(Last updated: November 22/2006
"Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
And today? Today is a gift.
That's why we call it the present."
Babatunde Olatunjier
"Good is never enough when you know better is a possibility." -- Eva
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Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle and two is as though everything is a miracle.
--Unknown
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
--Phillips Brooks
I would rather have one rose and a kind word from a friend while I'm here than a whole truckload when I'm gone.
--Unknown
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-- Leo Tolstoy
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
-- Malcolm Forbes
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.
It's very easy to feel someone's pain when you love them.
"You can't deny
laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as
long as it wants."
-Stephen
King
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
-- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Speech at the House of Commons, January 24, 1860
If you think you're too
small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
--Anita Koddick
If you are going to walk
on thin ice, you might as well dance.
--Unknown
The self is not something
that one finds. It is something that one creates.
--Thomas Szasz
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
-- Rita Rudner
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.
-- Robert Heinlein
I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
-- Paula Poundstone
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
-- Edward Shepherd Mead
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
-- Charles De Gaulle
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
-- Margaret Bonnano
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
-- Amanda Cross
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
-- Henny Youngman
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.
Ray Kroc
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
Richard Bach
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
Oprah Winfrey
"You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed."
Yanni
"Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about."
Earl Nightingale
You can show up for work every day...but showing up does not mean success in your work."
Catherine Pulsifer
"In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."
John Ruskin
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." --Bertrand Russell
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Any time you give a man
something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get and
that includes respect.
--Woody Hayes
If it's the last game
you'd ever want to see in your life, it might be these two teams and that
makes it special. Two great football states, two great schools, two of the
largest alumni in the world. The interest level is tremendous.
--Jim Tressel
Success: It's what you do
with what you've got.
--Woody Hayes
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-- Hermann Hesse
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
-- John Ruskin
I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.
-- Zach Braff
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
-- Japanese Proverb
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-- Russell Baker
Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
Plough deep while
sluggards sleep.
--Benjamin Franklin
When you are arguing with
a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.
--Unknown
The beginning of anxiety
is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
--George Mueller
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.
Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.
About the only thing that
comes to us without effort is old age.
--Gloria Pitzer
If a man is called a
streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or
Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of Heaven and Earth will pause to say, "Here lived
a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
True religion is the life
we lead, not the creed we profess.
--Louis Nizer
Efficiency
"Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life." Thomas Friedman
"Efficiency is
doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things."
Peter Drucker
"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." Stephen Cove
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
-- Rod Serling
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
-- Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Beauty"
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
-- Woody Allen
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-- Jimmy Buffett
Do the one thing you think
you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only
people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your
moment. Own it.
--Oprah Winfrey
We can't all be heroes,
because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
--Unknown
Youth would be an ideal
state if it came a little later in life.
--Herbert Henry Asquith
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
In studying successful people, you will find that many of
them had an abundance of ideas that did not work. Yet, they kept going and
didn't get discouraged by unsuccessful attempts. After many attempts, in some
cases, they found one idea that did work, and that one idea led them to their
ultimate success.
Catherine Pulsifer
"Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough."
Charles F. Kettering
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged."
Thomas Edison
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Duke Ellington
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B. C. Forbes
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is human nature to judge what one has in accordance with what others think of it. It is human nature to love what others want.” --David Owens
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Facts are stupid things.
-- Ronald Reagan
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
-- Robert Benchley
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain, (attributed)
All truths are easy to
understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
--Galileo Galilei
There is no purifier like
knowledge in this world. Time makes man find himself in his heart.
--Bhagavadgita
Preaching is effective as
long as the preacher expects something to happen, not because of the sermon,
not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
--John E. Hines
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
-- Paul Gauguin
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
-- Michael Friedman
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
-- H. L. Mencken
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
-- Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
-- Carl Becker
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
-- Ogden Nash
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
-- Dana Carvey
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
-- Albert Guinon
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
This nation will remain
the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
--Elmer Davis
I think there is one
higher than president and I would call that patriot.
--Gary Hart
As we express our
gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter
words, but to live by them.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"They always say time
changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
- Andy Warhol
"There is nothing like
returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
"We all have big changes in
our lives that are more or less a second chance."-
Harrison Ford
"Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat."
- Prince Phillip of England
"Resolve to be a master of
change rather than a victim of change."
- B. Tracy
A Few Proverbs:
"Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason."
"Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it."
He who moves, picks up, he who stands till dries up.
As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life.
Necessity never makes a good bargain.
Adversity and loss makes a man wise.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never."
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
"No matter how far you have gone down the wrong road, turn back."
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Do a little each day to get you to your goals and over time you'll get there.
Robin Sharma
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Gravitate towards your goals and avoid negative people and situations.
Phillip Crone
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way
Napoleon Hill
Positive anything is better than negative nothing
Elbert Hubbard
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and mot be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
The wisest among us-the genuine leaders-smile in the face of adversity.
Robin Sharma
The value of achievement lies in the achieving
Albert Einstein
Good thoughts are no better than good reams unless they be executed!
Ralph W Emerson
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Oprah Winfrey
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall.
Robin Sharma
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimple, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Giving is a necessity sometimes... more urgent, indeed, than having.
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
A loyal friend laughs at
your jokes when they're not so good and sympathizes with your problems when
they're not so bad.
--Arnold H. Glasgow
The soul is
indestructible. It is like the sun, which to our eyes, seems to set at night;
but it has in reality, only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
--Unknown
Winners make a habit of
manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
--Brian Tracy
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
-- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Three Doctors, 1993
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Sometimes I lie
awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me,
'This is going to take more than one night.'"
-Charles M.
Schulz
One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
"We must laugh
at man to avoid crying for him."
-Napoleon
Bonaparte
The real measure of your
wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
--Bernard Meltzer
Not a day passes over this
Earth but men and women of note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer
noble sorrows.
--Charles Reed
Life is the gift God gave
you. Faith is the instruction book. Love is the fuel to keep you going.
--Bob Perks
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
-- Marvin Mins
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-- George Burns
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
-- James Russell Lowel
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
-- Jack Benny
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
-- Heinrich Heine
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
-- Henry Jame
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
-- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
--Stephen Covey
All I would tell people is to hold onto what is individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.
--Harrison Ford
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
--Oscar Wild
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
If you can learn from hard
knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
--Carolyn Kenmore
Be of good cheer. Do not
think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have
set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere and you
will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
--Helen Keller
Simplicity, clarity,
singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness
and joy.
