he wind and the
waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
--Edward Gibbon |
Life is either
a daring adventure or it is nothing.
--Helen Keller |
Imagination is
more important than knowledge.
--Albert Einstein |
Personally, I'm
always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
--Winston Churchill |
Courage is
resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain |
We are not just
our behavior, we are the person managing our behavior.
--Kenneth Blanchard, Ph.D |
Life is what
happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
--John Lennon |
All truth
passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
--Arthur Schopenhauer |
A life spent
making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
--George Bernard Shaw |
Cherish your
visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your
ultimate achievements.
--Napoleon Hill |
If the only
tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like a nail.
--Abraham Maslow |
A hammer breaks
glass, but forges steel.
-- old Russion proverb |
Whether you
think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
--Henry Ford |
It's not hard
to make decisions when you know what your values are.
--Roy Disney |
You cannot
speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice
to a
summer insect, the creature of a season.
--Chuang Tzu |
Life is a
terminal condition. So do the best you can with the time you have left.
--Gerry Leeds |
Don't mistake a
clear view for a short distance.
--Paul Saffo |
What you do
speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear less, hope
more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love
more; all good things will be yours.
--Swedish Proverb |
Happiness is
essentially a state of going somewhere, whole-heartedly, one-directionally, without regret
or reservation. --William H. Sheldon |
The essence of
greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in the circumstances where others
choose madness.
--Dr. Wayne W. Dyer |
We live in a
wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the
adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
--Jawaharlal Nehru |
At 20 years of
age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
--Benjamin Franklin |
Ambition should
be made of sterner stuff.
--William Shakespeare |
Life is a
dance, if you know the steps.
--Anonymous |
If you have
built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now
put the foundations under them.
--Henry David Thoreau |
The young man
who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
--George Santayana |
He who has
health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
--Arabian Proverb |
You cannot
depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
--Mark Twain |
I am a part of
all that I have met.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
To make
pleasures pleasant shorten them.
--Charles Buxton |
He who wishes
to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
--Confucius |
These times of
ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as
there is life there is danger.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Most writers
regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its
use.
--Mark Twain |
"Invention
is the mother of necessity."
-- Thorstein Veblen |
"There are
two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it and when
he can."
- Mark Twain |
"Yesterday
is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have so
spend it wisely."
-- Kay Lyons |
"What a
privilege to be alive in this particular day and age!."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
"We can do
no great thing - only small things with great love."
-- Mother Teresa |
"The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt |
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps
it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however
measured or far away."
-- Henry David Thoreau |
"Happiness
is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
-- Thomas Jefferson |
"Oh sleep!
It is a gentle thing,/Beloved from pole to pole."
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
"All the
things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening."
-- Alexander Woollcott |
"Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as
you are today except for two things:
the books you read and the people you get close to."
-- Charles Jones |
"The
trouble with most of us is that
we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by
criticism."
-- Norman Vincent Peale |
"Character
is a by-product;
it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty."
-- Woodrow Wilson |
"Remember,
no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt |
"Rockne
wanted nothing but 'bad losers'.
Good losers get into the habit of losing."
-- George Allen |
"It is
much easier to be critical than to be correct."
-- Benjamin Disraeli |
"God asks
no man whether he will accept life That is not the choice. You must take it. The only
choice is how."
-- Henry Ward Beecher |
"The
greatest mistake a man can make is to be afaird of making one." Elbert Hubbard
|
"Thinking
is easy, acting is difficult,
and to put one's thoughts into action
is the most difficult thing in the world."
-- Goethe |
"To every
disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage."
-- W. Clement Stone |
"If you
have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
-- David Viscott |
"Learning
is its own exceeding great reward."
-- William Hazlitt |
"Perseverance
is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud
enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
"Seek the
first possible opportunity
to act on every good resolution you make."
-- William James |
"All great
ideas are controversial, or have been at one time."
-- George Seldes |
"A problem
well stated is a problem half solved."
-- Charles F. Kettering |
"In the
middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein |
"Why not
go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."
-- Will Rogers |
"The best
thinking has been done in solitude.
The worst has been done in turmoil."
-- Thomas Alva Edison |
"Leadership
is action, not position."
-- Donald H. McGannon |
"To get
profit without risk, experience without danger,
and reward without work,
is as impossible as it is to live without being born."
