Hal Urban quotes

“Being thankful and saying thanks are two habits of people who've discovered what it means to succeed in life.”
-- Hal Urban

Source : Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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“The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character. Working hard, treating others with respect and honesty-those are the keys to success.”
-- Hal Urban

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“We live by choice, not by chance.”
-- Hal Urban

Source : Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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“Kind words cost little, but accomplish much.”
-- Hal Urban

Source : Hal Urban (2004). “Positive Words, Powerful Results: Simple Ways to Honor, Affirm, and Celebrate Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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“An open mind isn't the same thing as an empty head.”
-- Hal Urban

Source : Hal Urban (2005). “Life's Greatest Lessons: 20 Things That Matter”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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“The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”

Source : "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.

“Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.”

“Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 555), 1895.

“Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.”

“He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.”

“Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.”

“It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.”

“Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.”

“There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.”

“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”