Worth Repeating

National Guard Bureau

WASHINGTON, July 10, 1998 –  

 "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
 Martha Washington
 First lady
 1732-1802
 
 "The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."
 Johann Friedrich von Schiller
 German poet
 1759-1805
 
 "Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
 Dag Hammarskjold
 Swedish statesman
 1905-1961
 
 "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
 Abraham Lincoln
 U.S. President
 1809-1865
 
 "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
 Oliver Wendell Holmes
 American writer
 1809-1894
 
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