When the first Superman movie came out
I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" …
My answer was that a hero is someone
who commits a courageous action
without considering the consequences…
Now my definition is completely different.
I think a hero is an ordinary individual
who finds strength to persevere
and endure in spite of
overwhelming obstacles.
~Christopher Reeve~

Good ideas are not adopted automatically.
They must be driven into practice
with courageous patience.
~Admiral Hyman Rickover~

Jean Paul Richter

A man never discloses his own character 
so clearly as when he describes another's. 
~Jean Paul Richter~

In later life, as in earlier, 
only a few persons influence 
the formation of our character; 
the multitude pass us by 
like a distant army. 
One friend, one teacher, one beloved, 
one club, one dining table, one work table 
are the means by which one's nation 
and the spirit of one's nation 
affect the individual. 
~Jean Paul Richter~ 

Eddie Rickenbacher

Courage is doing 
what you are afraid to do. 
There can be no courage 
unless you're scared. 
~Eddie Rickenbacher~ 

Jacob August Riis

When nothing seems to help, 
I go and look at a stonecutter 
hammering away at his rock 
perhaps a hundred times 
without as much as a crack 
showing in it. 
Yet at the hundred and first blow 
it will split in two, 
and I know it was not that blow 
that did it, 
but all that had gone before. 
~Jacob August Riis~ 

Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the miracle that happens every time
to those who really love; the more they give,
the more they possess.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Once the realization is accepted
that even between the closest
human beings infinite distances continue,
a wonderful living side by side
can grow, if they succeed in loving
the distance between them
which makes it possible for each
to see the other
whole against the sky.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

For one human being to love another
that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks;
the ultimate, the last test and proof;
the work for which all other work is but preparation.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Perhaps everything terrible
is in its deepest being something
helpless that wants help from us.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Have patience with everything
in your heart and try to love
the questions themselves as if
they were locked rooms or books
written in a very foreign language.
Don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able
to live them. And the point is,
to live everything. Live the question now.
Perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually,
without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.
~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Dan Roberts

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve 
and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve... 
~Dan Roberts~

Donna Roberts

A friend knows the song in my heart
and sings it to me
when my memory fails.
~Donna Roberts~

Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Youth is a perpetual intoxication;
it is a fever of the mind.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

To listen closely and reply well 
is the highest perfection we are able to attain
in the art of conversation.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

It is more easy to be
wise for others than for ourselves.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

We always like those who admire us;
we do not always like those whom we admire.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

Absence diminishes small loves 
and increases great ones, 
as the wind blows out the candle 
and blows up the bonfire.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses
what one would be capable of doing 
with the world looking on.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

In the human heart new passions are 
forever being born;
the overthrow of one almost always 
means the rise of another.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

Hope, deceiving as it is,
serves at least to lead us
to the end of our lives
by an agreeable route.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

We are more often treacherous,
through weakness than through calculation.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

The pleasure of love is in loving.
We are happier in the passion we feel 
than in that we inspire.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

True love is like ghosts,
which everybody talks about and few have seen.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

In jealousy there is more self-love than love.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

Absence diminishes mediocre passions
and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out candles
and fans fire.
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

How is it that our memory is good enough 
to retain the least triviality that happens to us, 
and yet not good enough to recollect 
how often we have told it to the same person? 
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

Our hopes, often though they deceive us, 
lead us pleasantly along the path of life. 
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

Quarrels would not last long 
if the fault were only on one side. 
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

The greatest miracle of love 
is the cure of coquetry. 
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

We endeavor to make a virtue 
of the faults we are unwilling to correct. 
~Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld~

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. 
~John D. Rockefeller, Jr.~

Carl Rogers

The only person who is educated is the one who 
has learned how to learn...and change. 
~Carl Rogers~ 

Dale Evans Rogers

Christmas, my child, is love in action. 
... Every time we love, every time we give, 
it's Christmas. 
~Dale Evans Rogers~ 

Mister Rogers....Fred Rogers

It's not the honors and not the titles and 
not the power that is of ultimate importance. 
It's what resides inside. 
~Mister Rogers....Fred Rogers~ 

Jim Rohn

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are 
with the gift of your attention. 
~Jim Rohn~

Words do two major things: 
They provide food for the mind 
and create light for understanding and awareness. 
~Jim Rohn~

I have found in life that 
if you want a miracle you first need 
to do whatever it is you can do - 
if that's to plant, then plant; 
if it is to read, then read; 
if it is to change, then change; 
if it is to study, then study; 
if it is to work, then work; 
whatever you have to do. 
And then you will be well on your way 
of doing the labor that works miracles. 
~Jim Rohn~

The goal of effective communication 
should be for listeners to say, 
"Me, too!" versus "So what?" 
~Jim Rohn~ 