--Richard Halloway
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
-- Jonathan Winters
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
-- Theodore Roosevelt
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
"Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
Danny Kaye
"Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities."
Jim Rohn
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
Dale Carnegie
"Have you ever wondered how some of the worst things that happen in your life turn out to be some of the best experiences you've ever had?"
Dean Pennicott
"I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.
John McLeod
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli
Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Samuel Johnson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Feathe
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.
--Unknown
You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
--Malcolm Forbes
Don't measure life by how many breaths you take, measure it by how many times it takes your breath away.
--Unknown
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-- Clarence Darrow
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
-- Bill Lyon
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas
Art is science made clear.
-- Jean Cocteau
Some marriages are made in
Heaven, but they all have to be maintained on Earth.
--Unknown
In every marriage more
than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and
continue to find, grounds for marriage.
--Robert Anderson
I have learnt silence from
the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.
Yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
--Unknown
All phone calls are obscene.
-- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
-- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank
Happiness is a warm puppy.
- Charles Schulz
The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.
- Andrew Matthews
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
- Primo Levi
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
- Thorton Wilder
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
- Andy Rooney
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
- Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Suess
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
-- Michael McClary
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
-- Rudyard Kipling
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
-- Douglas Adams
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
-- Dylan Thomas, in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The world is a dangerous
place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and
do nothing.
--Albert Einstein
No arsenal, no weapon in
the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of
free men and women.
--Ronald Reagan
Courage to start and
willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success.
--Alonzo Newton Benn
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” - Albert Einstein
“Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.” - Douglas Adams
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
-- Woody Allen
The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
-- Nancy Astor
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
-- Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
-- Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
A seven-year-old boy approached an old man in front of a wishing well, looked up into his eyes, and asked: "I understand you're a very wise man. I'd like to know the secret of life."
The old man looked down
at the youngster and replied:
"I've thought a lot in my lifetime, and the secret can be summed up in four
words.
1) The first is think. Think about the values you wish to live your life by.
2) The second is
believe. Believe in yourself based on the thinking you've done about the
values you're going to live your life by.
3) The third is dream. Dream about the things that can be, based on your
belief in yourself and the values you're going to live by.
4) The last is dare. Dare to make your dreams become reality, based on your belief in yourself and your values."
And with that, Walter E. Disney said to the little boy, "Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare."
We all can learn from Walt Disney how to take on challenges in life.
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The person who says it
cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
--Chinese proverb
A computer makes as many
mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.
--Unknown
At 20 years of age, the
will reins; at 30, the wit; at 40, the judgment.
--Benjamin Franklin
Conceit is God's gift to little men.
-- Bruce Barton
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
-- Barbara Tober
The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
-- Jeff Foxworthy
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.
I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.
When we tire of well-worn
ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to
climb and to seek the
mountain view.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
True friendship is seen
through the heart, not through the eyes.
--Unknown
One only needs two tools
in life: WD-40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stop.
--G.M. Weilacher
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
-- James Reston, New York Times, June 12 1968
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-- Jules Renard
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
-- Robert Benchley
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
-- Chuck Reid
There are more fools in the world than there are people.
-- Heinrich Heine
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
-- William Wrigley Jr.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
-- Robertson Davies
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
-- Anatole France
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
-- Cindy Gardner
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
-- H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines
The Wisdom of Einstein
Knowledge:
The Search for the truth and Knowledge is one of the finest attributes of a man, though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
Authority:
To punish me for my contempt of authority, fate has made me an authority myself.
Truth:
It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is easy to recognize a falsehood.
Cooperation:
A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Wisdom:
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Greatness:
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
Happiness:
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future
Fame:
With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
Life:
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
Ageing:
I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.
Praise:
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Problems:
Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.
Relativity:
An hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour.
Goals:
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.
Racism:
The only remedies against race and prejudice are enlightenment and education. This is a slow and painstaking process.
Solitude:
I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Value:
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Imagination:
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of imagination has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing absolute knowledge
So little time and so little to do.
-- Oscar Levant
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
-- George Bernard Shaw
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
-- Quentin Crisp
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them.
Albert Einstein
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
Quotes That Make You Think," sent in by Carl J of Houston...
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In order to keep a true perspective of one?s importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
- Dereke Bruce
The race isn't always to the swift, but if I'm putting my money down. That's how I'm going to bet.
- Jeff Warren
If you have weird vegetarian friends it is best not to invite them to a barbecue.
- Scott Adam
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
-Mark Twain
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Sartre
Many ideas grow better
when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Seeing death as the end of
life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
--Unknown
A man who suffers or
stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
--Henry Kissinge
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside.
If you accept the
expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change
the outcome.
--Michael Jordan
If you think you can, you
can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
--Henry Ford
Don't forget that little
emotions are the great captains of our lives.
--Vincent Van Gogh
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
-- Suzanne Necker
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
-- Peter De Vries
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
-- George Santayana
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
-- William Feather
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Life is not so important as the duties of life.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
You can be pleased with
nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
We can find comfort among
those who agree with us, growth among those who don't.
--Unknown
Courage is the greatest of
all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not have an
opportunity to use any of the others.
--Samuel Johnson
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.
Life is not so important as the duties of life.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
--Marya Mannes
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
--T.S. Eliot
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
-- Tom Stoppard
I am just going outside and may be some time.
-- Captain Lawrence Oates, last words
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
-- Jean Paul Richter
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"
It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
-- George Carlin
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright
Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
-- Clare Booth Luce
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
-- Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
Guidelines for Life
1. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
2. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
3. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
4. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
5. Be gentle with the Earth.
6. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
7. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
8. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to obtain it.
9. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
10. Find something positive in this message and to pass it on to all your friends.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
--Unknown
Angels exist, but sometimes, since they don't all have wings, we call them friends.
--Unknown
The greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fall.
--Unknown
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
-- Lichty and Wagner
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
-- Thomas Merton
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
-- George Burns
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
more wisdom on imagination:
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination."
William Arthur Ward
"The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm."
Thomas J. Watson
"The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer."
Charles F. Kettering
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
Les Brown
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
-- Anthony Robbins
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Quotes focussed on Leadership...
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"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."
-Winston Churchill
"Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says,'Go!' A leader says, 'Let's go!'"
- EM Kelly
"To govern is to serve, not to rule."
- Seneca
"Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them."
-Winston Churchill
"A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.
-Lao Tzu
"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."
- Warren Bennis
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy."
