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Quotes:

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill

"The best use of life is to invest it in something which will outlast life." William James

"Public sentiment will come to be, that the man who dies rich dies disgraced." Andrew Carnegie

The most important things in life aren't things.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie

The distance a person goes is not as important as the direction.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. -- Booker T. Washington

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), Writer and lecturer

"You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails." - Unknown

"Training teaches people to follow prescriptions. Education teaches people to make choices." - Nido Qubein

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." – Benjamin Franklin

"If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around." -- Jim Rohn

"Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears." – Brian Tracy

When you clench your first, no one can put anything in your hand. – Alex Haley

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. --William Butler Yeats

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw

"Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." – Grandma Moses

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done." -- Malcolm Forbes

"No one has ever become poor by giving." - Anne Frank

For what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.-- Arthur Ashe

Live to learn and you will learn to live. - Portuguese Proverb

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. -The Bible, Proverbs 3:27

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it - drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in

charity and it overflows love. - John Ruskin

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.

- Henry Ward Beecher

If you think education is expensive - try ignorance. - Derek Bok, President, Harvard University

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. -Leo Buscaglia

"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others. - -Jonathon Swift

God gives, but man must open his hand. -- German Proverb

He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget. -- Talmud

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

"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." -- Mother Teresa

"A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will be refreshed." -- Proverbs 11:25

"Apart from the ballot box, philanthropy presents the one opportunity the individual has to express his meaningful choice over the direction in which our society will progress." -- George G. Kirstein

Douglas M. Lawson, Ph.D., renowned fundraising consultant, said this in a particularly appropriate fashion: "In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern."

"I've always felt that when people hold their hands out to people who have less then they do, they

become the beneficiaries - intellectually, spiritually or materially." --Paul Newman

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