You must constantly 
ask yourself these questions: 
Who am I around? 
What are they doing to me? 
What have they got me reading? 
What have they got me saying? 
Where do they have me going? 
What do they have me thinking? 
And most important, 
what do they have me becoming? 
Then ask yourself the big question: 
Is that okay? 
Your life does not get better by chance, 
it gets better by change.
~Jim Rohn~

Alice Wellington Rollins

The test of a good teacher 
is not how many questions he can 
ask his pupils that they will answer readily, 
but how many questions he inspires them 
to ask him which he finds it hard to answer. 
~Alice Wellington Rollins~ 

Eleanor Roosevelt

In the long run, we shape our lives,
and we shape ourselves.
The process never ends until we die.
And the choices we make
are ultimately our own responsibility.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
it is expressed in the choices one makes ...
and the choices we make
are ultimately our responsibility.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift would be curiosity.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

We gain strength, and courage,
and confidence by each experience
in which we really stop to
look fear in the face...
we must do that which
we think we cannot.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

Happiness is not a goal;
it is a by-product.
~Eleanor Roosevelt~

I could not at any age 
be content to take my place 
in a corner by the fireside 
and simply look on. 
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~

In the long run, 
we shape our lives, 
and we shape ourselves. 
The process never ends until we die. 
And the choices we make are ultimately 
our own responsibility. 
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~

Life is interesting only as long as 
it is a process of growth; 
or, to put it another way, 
we can grow only as long as 
we are interested.
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~

Nobody really does anything alone. 
We need all the friendship, 
all the support, we can get. 
But they have to be earned.
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~

The giving of love is an education in itself. 
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~ 

When you have decided what you believe, 
what you feel must be done, 
have the courage to stand alone and be counted. 
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~

You have to accept whatever comes 
and the only important thing is 
that you meet it with courage 
and with the best that you have to give. 
~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt~ 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

When you get to the end of your rope,
tie a knot and hang on.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement,
in the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

The only limit to our realization
of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Let us move forward
with strong and active faith.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

We cannot always build the future for our youth,
but we can build our youth for the future.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself 
-- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror 
which paralyzes needed efforts 
to convert retreat into advance. 
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

We may make mistakes--
but they must never be mistakes which result
from faintness of heart
or abandonment of moral principles.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

A man who has never gone to school
may steal from a freight train,
but if he has a university education
he may steal the whole railroad.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

The test of our progress 
is not whether we add more 
to the abundance of those who have much 
it is whether we provide enough 
for those who have little.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

Human kindness has never weakened 
the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. 
A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. 
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, 
the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. 
It is common sense to take a method and try it; 
if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. 
But above all, try something. 
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~ 

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty 
is a government strong enough to protect 
the interests of the people, 
and a people strong enough 
and well enough informed 
to maintain its sovereign control 
over the govenment. 
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~

We can gain no lasting peace 
if we approach it with suspicion 
and mistrust or with fear. 
We can gain it only if we proceed 
with the understanding, 
the confidence, and the courage 
which flow from conviction. 
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt~ 

Theodore Roosevelt

I care not what others think of what I do,
but I care very much about what I think
of what I do. That is character!
~Theodore Roosevelt~

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

The things that will destroy America
are prosperity at any price,
peace at any price,
safety first instead of duty first
and love of soft living and the
get-rich-quick theory of life.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

It's not the critic who counts.
It's not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles, or where
the doer of the deed could have done it better.
The credit belongs to the man in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood, who spends himself
in a worthy cause, who strives valiantly,
who errs and comes up short again and again,
who at best knows the high achievement of triumph,
who at worst, fails while daring greatly
for he knows his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

A grove of giant redwoods or sequoias
should be kept just as we keep a great
or beautiful cathedral.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

It is hard to fail,
but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
In this life we get nothing save by effort.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs-even though checkered
by failure than to take rank with these poor spirits
who neither enjoy much or suffer much.
Be wise, they live in the gray twilight
that know not of victory, nor defeat.
Nor true sorrow nor true love.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action,
and we have trusted only to rhetoric.
If we are really to be a great nation,
we must not merely talk;
we must act big.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

Get action. Seize the moment.
Man was never intended to become an oyster.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

The most important single ingredient 
in the formula of success 
is knowing how to get along with people.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

The best leader
is the one who has sense enough
to pick good men to do
what he wants done,
and self-restraint enough
to keep from meddling with them
while they do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt~

It behooves every man to remember 
that the work of the critic, 
is of altogether secondary importance, 
and that, in the end, 
progress is accomplished 
by the man who does things. 
~Theodore Roosevelt~ 