- General Norman Schwarzkopf
"The leadership instinct
you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone
that go with it."
- Elaine Agather
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as thought everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein
May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, the angels protect you and Heaven accept you.
--Unknown
There is a great spectacle and that is the sea. There is a greater spectacle than the sea and that is the sky. There is yet a greater spectacle than the sky and that is the interior of the soul.
--Victor Hugo
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience and perseverance.
--Unknown
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
-- Penn Jillette, in a Compuserve chat
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
-- Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
-- Galileo Galilei
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead
I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
-- Robert Orben
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
-- Barry Switzer
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical; our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal.
--Harold Kushner
The soul never thinks without a picture.
--Aristotle
Success means fulfilling your own dreams, singing your own song, dancing your own dance, creating from your heart and enjoying the journey, trusting that what happens, it will be okay. Creating your own adventure!
--Elana Lindquist
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
-- German Proverb
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
-- Kin Hubbard
Never have children, only grandchildren.
-- Gore Vidal
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
-- Terry Pratchett
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same
number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,
Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert
Einstein."
-- H. Jackson Brown
"The bad
news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
-- Michael Altshuler
"A wise
person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at
different times."
-- Baltasar Gracian
"Many people
seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other
areas. But can it really?...True effectiveness requires balance."
-- Stephen Covey
"Never let
yesterday use up today."
-- Richard H. Nelson
"Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-- Henry Ford
"Heaven on
Earth is a choice you must make, not a place we must find."
-- Dr. Wayne Dyer
"Always bear
in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other
one thing."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"The only
limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
-- Franklin D.
Roosevelt
"It's never
too late to be what you might have been."
-- George Eliot
"No one can
cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"More men
fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."
-- Billy Sunday
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"One
worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred
half-finished tasks."
-- Malcolm S. Forbes
"To think
too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing."
-- Eva Young
"A year from
now you will wish you had started today."
-- Karen Lamb
"The surest
way to be late is to have plenty of time."
-- Leo Kennedy
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Underpromise; overdeliver.
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
All people want is someone to listen.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
-- Oscar Levant
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. 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, "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
They always talk who never think.
-- Matthew Prior
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
-- Edward Abbey
"Believe while others are doubting." William Arthur Ward
"Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you." Marsha Sinetar
"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests." John Stuart Mill
These people-and all winners-possess the will to win. It's a will that starts with a belief in our ability to achieve the goals we dream of accomplishing." Dare2BU
"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited." Brian Tracy
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." Mary Kay Ash
The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets fro it but what he becmes by it
John Ruskin
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert Hubbard
The most successful people on the planet have failed more than ordinary ones.
Robin Sharma
Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them.
Jack Brown
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill
Unless a life is lived for others, it ins not worthwhile.
Mother Teresa
It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.
Anthony Robbins.
A good listener is a silent flatterer.
Spanish proverb
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings
Great minds have purposes, others have dreams.
Washington Irving
A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.
Korean Proverb
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
Italian Proverb
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
No one is useless I this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens
All you need is passion. If you have a passion for something, you’ll create the talent.
Unknown
People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do.
Unknown
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph W. Emerson
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
Danish Proverb
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Og Mandino
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Alan Alda
Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone
Have a heart that never hardens and a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
People are lonely, because
they build walls instead of bridges.
--Unknown
After all this is over,
all that will really have mattered is how we treated each other.
--Mary Englebreit
True friends are those
who, when you make a fool of yourself, don't believe the condition is
permanent.
--Unknown
Inspirational Quotes on Age
"For Age is not
alone of time, or we should never see
Men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three."
Edgar A Guest
"Age…
Is a matter of feeling, not of years."
George W. Curtis
"Here is the test
to find whether your mission on earth is finished:
If you're alive, it isn't."
Richard Bach
"Nobody grows old
by merely living a number of years.
People grow old by deserting their ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."
General Douglas MacArthur
"You are never too
old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. "
Les Brown
"And in the end,
it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"You are never too
old. One of many examples, Grandma Moses (1860-1961), she started painting in
her late 70s. She is best known for her documentary paintings of rural life.
If you ever think you are too old, think of Grandma Moses!"
Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes on Helping
Others
"There is more happiness in giving than in receiving." Acts,
20:35
"Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid." Albert Schweitzer
"People never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough." Catherine Pulsifer
"To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success." Henry Ford
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." Mother Teresa"
After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world." Bertha von Suttner
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." Bob Hope
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike
You are so fortunate, but what are you giving back to make this world a better place for others?" Catherine Pulsifer
Quotes on fate:
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
There is no
chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a
determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you can't
change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
Seek not to know
what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A
busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known
before!
John Dryden
When I was
younger, things happened in my life that made me wonder if they were a
coincidence or was it fate? And now, as the years have passed, I strongly
believe in fate -- everything happens for a reason.
Catherine Pulsifer
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
-- Dan Quayle
Food for thought on quotations:
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Benjamin Disraeli
Life itself is a quotation. Jorge Luis Borges
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. Marlene Dietrich
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. Samuel Johnson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Feather
"Our brains have the ability and capacity to continue learning for the majority of our lives. If we can just keep pushing forward, the answers to life will present themselves."
Phillip Crone
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
-- Woodrow Wilson
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
-- Fran Lebowitz
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
-- Rebecca West
All high achievers plan
their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that luck is most
often being prepared to take advantage of a situation.
--Unknown
Grief makes one hour ten.
--William Shakespeare
We come into this world
crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this
world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
--Unknown
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
-- Jean Rostand, Journal of a Character, 1931
Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
-- Unknown
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.
-- Darrin Weinberg
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
-- Oscar Wilde
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
-- Aldous Huxley
Accountability
“Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.” Denis Waitley
“Accountability breeds response-ability.” Stephen Covey
"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." Moliere
"My belief is that personal freedom cannot grow beyond personal responsibility. The more people that learn to be fully accountable for their lives, the more freedom each of us can enjoy and the more fulfilling all of our lives will be." Reed Konsler
People fail forward to success.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Almost everything ? all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
-- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
-- Wendell Johnson
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
-- Mae West
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca
1924-
American Businessman
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
-- Robert Graves
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
-- Bertrand Russell
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
-- George Carlin
"Keep trying" is the rule that must be followed if you want to be successful at anything.
Your success will always be connected with your actions.
Just keep moving towards your goal. You'll make mistakes along the way but don't ever quit. You may even have to hang on after others have let go.