-- A. P. Gouthey |
"It's
unwise to pay too much, but it's unwise to pay too little, too.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money...that is all.
When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything because
the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
The Common Law of business balance prohibits
paying a little and getting a lot...it can't be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder,
it is well to add something for the risk you run,
and if you do that, you have enough to pay for something
better."
-- John Ruskin (1800's) |
"Every
good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your
life."
-- Grenville Kleiser |
"The
people who get on in this world
are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want,
and, if they can't find them, make them."
-- George Bernard Shaw |
"To escape
criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
-- Elbert Hubbard |
"Men
always fall for frigid women
because they put on the best show."
-- Fanny Brice |
"Unless a
woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion."
--Samuel Johnson |
"Love
demands infinitely less than friendship."
- George Jean Nathan |
"Love
doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."
- Franklin P. Jones |
"Too often
a sense of loyalty depends on admiration,
and if we can't admire it is difficult to be loyal."
- Aimee Buchanan |
"A
diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age."
- Robert Frost |
"Often the
difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of
leaving about three or four things a day unsaid."
- Harlan Miller |
"The great
secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents
and none of the incidents as disasters."
- Harold Nicholson |
"Why does
a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?"
- Barbara Streisand |
"No matter
how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that
there is a nice man who wishes she were not."
- H.L. Mencken |
"Reading
is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
- Sir Richard Steele |
"Zoo: an
excellent place to study the habits of human beings."
- Evan Esar |
"Exactness
in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness."
- Frederick W. Faber |
"With
today's high-volume scrambling and the razor competition for each job, employers
need a sharper look at each candidate."
| James E. Challenger |
|
"Too many
people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death."
James F. Byrnes |
"Unless a
man undertakes more than he possibly can do he will never do all he can do."
- Henry Drummond |
Success
or achievement is not the final goal.
It is
the 'spirit' in which you act that
puts
the seal of beauty upon your life." |
"To
love and be loved is the greatest happiness." |
"Do
the best and leave the rest." |
"Efficiency
is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression." |
"Brood
less, smile more and serve all." |
"The
tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing
comforts." |
"The
highest form of grace is silence." |
"Out
of purity and silence come the words of power." |
"The cultured give
happiness wherever they go. The uncultured whenever they go." |
"Faults become thick when
love is thin." |
"Comfort - Comes as
Guest, Lingers to become Host and stays to ENSLAVE us." |
"Disappointment
can come only to those Who make Appointment with the future." |
"Introspect daily, detect
diligently, negate ruthlessly." |
"Temper
takes you to Trouble, Pride keeps you there." |
"To
be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves." |
"A
successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at
him." |
"He who submits to
discipline is a DISCIPLE." |
"Happiness depends on
what you can give, Not on what you can get." |
"In
all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly
hidden." |
"Sin
is never in action, it is always in reaction." |
"
`Moksha' is not `Freedom from Action' but, `Freedom in Action'." |
"Work
without faith and prayer is like an artificial flower without fragrance." |
"Faith
is, `To believe what you do not see', the reward of which is, `you see what you
believed'." |
"To
understand anything is to find in it something which is our own." |
"Don't
put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket." |
Love is a
consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life
is the privilege to love all. |
"In
life to handle yourself, use your head, but to handle others, use your heart." |
"Plan
out your work, Then work out your plan. The former without the latter is a sheer waste.
The latter without the former is mere unproductive confusion." |
"You
are successful and creative only when you see an opportunity in every difficulty." |
Wining
is not a sometime thing;
it's
an all-time thing.
You
don't win once in a while,
you
don't do things right once in a while,
you do
them right all the time.
Winning
is a habit.
Unfortunately,
so is losing. |
Honesty
is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. |
You
see things that are and say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say,
"Why not?". |
Imagination
is more important than knowledge. |
Man's
mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. |
There are
no unimportant jobs, no unimportant people, no unimportant acts of kindness. |
There is no experience better
for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. |
This is
the final test of a gentleman; his respect for those who can be of no possible value to
him. |
Real
generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out. |
Never let a day go by without
giving at least three people a compliment. |
You are the same today that
you'll be five years from now except for two things: the people you meet and the books you
read. |
There are
two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't aford it, and when
he can. |