TCODS - Tillamook County Outdoor School
Moses' Collection of Quotations
Life's Challenges, Bringing Good Out of Difficulty, Making Mistakes, Adversity
Anybody who doesn't make mistakes can't be very busy.
"But what if I fail of my purpose here It is but to keep the nerves at a strain, To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And, baffled, get up and begin again." Robert Browning
"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." Abraham Lincoln
Dig a well from which another may draw.
"Every path has its puddle." English proverb
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward.
"From every cut springs new growth." Unknown
"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity." John D. Rockefeller
If you removed the rocks, the creek would lose its song.
"Life is
like playing a violin in public and learning the intrument as one goes on."
Samuel Butler
"Life is not easy for any for us." Marie Curie
"Nobody is prefect." Julie Ingram
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." H. T. Leslie
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
The roots grow deep when the winds blow strong.
"There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last." Jules Renard
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." Cheri Widman (Shared by Oops.)
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.
"When faced with adversity, people with solid values and strong character do not abandon their integrity, sensitivity, and perspective on life." Simon Chester, survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Gleiwitz camps