Persistence means taking pains to overcome every obstacle, to do all that's necessary to reach your goal.
In the end, the only people who fail are those that do not try. All great achievements takes time.
Written by Max Steingart, you can visit him at http://www.successway.com
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning
Anthony Trollope
1815-1882
British Novelist
The more sand that has
escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
--J. Franklin
Do not be afraid of
showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men
are more helped by sympathy than by service; love is more than money, and a
kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
--Unknown
Time is glue that bonds a
broken heart, but love is the air which dries the glue.
--Jim Bishop
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
-- H. L. Mencken
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.
-- Franklin P. Jones
I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.
-- Mitch Hedberg
It Takes Persistence To Reach Your Goal...
by Max Steingart
Joy, love and appreciation
are powerful motivators. They are all feelings that humans experience around
the heart. Joy is a feeling of pleasure or delight that arises from the heart.
Positive feelings are what make life worth living.
--Deborah Rozman
Do not judge and you will
never be mistaken.
--Unknown
There is one thing one has
to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature or a soul made cheerful by
work, love, art and knowledge.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
The body says what words cannot.
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
The body says what words cannot.
Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.
"The secret of a
good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two
as close together as possible."
-George
Burns
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
-- Anne Frank
Everything in the universe has a purpose. There are no misfits, there are no freaks, there are no accidents. There are only things we don't understand.
-- Marlo Morgan
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
-- Jonathan Swift
A poem is no place for an idea.
-- Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
Friends are pillars on
your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you and
sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by.
--Unknown
Ordinary riches can be
stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
--Oscar Wilde
He who has health has hope
and he who has hope, has everything.
--Unknown
Perhaps they are not
stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours
through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.
--Unknown
Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
--Unknown
The hero is one who
kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark
streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the
dark paths of the world, himself a light.
--Unknown
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
-- Scott Adams
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
-- Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
-- John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
Epicurus
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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 God?s 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.
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
-- Blaise Pascal
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
-- Henry Fielding
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
-- George Ade, "The Steel Box", 1898
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
-- George Burns
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."
Frank A. Clark
"When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup."
Sam Lefkowitz
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens
"If you made a list of all the things you could be thankful for, the list would undoubtedly be longer than your misfortunes."
Catherine Pulsifer,
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
Oprah Winfrey
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
Meister Eckhart
A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
-- Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
-- Peter da Silva
Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months.
-- Bill Tammeus, in Toronto's National Newspaper, 1991
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
-- Johnny Carson
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
-- Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James M. Barrie
That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise.
-- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-11-05
The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
Og Mandino
1923-1996
American Motivational Author, Speaker
The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
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 God?s 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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-- Rita Mae Brown
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-- Umberto Eco
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
A lady is a woman who
makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman.
--American proverb
The ability to concentrate
and to use time well is everything.
--Lee Iococca
We make a living by what
we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Norman MacFinan
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Free advice is worth the price.
--Robert Half
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
--James Thurber
Your integrity will affect your destiny. Don't leave home without it.
--Clarence E. Hodges
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
-- Henry Cate VII
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-- Jackie Mason
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
-- William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959
Confusion is always the most honest response.
-- Marty Indik
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within."
-- Rev. Dr. Preston Bradley
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-- Erica Jong
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
No one dies wishing they had spent more time at the office.
--Carl Rich
If the future seems overwhelming, remember that it comes one moment at a time.
--Unknown
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
--William James
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
-- Robert Byrne
Where facts are few, experts are many.
-- Donald R. Gannon
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas
If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The best things in life
are not free, but priceless.
--Unknown
Learn to get in touch with
the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a
purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings
given to us to learn from.
--Unknown
Courtesy is simply doing
unto others what you would like them to do unto you.
--Unknown
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
-- James Feibleman
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
-- Charles M. Schulz
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
-- Honore de Balza
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
--James Truslow Adams
Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
--Charles Dickens
A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.
--Patricia Neal
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction."
-Albert Einstein
"In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead."
- Ben Franklin
"Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl."
- Bruce Raeburn
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
"Why don?t you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce, to her husband, James
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
- Mark Twain
"Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
- Richard Feynman
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I?ve never tried before."
- Mae West
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-- Irv Kupcinet
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
-- Georges Duhamel
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
-- Jerome K. Jerome
Virtue is its own punishment.
-- Aneurin Bevan
Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.
--Brian Tracy
You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time.
--Unknown
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track, but one inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.
--Henry Ward Beecher
"I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life anytime he is prepared and ready to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within."
-- Rev. Dr. Preston Bradley
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-- Erica Jong
Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
-- Solomon Short
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
-- Raymond Chandler
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
-- John Ruskin
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"Courage is the foundation of determination. Determination and courage are the cornerstones of success."
M. K. Soni
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Dale Carnegie
"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity."
W. Clement Ston
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore
You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.
--Mahatma Gandhi
It is not how much you do,
but how much love you put in the doing.
--Unknown
Two little words can make
the difference: Start now.
--Mary C. Crowley
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
-- Laurence J. Peter
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
-- Georges Clemenceau
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
-- Unknown, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
Consience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
-- Evan Esar
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-- G. H. Hardy
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
-- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
-- George Burns
Without discipline, there's no life at all.
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
-- George Carlin
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
-- Hodding Carter
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
-- Woody Allen
"A school is a building with four walls and tomorrow inside." – Barbara Knight
"Tell me and I forget; teach me and I may remember; involve me and I learn." – Ben Franklin
"A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." – Unknown
"When light confronts darkness, light always wins." – Michael Josephson
"Do 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 ever you can." – John Wesley
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." – Oprah Winfrey
"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment." – St. Bernard (1090-1153)
"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit." --
Napoleon Hill
"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth." -- Napoleon Hill
Don't hurry, don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit, so be sure to stop and smell the flowers.
--Walter Hagen
Remember that if the
opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good
deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness,
not the glory.
--F.W. Faber
True friends are those
who, when you make a fool of yourself, don't believe that this condition is
permanent.
--Erwin T. Randall
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
-- Jeff Marder
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
Sixteenth President of the USA
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
I cannot live without books.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Don't hold to anger, hurt
or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
--Unknown
A man is too apt to forget
that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left to
him.
--Carl W. Buechner
There is never time to do
it right, but there is always time to do it over.
