TCODS - Tillamook County Outdoor School
Moses' Collection of Quotations
Perseverance, Completing a Task, Overcoming
"Be like
a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." Josh Billings
Do the dreaded job first, so you'll have the rest of the day to look forward to!
"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire." Arab proverb
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." Japanese Proverb
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller
"Never, never, never give up." Winston Churchill
Twice General McArthur was refused admission to West Point. But the third time he was accepted, and marched into the history books. Rudyard Kipling received a rejection letter from the San Francisco Examiner saying, "Sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language." After a lifetime of defeats, at 62, Winston Churchill became one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers. Enrico Caruso's music teacher told him he had "no voice at all and couldn't sing," Einstein's schoolteachers described him as, "mentally slow, unsociable and adrift in his foolish dreams." By age 46, Beethoven was completely deaf, yet he wrote 5 of his greatest symphonies without hearing a note. (Taken from On the Right Note, November 16, ?)
"You must find a way or make one." Hannibal