Triston Alexis:
CLASS OF 2008
Ross S. Sterling High SchoolClass of 2008
Baytown, TX
Triston's Story
Triston is from Baytown, Texas. Triston's schools include Ross S. Sterling High School. Triston works(ed) at Baytown Opportunity Center.
Music Triston likes includes Toni Braxton, Lil Playy, Pharrell Williams. Books Triston likes include Bible, Shut-Up-I'm-Talking, The Bible. Movies Triston likes include Love Don't Cost a Thing, The Nutty Professor, Selena Movie. TV shows Triston likes include Tyler Perry's House of Payne, For Better Or Worse, Hanging With Mr Cooper.
One of Triston's favorite quotes is:"1. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
-- Sir Richard Steele
2. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- Herm Albright
3. Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.
---- Lynn Johnston
4. I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
-- Martha Washington
5. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
-- William James
6. Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart
7. Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
-- Dorothy Bernard
8. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
9. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
-- Thomas Fuller
11. Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
-- Thomas Fuller
12. Strong reasons make strong actions.
-- William Shakespeare
13. Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
-- Jean Paul Richter
14. I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
--- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
15. Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
--- Confucius
16. If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
-- George E. Woodberry
17. And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
-- Real Live Preacher
18. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
19. Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe with. His mind was created for his own thoughts, not yours or mine.
-- Henry S. Haskins
20. God, I donât have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
-- Real Live Preacher
21. What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
-- Shakti Gawain
22. We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of Godâs existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
-- Real Live Preacher
23. Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
-- Stanislaw Lem
24. Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
-- Stella Terrill Mann
25. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
-- William Hazlitt
26. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner
27. Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
-- Alan Dean Foster
28. Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.
-- Barbara Hall
29. You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X
30. The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt
31. The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
---Diogenes Laertius
32. Dont let Nobody, Took Your Life A Way From You
and Your Attitude, would Not Take You Anywhere
As you pleased.
-- Triston Alexis
33. You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
-- Adam Cooper and Bill Collage
34. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner
35. Only the educated are free.
-- Epictetus
36. The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
-- Herbert Spencer
37. Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes
38. He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
-- Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
39. Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
-- Cicero
40. Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.
-- Colleen Wainwright
41. Destiny has Been Fulled
-- Triston Alexis
42. All people want is someone to listen.
-- Hugh Elliott
43. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
--- Dale Carnegie
44. You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
--- David Shore
45. Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold
46. If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold
47. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
-- Cicero
48. Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
-- Ovid
49. Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
50. Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.
-- Real Live Preacher
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51. There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
-- Washington Irving
52. To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
-- Aristotle
53. With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
-- Aristotle
54. It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
-- Publilius Syrus
55. It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
56. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
-- Pearl Buck
57. The wise man will love; all others will desire.
-- Afranius
58. Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
-- Lao-tzu
59. The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
-- Democritus
60. Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
-- Jules Renard
61. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
-- George Burns
62. I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
-- Garry Shandling
63. Does it really matter what these affectionate people do-- so long as they donât do it in the streets and frighten the horses!
-- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
64. I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
65. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
66. In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
-- Andy Warhol
67. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery
68. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
69. Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
70. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
-- Baltasar Gracian
71. Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light.
-- Baltasar Gracian
72. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
-- Erica Jong
73. Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
-- Henri-Frédéric Amie
74. Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
-- Sydney Smith
75. Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
-- Sophia Loren
76. You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
-- Juvenal
77. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
-- G. E. Lessing
78. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
-- Oscar Wilde
79. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-- Andre Gide
80. The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-- Edith Sitwell
81. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
-- Bible
82. The truth is more important than the facts.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
83. The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-- Edith Sitwell
84. A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
-- Lenin
85. I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
-- Ann Radcliffe
86. A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
-- Jerome Blattner
87. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
88. When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.
-- Real Live Preacher
89. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
90. A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
-- Albert Schweitzer
91. If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
-- Anna Quindlen
92. Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
-- Christopher Lasch
93. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley
94. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
95. The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
-- George Santayana
96. The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
-- Martina Navratilova
97. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.
-- Sun-tzu
98. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
-- Arthur Golden
99. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
-- Abraham Lincoln
100. The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.
-- Al Batt
101. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer
102. A goal without a plan is just a wish.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
103. The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
-- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
104. Happiness depends upon ourselves.
-- Aristotle
105. Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
-- Cher
106. It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
-- Frank Duff
107. Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.
-- Izaak Walton
108. Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
-- Kin Hubbard
109. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
-- Doris Lessing
GOOD Quotes TREMS>>>>>>>>>>>>:)
1. The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
-- Casey Stengel
2. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
-- John F. Kennedy
3. The crowd gives the leader new strength.
-- Evenius
4. We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.
-- Laura Preble
5. Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
-- George Goethals".
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