--Unknown
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
-- Art Spander
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
-- Emerson Pugh
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "On the Value of Scepticism"
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
Ten Spiritual Tonics
By Abraham L. Feinberg
1. Stop worrying. Worry kills life.
2. Begin each day with a prayer. It will arm your soul.
3. Control appetite. Overindulgence clogs body and mind.
4. Accept your limitations. All of us can't be great.
5. Don't envy. It wastes time & energy.
6. Have faith in people. Cynicism sours the disposition.
7. Find a hobby. It will relax your nerves.
8. Read a book a week. It will stimulate & broaden your views.
9. Spend some time alone. It gives peace, solitude, and silence.
10. Try to want what you have, instead of spending your strength trying to get what you want.
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still."
Lou Erickson
"Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities."
Jim Rohn
"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
Dale Carnegie
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
"I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?"
Richard Bach
"I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning."
John McLeod
"Whatever the problem we have in our life, someone has faced it and
overcome it."
David DeNotaris
"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
Denis Waitley
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
-- Thomas Berger
Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
-- Spike Milligan, from "The Goon Show"
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
-- Dylan Thomas, in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
n Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let's have some new cliches.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
-- Samuel Johnson, from Boswell's Life of Johnson
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
-- Hermann Hesse
When you can't have what
you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
--Unknown
When you look at yourself
from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you
that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
--Albert Einstein
The height of your
accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
--William F. Scolavino
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.
I cannot live without books.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
The beginning is always today.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
-- Albert Einstein
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
-- Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power."
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
-- Tommy Cooper
The only paradise is paradise lost.
-- Marcel Proust
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
-- Doris Day
Whatever enlarges hope
will also exalt courage.
--Samuel Johnson
Too often, we
underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an
honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the
potential to turn a life around.
--Unknown
Whatever is begun in
anger, ends in shame.
--Benjamin Franklin
"Quotes That Make You Think"...
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too
much fun to only make once
* We could learn a lot from
crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull, Some have weird
names , and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same
box.
* A truly happy person is
one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
This is Rex Barker, reminding you that every once in a while, don?t take yourself too seriously. Have some fun and relax.
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
-- Samuel Butler
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
-- Noel Coward
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
-- Albert Camus
Many ideas grow better
when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
To fulfill a dream, to be
allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the
meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
--Bette Davis
The most absurd and
reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
--Vauvenargues
"Don't smoke too
much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to
the grave -- but there's no need to be in the passing lane."
-Robert
Orben
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well;
Charles Dickens
1812-1870
British Novelist
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Be contented when you have got all you want.
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
-- Cary Grant
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
-- Mel Brooks
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
-- Kenneth Tynan
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
-- Babe Ruth
Mistakes are part of the
dues one pays for a full life.
--Sophia Loren
There is nothing so
comfortable as money, but nothing so defiling if it be come by unworthily;
nothing so comfortable, but nothing so noxious if the mind be allowed to dwell
upon it constantly. If a man have enough, let him spend it freely. If he wants
it, let him earn it honestly.
--Unknown
Humor is an affirmation of
dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
--Romain Gary
Patience is passion tamed.
--Lyman Abbott
It is a glorious
achievement to master one's own temper.
--Unknown
Victory is sweetest when
you've known defeat.
--Malcolm Forbes
The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
-- Dudley Moore
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
-- Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
-- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
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A Couple of One Liner's
If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
The best vitamin for making friends....B1.
The 10 commandments are not multiple choice
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Minds are like parachutes... they function only when open.
Ideas won't work unless YOU do.
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
One who lacks the courage to start has already finished.
The heaviest thing to carry is a grudge.
Don't learn safety rules by accident.
We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Jumping to conclusions can be bad exercise.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its head out.
One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.
A friend walks in when everyone else walks out.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!
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You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
"Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend ... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that"s present — love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure — the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.— Sarah Ban Breathnach"
"Successful people see alternatives and are willing to try different ways. People who only see failure are unable to see another way and give up to easily."
Catherine Pulsifer
"If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you don't take the risk."
Rosalynn Carter
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
Edward Eggleston
"Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt."
Og Mandino
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
Johnny Cash
"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
"The greatest failure is the failure to try."
William Arthur Ward
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
-- Woody Allen
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
-- Unknown
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
-- Walter Winchell
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
-- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
-- Richard M. Nixon
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
-- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
-- Rodney DangerfieldMan
is happy only as he finds work worth doing, and does it well.
--E. Merrill Root
You can preach a better
sermon with your life than with your lips.
--Oliver Goldsmith
The world is good-natured
to people who are good-natured.
--William Makepeace Thackeray
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
-- Dick Cavett
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
-- Warren Beatty
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
-- Leon Trotsky
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
-- Carl Sagan
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
-- Hansell B. Duckett
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
-- Evelyn Waugh
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The family is the country of the heart.
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
He who finds diamonds must
grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones.
They are made.
--Henry B. Wilson
In times of universal
deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell
It is never too late to be
what you might have been.
--George Eliot
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-- A. J. Liebling
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
"The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil."
- Unknown
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings."
Helen Keller
"The world is a
dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because
of the people who don't do anything about it."
Albert Einstein
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Max Lerner
"...Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons."
Douglas Adams
"When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never
tried before."
Mae West
"To defeat them, First we must understand them."
Elie Wiesel (Nobel Laureate)
The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
--Marya Mannes
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
--T.S. Eliot
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
--Howard W. Newton
Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains – except kill it.
Erich Fromm, 1900-1980, American Psychologist
There is only one success:
to be able to spend your life in your own way.
--Christopher Darlington Morley
Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine.
--Lord Byron
The nearest way to glory,
a shortcut as it were, is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
--Socrates
But in the mud and scum of
things, there always, always something sings.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is what survives
when what has been learned has been forgotten.
--B.F. Skinner
A musician must make
music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at
peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
--Abraham Maslow
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
-- Voltaire
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
-- Edward John Phelps
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
-- Buddha
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you
closer to fulfilling your dreams.
-- Og Mandino
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
-- Dame Edna Everage
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
-- Groucho Marx
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
-- P. D. James
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
-- Frank Tibolt
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
"Be more aware in every day about what you think, which leads to the words
you speak, which leads to the actions you take. Be crystal clear in your
intent, for your habits of thought
create your reality." -- Eva
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
-- Billy Wilder
All things are difficult before they are easy.
-- Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
-- Jules Renard
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer
"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
American Proverb
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
Mary Kay Ash
"You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being, not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money, but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"You are in charge of your feelings, beliefs, and actions. And youteach others how to behave toward you. While you cannot change other people, you can influence them through your own behaviors and actions. By being a living role model of what you want to receive from others, you create more of what you want in your life."
