Anthony J. D'Angelo
Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to grow.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo~
If you have time to whine and complain about something
then you have the time to do something about it.
~Anthony J. D'Angelo~
Andrew DaPassano
Empowerment gives birth to responsibility;
this responsibility is to serve.
We need to serve where we find ourselves;
wherever we are.
You don't need to identify with service,
or speak of it.
Better just to guide,
love and care.
Silence is a great aid in service;
the more you are able to listen,
the greater help you can be --
energy escapes when you talk.
And when you have achieved serenity,
you will benefit others by your presence.
When your inner noise is silenced,
you will have a quick,
clear perspective on all human situations;
you will be able to reach out effectively
in generosity and compassion.
~Andrew DaPassano~
Clarence Darrow
Common experience shows how much rarer
is moral courage than physical bravery.
A thousand men will march to the mouth
of the cannon where one man
will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
~Clarence Darrow~
You can only protect your liberties in this world
by protecting the other man's freedom.
You can only be free if I am free.
~Clarence Seward Darrow~
Charles Robert Darwin
It is not the strongest
of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent;
it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
~Charles Robert Darwin~
Robert Dash
All gardens are a form of autobiography.
~Robert Dash~
Elmer Holmes Davis
This will remain the land of the free
only so long as it is the home of the brave.
~Elmer Holmes Davis~
William Hersey Davis
The circumstances amid which you live
determine your reputation;
The truth you believe
determines your character.
Reputation is what
you are supposed to be;
Character is what you are....
Reputation is what you have
when you come to a new community;
Character is what you have
when you go away.
Your reputation is made in a moment;
Your character is built in a lifetime...
Reputation is what men
say about you on your tombstone;
Character is what the angels
say about you before the throne of God.
~William Hersey Davis~
Dorothy Day
We plant seeds that will flower
as results in our lives,
so best to remove the weeds of
anger, avarice, envy, and doubt,
that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
~Dorothy Day~
Michael DeBakey
Success
is achievable
without public recognition,
and the world has many
unsung heroes.
The teacher who inspires you
to pursue your education
to your ultimate ability
is a success.
The parents who taught you
the noblest human principles
are a success.
The coach who shows you
the importance of teamwork
is a success.
The spiritual leader
who instills in you
spiritual values and faith
is a success.
The relatives, friends, and neighbors
with whom you develop
a reciprocal relationship
of respect and support --
they, too, are successes.
The most menial workers
can properly consider themselves
successful if they perform their best
and if the product of their work
is of service to humanity.
~Michael DeBakey~
Real
success requires respect for
and faithfulness to the highest human values --
honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity,
compassion, humility, courage,
personal responsibility, courtesy,
and human service.
~Michael DeBakey~
Eugene V. Debs
I
have no country to fight for;
my country is the earth,
and I am a citizen of the world.
~Eugene V. Debs~
When great changes occur in history,
when great principles are involved,
as a rule the majority are wrong.
The minority are right.
~Eugene V. Debs~
Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Absence is to love
what wind is to fire;
it extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.
~Comte DeBussy-Rabutin~
Ruth St. Denis
I see dance being used as
communication between body and soul,
to express what is too deep
to find for words.
~Ruth St. Denis~
Max Depree
We cannot become what we need to be
by remaining what we are.
~Max Depree~
Descartes
The reading of all good books
is like conversation with the finest men
of past centuries.
~Descartes~
Bernadette Devlin
To gain that which is worth having,
it may be necessary to lose everything else.
~Bernadette Devlin~
John Dewey
Failure is instructive.
The person who really thinks
learns quite as much from his failures
as from his successes.
~John Dewey~
Charles Dickens
Pride
is one of the seven deadly sins;
but it cannot be the pride of
a mother in her children,
for that is a compound
of two cardinal virtues --
faith and hope.
~Charles Dickens~
Have
a heart that never hardens,
and a temper that never tires,
and a touch that never hurts.
~Charles Dickens~
The whole difference between construction
and creation is exactly this:
that a thing constructed can only be loved
after it is constructed;
but a thing created is loved before it exists.
~Charles Dickens~
Emily Dickinson
Some
keep the Sabbath going to Church,
I keep it staying at Home --
With a bobolink for a Chorister,
And an Orchard, for a Dome.
~Emily Dickinson~
If
I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
~Emily Dickinson~
"Hope" is the thing with
feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --
~Emily Dickinson~
Joan Didion
I write entirely to find out
what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at,
what I see and what it means.
What I want and what I fear.
~Joan Didion~
John G. Diefenbaker
Freedom is the right to be wrong,
not the right to do wrong.
~John G. Diefenbaker~
Marlene Dietrich
I love quotations because it is a joy
to find thoughts one might have,
beautifully expressed with much authority
by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
~Marlene Dietrich~
Isak Dinesen
God
made the world round
so we would never be able
to see too far down the road.
