Edgar McGonigal:
CLASS OF 1971
Danville High SchoolClass of 1971
Danville, IN
Edgar's Story
Edgar is from Danville, Indiana. Edgar's schools include Danville High School. Edgar later attended Indiana University â Purdue University Indianapolis.
One of Edgar's favorite quotes is:"âIf you want to believe in something, believe in it. Just because something isnât true thatâs no reason you canât believe in it. â¦â¦â¦. Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honor, courage and virtue mean everything. That power and money, money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. And remember this, that love----true love never dies. â¦â¦ Doesnât matter if they are true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in.â - from Secondhand Lion
âThis is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to himâ-William Lyon Phelps
"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory." --Emily Post, American etiquette expert
"Make the most of your regrets. ... To regret deeply is to live afresh."
--Henry David Thoreau, American author and poet
"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not r...Expand for more
ejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails..." -1 Corinthians 13:4-8
âI do the very best that I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me wonât amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.â â Abraham Lincoln
âA turn of the die may make a great difference in our affairs. We may either be promoted, or discarded; one or the other seems likely soon to be the case, but âtis hard to divine which.â â Benjamin Franklin
âDo all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.â â John Wesley
âBeing Irish, I have an abiding sense of tragedy which sustains me through temporary periods of joy.â â W. B. Yeats
"Sometimes it's not enough to do your very best. Sometimes you have to get the job done." - Winston Churchill
Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." --Sir Norman Duckworth Kerr MacEwen, British Royal Air Force officer
âProblems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit."--M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and author".
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