Eric Allenbaugh
Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
310-395
Latin Poet
There's a whole social
rediscovery for someone who has been on the top and who is now starting his
way back up.
--Paul Kessler
The shortest and surest
way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear
to be.
--Socrates
The mere act of believing
that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
--Marcus Tullius Ciecero
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
-Josh J. Marine
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
-Bernice Johnson Reagon
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-George S. Patton
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
-William Ellery Channing
"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
-Henry Drummond
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
-- Ernest Haskins
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
-- Robertson Davies
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
-- Sue Murphy
The best and most
beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt
with the heart.
--Helen Keller
Happiness consists not in
having much, but in being content with little.
--Unknown
Happiness is a choice that
requires effort at times.
--Anon
Habits
"Winning 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 habit. Unfortunately, so is losing." Vince Lombardi
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going." Napoleon Hill
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." Anonymous
"Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you." Frank Crane
"Whenever you are angry,
be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a
habit."
Epictetus
"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them." Og Mandino
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." Colin Powell
Nature does not bestow
virtue; to be good is an art.
--Seneca
The work an unknown man
has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making
the ground green.
--Thomas Carlyle
In order to discover new
lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
--Andre Gide
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
-- Hannah Arendt
A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
-- Terry Pratchett
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.
--William W. Purkey
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
--Aristotle
There is no such thing as intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.
--Edgar Degas
I don't really trust a sane person.
-- Lyle Alzado
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
-- Tellis Frank
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
-- Lester B. Pearson
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
-- Peter Borden
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
-- Samuel Johnson
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
-- Robert Benchley
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
True happiness is not
attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
--Helen Keller
Whether you be man or
woman, you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the
greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
--James Lane Allen
We all have inconveniences
of one kind or another. How you deal with them determines how successful you
are.
--Craig McFarlane
"The more emotion behind a thought, the faster its physical
manifestation - whether the thoughts and emotions are positive
or negative. Once you understand that, you understand how
you've created the life you are living." -- Eva
Dedicated to John McLeod's life and the wisdom he has left us. John passed away on August 18, 2006. Here are some of his quotes and where you can read more from him. Rest in peace, John.
"Life, though, is full of compensations and I have been well blessed throughout my 'Life Journey' with good friends met and made along the way. Life is a kind of swings and roundabouts situation; if you can't kick a football you turn to other pursuits."
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning."
John McLeod, from the poem, I Believe ...,
http://www.wow4u.com/ibelieve/index.html
And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice....
John McLeod, from the poem, Awakening,
http://www.wow4u.com/awakening/index.html
"It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!"
John McLeod, from the poem, It's The Journey That's Important,
http://www.wow4u.com/journey/index.html
Love is ever where the heart will find it no matter how unlikely seems the place,
John McLeod, from the poem, Love Is Ever...,
http://www.wow4u.com/love/index.html
"Love much dear friends for love will bring the healing joy and hope of Spring..."
John McLeod, from the poem, Live....laugh...and Love,
http://www.wow4u.com/love/index.html
If Home is where the heart is then may your Home be blessed
John McLeod, from the poem, If Home is Where The Heart is ...,
http://www.wow4u.com/ifhome/index.html
"...words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire."
John McLeod
Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder."
John McLeod (Jaymac)
"Each day's a gift
Of Life divine
A precious jewel
That's yours and mine!"
John McLeod from the poem, I Believe In Miracles.... ,
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The best index to a person's character is/ (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and/ (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Beware of the man who won't be bothered with details.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
One must desire something to be alive.
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
-- Douglas Adams
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
-- Mark Twain
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
-- Ogden Nash
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
-- Gian Vincenzo Gravina
"The more sensitive you are to your emotional state, the more guidance you
can receive from your inner wisdom.
The emotion that you feel will let you know. Positive emotion is an
indication that you are in alignment with your inner intentions. Negative
emotion is an
indication that you are not." -- Eva
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
--Ernest Holmes
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.
--Richard Kemph
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
I think the world is run by 'C' students.
-- Al McGuire
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
-- Joe Ancis
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
-- Sir Thomas Beecham
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- e e cummings
There are spaces between our fingers so that another person's fingers can fill them in.
Never take away anyone's hope. That may be all they have.
“The throng of petty troubles pains us more than the violence of a single one, however great it may be.” –Montaigne
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Adversity
"A diamond is a chunk of
coal that made good under pressure."
- Anon.
"When you view success through the lens of adversity, it appears much larger." - Anon
" Problems are the
cutting edge that distinquishes between success and failure. Problems....
create our courage and wisdom."
- M.Scott Peck
"Character cannot be
developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success
achieved"
- Helen Keller
Too many people overvalue
what they are not and undervalue what they are.
--Malcolm Forbes
Experience is not what
happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
--Aldous Huxley
Security is not born of
inexhaustible wealth, but of unconquerable faith.
--Spencer W. Kimball
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
-- George Santayana
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.
-- George Bernard Shaw
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self Reliance"
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Nothing happens by chance,
my friend. No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and
such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real
clear right now, but we will, before long.
--Richard Bach
Do not mistake consequence
for fate.
--Kristin Brown
Destiny is not a matter of
chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a
thing to be achieved.
--William Jennings
Bryan
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
-- Steven Wright
Mustard's no good without roast beef.
-- Chico Marx
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-- William G. McAdoo
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
-- Albert Einstein
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
-- Bertrand Russell
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
-- John M. Ford
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
-- Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
Never tell anyone that you're: writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
-- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse, 07-15-06
Every day you may make
progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an
ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never
get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to
the joy and glory of the climb.
--Sir Winston Churchill
Big jobs usually go to the
men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
As simple as it sounds, we
all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by
making the most of the talents we've been given.
--Mary Lou Retton
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
-- Galileo Galilei
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
-- John Mason Brown, drama critic
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
-- Dave Barry
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
-- Voltaire
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
-- Oscar Wilde
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
To become an expert in any
human activity, it takes practice, practice, practice.
--Napoleon Hill
The superior man is
distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact
that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
--Unknown
Dreams have the power to
take us anywhere. Imagination in not a talent of some men, but is the health
of every man.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
No matter how much you disagree with your kin, if you are a thoroughbred you will not discuss their shortcomings with the neighbors.
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
-- Dame Rose Macaulay
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?
-- Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
-- Benjamin Stolberg
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
If you trust Google more than your doctor than maybe it's time to switch doctors.
-- Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 08-21-06
The big thieves hang the little ones.
-- Czech Proverb
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley
Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.
-- Margaret Millar
The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
--Chinese proverb
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
--Mother Teresa
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
--Persian proverb
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
-- W. C. Fields
In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-- Pliny the Elder
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
-- Peter Drucker
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
-- Gertrude Stein, The Geographical History of America (1936)
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you. Jeffrey Gitomer
Adversity precedes growth. Rosemarie Rossett
Prosperity is a great teacher; Adversity is a greater. Hazlitt
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. Lou Holtz
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. Og Mandino
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
Character cannot be
developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
--Helen Keller
In the depth of winter, I
finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus
I say that trials and
tests locate a person. In other words, they determine where you were
spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under
pressure is how the real you reacts.
--John Bevere
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
-- George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
-- Saki
The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.
-- Sidney J. Harris
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-- E. B. Whit
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
Live today to the fullest,
because tomorrow is not promised.
--Unknown
Until you're ready to look
foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
--Cher
A true friend is someone
who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
--Unknown
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
-- Marshall McLuhan
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
-- Dr. Seuss
Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
The world is full of
suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
--Helen Keller
Difficult times have
helped me understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful
life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are
of no importance whatsoever.
--Iask Dinesen
The only cure for grief is
action.
--George Henry Lewes
Every man has his follies
and often, they are the most interesting thing he has got.
--Josh Billings
It was when I found out I
could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
--Ornette Coleman
There are no mistakes, no
coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
-- Inigo DeLeon
If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
-- John Stuart Mill
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
-- Dan Quayle
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
-- Samuel Johnson
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison
Would you like me to give you a formula for...success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all...
You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
Abraham Lincoln
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Napoleon Hill
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
John Stuart Mill
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Success &
Happiness
"Success is
getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." Dale Carnegie
"Success is the
next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's
very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure."
Michael Korda
"It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him." Max Planck
"Success in its
highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness
which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best."
Napoleon Hill
"I was as happy doing theater in New York for little or no money as I am now doing television for more money. The happiness, I guess, comes out of it being a good job. The success has to do with the fact that it's a good job that will continue." actor David Hyde Pierce
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
-- Mark Twain
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
-- Gore Vidal
Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
-- Evan Esar, Esar's Comic Dictionary
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
-- Howard Dietz
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity
you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap
this source, you will truly have defeated age."
~Sophia Loren
Each
choice we make causes a ripple effect in our lives. When things happen to us,
it is the reaction we choose that can create the difference between the
sorrows of our past and the joy in our future."
© 2003 Chelle Thompson
"It is raining still... Maybe it is not one of those showers that is here one minute and gone the next, as I had so boldly assumed. Maybe none of them are. After all, life in itself is a chain of rainy days. But there are times when not all of us have umbrellas to walk under. Those are the times when we need people who are willing to lend their umbrellas to a wet stranger on a rainy day. I think I"ll go for a walk with my umbrella.— Sun-Young Park"
Mother Teresa Quote on People
"People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives, be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies, succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat on you. Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway."
-- Mother Teresa
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
-- Fran Lebowitz
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
-- Honore de Balzac
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
-- David Frost
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
--Margaret Drabble
We all have inconveniences of one kind or another. How you deal with them determines how successful you are.
--Craig McFarlane
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
--Helen Keller
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
-- Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
-- Leo Rosten
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
-- Laurie Anderson
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
-- Will Rogers
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Many an opportunity is
lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
--Anon
The golden opportunity you
are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck
or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
--Orison Swett Marden
Fortune knocks but once,
but misfortune has much more patience.
--Laurence J. Peter
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
-- William Ralph Inge
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe.
-- Richard Gere, to The Guardian (UK), June 2002
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
-- Patrick Young
The right to
be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
--Hubert Humphrey
Guard with jealous
attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Unfortunately, nothing preserves it but downright force. Whenever you give up
that force, you are inevitably ruined.
--Patrick Henry
We must remember that a
right lost to one is lost to all.
--William Reece Smith, Jr.
At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.
Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Change
"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." - Charles F. Kettering
"For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity." - Joyce Cary
"The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable." - John F. Kennedy
"A man's fortune must
first be changed from within."
- Chinese proverb
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Many people will walk in
and out of your life,
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart
To handle yourself, use your head;
To handle others, use your heart.
Anger is only one letter short of danger.
If someone betrays you
once, it is their fault;
If they betray you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
He who loses money, loses
much;
He who loses a friend, loses much more;
He who loses faith, loses all
Beautiful young people are
accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of
others.
You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Friends, you and me....
You brought another friend....
And then there were 3....
We started our group....
Our circle of friends....
And like that circle....
There is no beginning or end....
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
-- Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes, 1939
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
-- Anatole France
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
-- Louis Pasteur
Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
-- Ellen DeGeneres
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
I may not have gone where
I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
--Douglas Adams
Thousands of geniuses live
and die undiscovered, either by themselves or by others.
--Unknown
An adventure is only an
inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure
wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton
There are two kinds of
people in one's life: people whom one keeps waiting and the people for whom
one waits.
--Samuel Nathaniel Behrman
Do not be desirous of
having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have
things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small
advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
--Confucius
Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
-- Unknown
Life is just a bowl of pits.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
-- Henry Fielding
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
-- Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"Believe while others are doubting."
William Arthur Ward
"Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you."
Marsha Sinetar
"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests."
John Stuart Mill
These people-and all winners-possess the will to win. It's a will that starts with a belief in our ability to achieve the goals we dream of
accomplishing."
Dare2BU
"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited."
Brian Tracy
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."
Mary Kay Ash
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
-- Ann Landers
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
-- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.
-- Robert Jackson
Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
-- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-06-05
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
"The reason man may become the master of his own destiny is because
he has the power to influence his own subconscious mind."
Napoleon Hill
I felt like poisoning a monk.
-- Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
-- Fred Allen, on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
-- Tom Lehrer, lecturing in "The Nature of Math", 4/4/90
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
The heart of a fool is in
his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
--Benjamin Franklin
The sea does not reward
those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures
shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience,
patience is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty,
open, choiceless as a beach, waiting for a gift from the sea.
--Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Our patience will achieve
more than our force.
--Edmund Burke
Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
You
can't change the past,
but you can ruin the
present
by worrying
over the future.
Love...and you shall be loved.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
All people smile in the same language.
