Quotes to guess

The following are quotes that I presented to my speech and debate class today. There are no authors listed. I gave them the quotes first to see if they could guess any authors and then I gave them a list, in alphabetical order, of the authors so that they could try and match them up. If you are interested, see if you can guess who said the quote. I will post the list of authors tomorrow. And the answers tomorrow night or the next day. Good luck and DO NOT CHEAT!

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward."

"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."

"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know."

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."

"I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds.

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even...knowledge, was foolproof."

"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

"He always ate his meals alone reading out of a book open in front of him. His library was small but well chosen. He loved books: books are cold but sure friends."

The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things or make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things.

“I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.”

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"When events are moving at hurricane speed and when scenes change with baffling frequency, it would be disastrous to lose that flexibility of mind in dealing with new situations... which is the essential counterpart of a consistent and unswerving purpose."

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”