PROVERBS AND QUOTATIONS, NINTH YEAR CYCLE
 

SECOND SEMESTER

Week One. Theme:  Justice

101.      "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  Martin Luther King, Jr.

102.      "In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."  Albert Einstein

103.      "He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much:  and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much."  Luke 16:10

104.      "In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case."  African proverb from Ru'anda-Urundi

105.      "Justice, sir, is the greatest interest of man on earth."  Daniel Webster

 

Week Two. Theme:  Justice/Injustice

 

106.      "That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."  Henry George, The Land Question

107.      "Delay of justice is injustice."  Landor

108.      "He who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decide justly, cannot be considered just."  Seneca

109.      "We must be constantly vigilant against the attacks of intolerance and injustice."  Franklin Delano Roosevelt

110.      "There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice."  Robert G. Ingersoll

 

Week Three. Theme:  Justice/Injustice

 

111.      "He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it."  Plato

112.      "A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."  Seneca

113.      "The only protection against injustice in man is power—physical, financial, and scientific." Marcus Garvey

114.      "Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education." Julian Bond

115.      "The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous." James H. Cone

 

Week Four. Theme:  Valentine’s Day/love

 

116.      "In real love you want the other person's good.  In romantic love you want the other person."  Margaret Anderson

117.      "Love is always an active concern for the growth and aliveness of the one we love."  Erich Fromm

118.      "Where there is no love, put love, and you will find love."  St. John of the Cross

119.      "Love is the will to fellowship."  Eric Sauer

120.      "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.  But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute—and it's longer than any hour.  That's relativity."  Albert Einstein

 

Week Five. Theme:  Love/Goals

 

121.      "Love is of man's life / A thing apart. / 'Tis woman's whole existence."  Lord Byron

122.      "If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."  Henry Kissinger

123.      "Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well.  Then youth will be happy, elders will be without regret, and life will be a beautiful success."  Louisa May Alcott

124.      "Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live."  Fyodor Dostoevsky

125.      "Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us.  They are absolutely essential to keeping us alive."  Robert H. Schuller

 

Week Six. Theme: Goals

 

126.      "To reach a long term goal requires some short term discipline."  Larry Burkett

127.      "If you are not sure where you are going, you're liable to end up someplace else."  Robert F. Mager

128.      "When you don't know what you want, you often end up where you don't want to be." Bob Greene

129.      "No one ever accomplishes anything of consequence without a goal.  Goal setting is the strongest human force for self-motivation."  Paul Myer

130.      "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.  That is dedication."  Cecil B. De Mille

 

Week Seven. Theme:  Goals

 

131.      "I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." Langston Hughes

132.      "The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is certainly a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture." Benjamin E. Mays

133.      "You can never plan the future by the past."  Edmund Burke

134.      "There is nothing in the world really beneficial, that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well directed pursuit."  Edmund Burke

135.      "There is nothing that God has judged good for us, that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world."  Edmund Burke

 

Week Eight. Theme:  Goals

 

136.      "The definition of success is setting goals and achieving them."  Susan Schenkel

137.      "Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours."  Doug Larson

138.      "To live only for some future goal is shallow.  It's the sides of the mountains that support life, not the top."  Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

139.      "...The high school student is nagged until he declares what he wants to do when he grows up.  The [teenager] who knows that much about himself [or herself] is one in a thousand.  The rest pretend they know; and from that moment are channeled toward a life which they may not discover to be the wrong one until they are middle-aged."  Mark Van Doren, Liberal Education

140.      "Life is sustained by tension between where we are now and where we want to be—some goal worth struggling for." Stephen R. Covey

 

Week Nine. Theme: Goals/Perseverance

 

141.      “What is a vision? It is a compelling image of an achievable future.” Laura Berman Fortgang

142.      “You have to be first, best, or different.”  Loretta Lynn

143.      “Virtually every important action in life involves educated guesswork.  Too few chances reliably translate into too few victories.” Thomas W. Hazlett

144.      "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"  Robert Louis Stevenson

145.      "Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace like the ticking of a clock during a thunderstorm."  Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Week Ten. Theme: Fear/Courage/Comfort/Failure

 

146.      "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."  Robert Louis Stevenson

147.      "We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware."  Julia Moss Seton

148.       “One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.” Henry Ford

149.      “The only time you don’t want to fail is the last time you try.” Charles F. Kettering

150.      "Being defeated is often a temporary condition.  Giving up is what makes it permanent."  Marilyn vos Savant

 

Week Eleven. Theme:  Freedom, Easter

 

151.      "There are two freedoms:  the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought."  Charles Kingsley

152.      "You can only make men free when they are inwardly bound by their own sense of responsibility."  William E. Hocking

153.      "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too."  W. Somerset Maugham  [Compare Benjamin Franklin's statement on liberty]

154.      "I am the resurrection and the life:  he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:  and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die."  John 11:25-26

155.      "Good Friday must give way to the triumphant music of Easter."  Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Week Twelve. Theme:  Liberty

 

156.      "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  Benjamin Franklin  [Compare W. Somerset Maugham's statement on freedom]

157.      "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."  Burke

158.      "Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties."  Milton

159.      "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others."  William Allen White

160.      "The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of government power."  Woodrow Wilson

 

Week Thirteen. Theme:  National Day of Prayer [First Thursday in May]

 

161.      "Study without prayer is atheism; and prayer without study is presumption."  Bishop Sanderson

162.      "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."  Mahatma Gandhi

163.      "There is nothing so small but that we honor God by asking him guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our hands."  John Ruskin

164.      "Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God."  T. J. Bach

165.      "Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers."  Austin O'Malley

 

 

Week Fourteen. Theme:  National Day of Prayer/Freedom

 

166.      "Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."  Victor Hugo

167.      "I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer."  Mark Twain

168.      "Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man."  Thomas Carlyle

169.      "When a person is at his wits' end, it is not a cowardly thing to pray.  It is the only way to get into touch with reality."  Oswald Chambers

170.      "It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a Bible-reading people.  The principles of the Bible are the groundwork of human freedom."  Horace Greeley

 

Week Fifteen. Theme:  Liberty/Learning

 

171.      "A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district,—all studied and appreciated as they merit,—are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty."  Benjamin Franklin

172.      "Learning is not attained by chance.  It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."  Abigail Adams

173.      "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."  Baltimore Oriole clubhouse sign

174.      "As a field, however fertile, cannot be fruitful without cultivation, neither can a mind without learning."  Cicero

175.      "Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn."  Benjamin Franklin

 

Week Sixteen. Theme:  Learning

 

176.      "He who learns and makes no use of his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books."  Saadi

177.      "Give us the tools to learn and we will give you progress."  Socrates

178.      "He who learns by Finding Out/has sevenfold/The Skill of him who learned by Being Told."  Arthur Guiterman

179.      "Personally I am always ready to learn, although I don't always like being taught." Winston Churchill

180.      "He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning."  Danish proverb