It is not the critic that counts; 
not the man who points out 
how the strong man stumbles 
or the doer of deeds could have them better. 
The credit belongs to the man 
who is actually in the Arena, 
whose face is marred by dust 
and sweat and blood; 
who strives valiantly; 
who errs and comes short again and again, 
because there is no effort 
without error and shortcoming; 
but he who does actually strive to do the deed; 
who knows the great devotion; 
who spends himself in a worthy cause, 
who at the best, knows in the end 
the triumph of high achievement, 
and who at the worst, 
if he fails while daring greatly, 
knows that his place shall never be 
with those cold and timid souls, 
who know neither victory nor defeat. 
~Theodore Roosevelt~

....spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity 
both the need of self-help and also the need 
of helping others in the only way which 
every ultimately does great good, that is, 
of helping them to help themselves. 
~Theodore Roosevelt~

The men and women who have the right ideals...
are those who have the courage to strive for 
the happiness which comes only with labor 
and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life 
springs in part from power of work and sense of duty. 
~Theodore Roosevelt~ 

Brig. Gen. John Rosa

Why go back into the hot zone?
"We don't leave Americans behind,''
~Brig. Gen. John Rosa~

John K. Rosemond

Now, I'm not denying that the concept
of rights is valid, but I wonder …
whatever happened to obligations?
One rarely hears the term anymore.
Indeed, have you ever heard of a
"human obligations movement?" …
The very ideal that holds a democracy together--
the willingness to make personal sacrifice
for the common good--
is going quickly by the wayside.
~John K. Rosemond~

W. S. Ross

The hand that rocks the cradle
is the hand that rules the world.
~W. S. Ross~

Leo C. Rosten

The purpose of life
is not to be happy -
but to matter,
to be productive,
to be useful,
to have it make some difference
that you have lived at all.
~Leo C. Rosten~ 

I learned that it is the weak 
who are cruel, and that gentleness 
is to be expected only from the strong. 
~Leo C. Rosten~ 

A writer writes not because he is educated 
but because he is driven by the need 
to communicate. 
Behind the need to communicate 
is the need to share. 
Behind the need to share 
is the need to be understood. 
The writer wants to be understood 
much more than he wants to be respected 
or praised or even loved. 
And that perhaps, 
is what makes him different from others. 
~Leo C. Rosten~ 

William Rotsler

You cannot hold back a good laugh 
any more than you can the tide. 
Both are forces of nature. 
~William Rotsler~

Helen Rowland

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, 
in order to understand all men; 
whereas a man may know all women 
and understand not one of them. 
~Helen Rowland~ 

Josiah Royce

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, 
you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. 
~Josiah Royce~

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Kindness is more important than wisdom, 
and the recognition of this is 
the beginning of wisdom. 
~Theodore Isaac Rubin~ 

Augusta E. Rundel

Christmas -- that magic blanket 
that wraps itself about us, 
that something so intangible 
that it is like a fragrance. 
It may weave a spell of nostalgia. 
Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, 
but always it will be a day of remembrance-- 
a day in which we think of everything 
we have ever loved. 
~Augusta E. Rundel~ 

John Ruskin

The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
~John Ruskin~

It is not how much one makes
but to what purpose one spends.
~John Ruskin~

Sunshine is delicious,
rain is refreshing,
wind braces up,
snow is exhilarating;
there is no such thing as bad weather
just different kinds of good weather.
~John Ruskin~

When love and skill work together,
expect a masterpiece.
~John Ruskin~

Bertrand Russell

Men fear thought as 
they fear nothing else on earth,
more than ruin, more even than death. 
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, 
destructive and terrible, 
thought is merciless to privilege, 
established institutions, and comfortable habit. 
Thought looks into the pit of hell 
and is not afraid. 
Thought is great and swift and free, 
the light of the world,
and the chief glory of man.
~Bertrand Russell~

It may seem to your conceited
to suppose that you can do anything
important toward improving the lot of mankind.
But this is a fallacy.
You must believe that you can help
bring about a better world.
A good society is produced only by good individuals,
just as truly as a majority in a presidential election
is produced by the votes of single electors.
Everybody can do something toward creating
in his own environment
kindly feelings rather than anger,
reasonableness rather than hysteria,
happiness rather than misery.
~Bertrand Russell~

To be without some of the things
you want is an indispensable
part of happiness.
~Bertrand Russell~

More important than the curriculum
is the question of the methods of teaching
and the spirit in which the teaching is given.
~Bertrand Russell~

All the important human advances 
that we know of since historical times began 
have been due to individuals of whom 
the majority faced virulent public opposition.
~Bertrand Russell~

George W. Russell

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty 
our eyes could never see. 
~George W. Russell~ 

Lord John Russell

A proverb is the wisdom of many 
and the wit of one. 
~Lord John Russell~ 

George Herman "Babe" Ruth

Never let the fear of striking out
get in your way.
~George Herman "Babe" Ruth~

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. 
~George Herman "Babe" Ruth~

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