Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
Henry Ward Beecher
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness. JEFFREY FRY No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions." Henry Ward Beecher HENRY WARD BEECHER To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every
day alike. Let every man be full... BIBLE The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beech... HENRY WARD BEECHER We always live in the tommorow,which never comes and which cannot come; it is impossible. That which... OSHO The foundation of every great year begins with January first. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he ... AMBROSE BIERCE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to... AMIT RAY Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, a... OG MANDINO You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL The role we can play every day, if we try, is to take the whole experience of every day and shape it... JOHN HAY WHITNEY Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t... EMILY GIFFIN You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD Once the moon gets to be full somebody - some man or other - goes up every day and slices bits of on... RICHARD ADAMS Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great... RUSSEL H. CONWELL Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let... DAN WEBSTER He looked around. The room, a few suitcases, some belongings, a handful of well-read books— a man ... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They sai... ANON. The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go... GEORGE MACDONALD Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner... NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in ... NICOLAS CHAMFORT The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to ou... FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in som... LEO TOLSTOY The playboy is not necessarily a man who has many girlfriends, or a man who has many women, or a man... C. JOYBELL C. This team has the potential to win more medals and have more success than the one in Salt Lake. We s... ERIC HEIDEN Let me let you in on a secret. I do plan to be on the podium with President Clinton when she's i... TIM KAINE She has her helmet, shield and sword. Does she finish him or take pity on the gutless thing before h... DONNA LYNN HOPE I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child. BIG BOI Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I once felt all that kind of anger, which a man ought to feel, against the mean principles that are ... THOMAS PAINE All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON We have to face the hard reality that the elections cannot be held on January 8th and that the neces... MAX MATHURIN In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Here are two facts that should not both be true: - There is sufficient food produced in the wo... MICHAEL DORRIS Every step you take has a 50% chance to succeed or end up in failure, and if our success is build on... C. LIDE SANGTAM the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state ... SAMUEL JOHNSON ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen... RAYMOND E. FEIST First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that posi... KRISTIN HUNTER Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm, be focused, grateful f... TOM ALTHOUSE But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where... BIBLE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every da... MICHAEL ENDE Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY At the end of the day, I'm a man. DANIEL CORMIER I know his work can be extravagant, ... But the first track on 'Want One' is one of the most astonis... DAVID GRAY Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk u... RALPH WALDO EMERSON There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom
in the first and chiefest place, ... EURIPIDES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. If I was in Talon, I would be the one in charge, I'd be the one calling the shots. I wouldn't have t... JULIE KAGAWA Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru w... SIVANANDA SARASWATI Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT If one wants to start with the proposition that it's obviously in their (Conservatives') advantage t... BRUCE ANDERSON This is the performance of his life. If he does not hit his mark on the first take and get the jury ... BRIAN WICE The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a... HOWARD MORLEY I take the blame for this one. Being a senior, I should be able to do more. . . . I'm not blaming it... HASSAN ADAMS I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... Hold on to your past, but only hold on to the things most precious to you. Let go of those that aren... C. LIDE SANGTAM It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits. THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Do you know what I remember? When [my father] read to me. Stupid things, dragons and heroes. He woul... AVELINE VALEN Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the arch... GEORGE D. BOARDMAN A noble maiden must convey dignity and chastity without appearing to think about either one. Let com... TAMORA PIERCE And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year t... C.S. LEWIS It's cool to deal in the good times, but let me see you face the bad times. Let me see how you take ... DAVID ORTIZ It is not okay to ‘live and let live,’ to let ‘bygones be bygones,’ to ‘forgive and forget... BEVERLY ENGEL Did I think he was “the one?” Iʼll never know. At sixteen, everyone is “the one. K.A. TUCKER People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the ... GEORGE ORWELL But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a... CHARLES M. SCHWAB The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past. BUD SELIG It is impossible to credit one gender with every good and perfect gift without slighting the other. ... JAMES C. DOBSON We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, an... SYDNEY SMITH Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; an... JEFFREY EUGENIDES We are all the children in gods garden
Created to watch over with his all seeing eye
Every saint has... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in eve... RAINER MARIA RILKE And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his no... BIBLE Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ... C. JOYBELL C.
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a complex tool. And he that inve... HENRY WARD BEECHER How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us. HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and t... HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and th... HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. HENRY WARD BEECHER Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. HENRY WARD BEECHER He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may hav... HENRY WARD BEECHER Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice HENRY WARD BEECHER Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. HENRY WARD BEECHER The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. HENRY WARD BEECHER Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. HENRY WARD BEECHER Do not be afraid of defeat. you are never so near victory as when defeated in a good cause HENRY WARD BEECHER The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qua... HENRY WARD BEECHER The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the othe... HENRY WARD BEECHER A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. HENRY WARD BEECHER Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. HENRY WARD BEECHER The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. HENRY WARD BEECHER Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. HENRY WARD BEECHER The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. HENRY WARD BEECHER It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he ... HENRY WARD BEECHER There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. HENRY WARD BEECHER The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble o... HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. HENRY WARD BEECHER Faith is spiritualized imagination. HENRY WARD BEECHER The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea... HENRY WARD BEECHER The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. HENRY WARD BEECHER To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri... HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally ... HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o... HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse... HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo... HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h... HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ... HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of
shadows. HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th... HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and
animals. Some seem to smile; some hav... HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers,
we shall never have a garden withou... HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou... HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ... HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y... HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds... HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ... HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is! HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things... HENRY WARD BEECHER