry.
2. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
3. Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
4. It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
5. Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.
6. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
7. You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
8. It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
9. Consider the rights of others before your own feelings and the feelings of others before your own rights.
10. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
11. Always try to be better today than you were yesterday.