~Isak Dinesen~
Walt Disney
People look at you and me to see
what they are supposed to be.
And, if we don't disappoint them,
maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.
~Walt Disney~
The
greatest good you can do for another
is not just share your riches,
but reveal to them their own.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
Nurture
your minds with great thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
Never
apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
We
are all born for love.
It is the principle of existence,
and its only end.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
Time
is precious,
but truth is more precious than time.
~Benjamin Disraeli~
One of the hardest things in this world
is to admit you are wrong.
And nothing is more helpful
in resolving a situation
than its frank admission.
~Benjamin Disreali~
E. L. Doctorow
Good writing is supposed to evoke
sensation in the reader --
not the fact that it is raining,
but the feeling of being rained upon.
~E. L. Doctorow~
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson....Lewis Carroll
When you are describing,
A shape, or sound, or tint;
Don't state the matter plainly,
But put it in a hint;
And learn to look at all things,
With a sort of mental squint.
~Charles Lutwidge Dodgson....Lewis Carroll~
Bob Dole
When it's all over,
it's not who you were. . .
it's whether you made a difference.
~Bob Dole~
John Donne
What
if this present were the world's last night?
~John Donne~
More
than kisses, letters mingle souls.
~John Donne~
Reason
is our soul's left hand,
Faith her right.
~John Donne~
No
man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of continent,
a part of the main.
~John Donne~
There
is nothing that God hath established
in a constant course of nature,
and which therefore is done every day,
but would seem a Miracle,
and exercise our admiration,
if it were done but once.
~John Donne~
Michael Dorris
At different stages in our lives,
the signs of love may vary:
dependence, attraction,
contentment, worry, loyalty, grief,
but at heart the source
is always the same.
Human beings have the rare capacity
to connect with each other,
against all odds.
~Michael Dorris~
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It is not the brains that matter most,
but that which guides them --
the character, the heart,
generous qualities,
progressive ideas.
~Fyodor Dostoyevsky~
Frederick Douglass
Where
our bread is concerned,
it is a material matter.
Where our neighbor's bread
is concerned,
it is a spiritual matter.
Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom,
and deprecate agitation,
are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground,
they want rain without thunder and lightning.
~Frederick Douglass~
The whole history of the progress
of human liberty shows that
all concessions yet made
to her august claims
have been born of earnest struggle. . .
If there is no struggle,
there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom,
and yet deprecate agitation,
are men who want crops
without plowing up the ground,
they want rain without thunder and lightning.
They want the ocean without
the awful roar of its many waters.
~Frederick Douglass~
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Character isn't inherited.
One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts,
thought by thought, action by action.
If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession
of the mind, they become self-forged chains.
~Helen Gahagan Douglas~
Hugh Downs
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances,
but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
~Hugh Downs~
Sir Francis Drake
There must be a beginning of any great matter,
but the continuing unto the end until it be
thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
~Sir Francis Drake~
Elizabeth Drew
It takes two to write a letter
as much as it takes two to
make a quarrel.
~Elizabeth Drew~
Steve Droke
Knowledge is power
and enthusiasm pulls the switch.
~Steve Droke~
Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
~Peter Drucker~
Unless commitment is made,
there are only promises and hopes...
but no plans.
~Peter Drucker~
Henry Drummond
You
will find as you look back upon your life
that the moments when you have really lived,
are the moments when you have done things
in a spirit of love.
~Henry Drummond~
Therefore
keep in the midst of life.
Do not isolate yourself.
Be among men and things,
and among troubles,
and difficulties,
and obstacles.
~Henry Drummond~
John Dryden
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
~John Dryden~
Charles Du Bos
The important thing is this:
to be able at any moment
to sacrifice what we are for
what we could become.
~Charles Du Bos~
Carol Duerksen
Christmas happens everywhere
every time someone reaches out
to touch another life with love.
~Carol Duerksen~
Isadore Duncan
Dancing:
The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.
~Isadore Duncan~
Wayne W. Dyer
Judgments
prevent us from seeing the good
that lies beyond appearances.
~ Wayne W. Dyer~
It
is impossible for you to be
angry and laugh at the same time.
Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive
and you have the power to choose either.
~Wayne W. Dyer~
Stop
acting as if life is a rehearsal.
Live this day as if it were your last.
The past is over and gone.
The future is not guaranteed.
~Wayne W. Dyer~
'When
I chased after money,
I never had enough.
When I got my life on purpose
and focused on giving of myself
and everything
that arrived into my life,
then I was prosperous.
~Wayne W. Dyer~
You cannot be lonely
if you like the person you're alone with.
~Wayne W. Dyer~
John Dykes
Our deeds follow us,
and what we have been
makes us what we are.
~John Dykes~
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