My Top Ten Historic Quotes from 2009
Going though notes from this year, there were a few quotes that made me stop, consider, and think. Here are a handful of favorites.
1-”You are remembered for the rules you break.” Douglas MacArthur
2-”If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas A. Edison
3-”99% of who we are is invisible.” -Buckminster Fuller
4-”He was as great as a man can be without morality.” Alexis de Tocqueville
5-”Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.” Edison
6-”We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.” -Dallas Willard
7-”The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” Thomas Jefferson
8-”Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” Thomas A. Edison
9-”Life is to entered upon with courage.” Alexis de Tocqueville
2-”If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” Thomas A. Edison
3-”99% of who we are is invisible.” -Buckminster Fuller
4-”He was as great as a man can be without morality.” Alexis de Tocqueville
5-”Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.” Edison
6-”We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.” -Dallas Willard
7-”The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” Thomas Jefferson
8-”Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” Thomas A. Edison
9-”Life is to entered upon with courage.” Alexis de Tocqueville