A hug is a great
gift... one size fits all.
It can be given
for any occasion
and it's easy to exchange.
Everyone needs to be loved...especially when they do not deserve it.
The real measure of a man's wealth is what he has invested in eternity.
Laughter is God's sunshine.
Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it.
It's important for parents to live the same things they teach.
Thank God for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need.
If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
Man looks at outward appearance but the Lord looks within.
The choice you make today will usually affect tomorrow.
Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul.
If anyone speaks badly of you, live so none will believe it.
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.
Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.
The best thing parents can do for their children is to love each other.
Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.
To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.
We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.
Love is the only thing that can be divided without being diminished.
Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.
For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.
Do what you can, for who you can, with what you have, and where you are.
You don't stop laughing
because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
--Unknown
Luck is the by-product of
busting your fanny.
--Don Sutton
Grant me the senility to
forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the old
ones I do and the eyesight to tell the difference.
--Unknown
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
-- Tallulah Bankhead
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
-- Thomas A. Edison
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
-- Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
A joke's a very serious thing.
-- Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.
During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
Life doesn't make any
sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it
doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
--Eric Idle
A serious and good
philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
Enjoy life. There's plenty
of time to be dead.
--Anon
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
-- Stephen Leacock
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
-- Alan Kay
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
-- Sidney J. Harris
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
-- Georges Clemenceau
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
-- Ernest Benn
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
-- Artemus Ward
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
-- Eric Hoffer
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
-- Dennis Miller
Luck
"The champion makes his own luck." - Red Blaik
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." - Oprah Winfrey
"When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way.That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens." - Christine Brinkley
Those who bring sunshine
to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
--James Barrie
The easiest way to find
something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.
--Unknown
The greatest gap in life
is the gap between knowing and doing.
--Dick Biggs
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Cherish each hour of this day for it can never return.
At the feast
of ego, everyone leaves hungry.
--Unknown
Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world.
--Albert Einstein
It's hard to make a
comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
--Unknown
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
-- George Carlin
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
-- Blaise Pascal
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-- Thomas Pickering
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
Humor
"This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought." - Lin Yutang
"Humor may be defined as
the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic
expression thereof."
- Steven Leacock
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield." - Anon
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.
"Your perception goes a long way in determining what your life is like. Is the glass half empty or is the glass half full."
Russ Stiffler
"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."
Norman Vincent Peale
"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
Denis Waitley
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
Alexander Graham Bell
"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."
Richard B. Sheridan
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
Tommy Lasorda
"Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
Genius will not;
Education will not;
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
Calvin Coolidge
Gratitude is not only the
greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
--Sir Winston Churchill
Gratitude is happiness
doubled by wonder.
--G.K. Chesterton
We count our miseries
carefully, and accept our blessings without much thought.
--Chinese proverb
"If we did all
the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves."
- Thomas Edison
"Everyone has
problems, some are just better at hiding them."
- Unknown
"Only by going
too far can one possibly find out how far one can go."
- Jon dyer
"People only
see what they are prepared to see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky
-- Solomon Short
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
-- Burt Bacharach
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
-- Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
-- Woody Allen
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
-- Flip Wilson
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
-- Edgard Varese
Living hell is the best revenge.
-- Adrienne E. Gusoff
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
A person without a sense
of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
--Henry Ward Beecher
Man's main task in life is
to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important
product of his effort is his own personality.
--Erich Fromm
A good head and a good
heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate
tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
--Nelson Mandela
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
-- Nancy Reagan
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
-- Aldous Huxley
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
-- George Bernard Sha
Don't
sweat the small stuff. Life is always putting something in your way. You can
let it beat you down or you can beat it.
--Unknown
People seldom refuse help,
if one offers it in the right way.
--A.C. Benson
You are richer today if
you have laughed, given or forgiven!
--Unknown
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
-- Muhammad Ali
This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
-- W. H. Auden
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
-- Edward Teller
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
-- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
-- Frank Dane
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
-- Aleister Crowley
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
-- Scott Adams
If a man be gracious and
courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his
heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to
them.
--Francis Bacon
Every charitable act is a
stepping stone toward heaven.
--Henry Ward Beecher
The most satisfying thing
in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
think laughter may be a
form of courage. As humans, we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and
laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
--Linda Ellerbee
Too often we underestimate
the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest
compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to
turn a life around. People come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a
lifetime. Embrace all equally.
--Unknown
The trouble with learning
from experience is that you never graduate.
--Doug Larson
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
-- Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
-- Edward Gibbon
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
-- Lynda Barry
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
All appears to change when we change.
Dreams that do come true can be as unsettling as those that don't.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Use soft words and hard arguments.
Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
-- Johnny Carson
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
-- Walter Lippmann
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
The discipline you learn
and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable
than the achievement of the goal itself.
--Bo Bennett
The white light streams
down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.
Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
--Charles R. Brown
Don't wait for the last
judgment. It takes place every day.
--Albert Camus
Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
-- Charles M. Schulz, (Snoopy)
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
-- Mogens Jallberg
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.
-- Thomas A. Edison
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
-- E. M. Forster
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
-- Sam Levenson
WORDS OF WISDOM IN THE FORM OF QUOTES:
"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies."
Ann Landers
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."
Les Brown
"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
Dale Carnegie
"Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life."
Og Mandino
"There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight."
Robert M. Hensel
"Pack all there is into your life; you only pass this way once! Sit back and think what is it you enjoy. Take courses, read books, find your passion, your 'wanna do's'."
Catherine Pulsifer
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Hope is the last thing
that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this
good use to us, that while we are traveling through life, it conducts us in an
easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
--Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When one door closes,
another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the
closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
--Alexander Graham Bell
Feelings are not supposed
to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
--David Borenstein
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
-- Henry Adams
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-- Niels Bohr
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
-- P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
People are just
about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Sometimes your
joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of
your joy."
- Thich Nhat Hahn
"Life is not
lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the
thousand small uncaring ways."
- Stephen Vincent Benét
"Life is 10%
what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
- Dennis P. Kimbro
"Don't be
afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed."
- Unknown
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
-- Cyril Connolly
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
-- Professor Irwin Corey
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
-- Thomas Fuller
The greatest pleasure I
know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
--Charles Lamb
Don't be afraid that your
life will end. Be afraid that it will never begin.
--Unknown
There are obviously two
educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to
live.
--James Truslow Adams
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Men who never get carried away should be.
-- Malcolm Forbes
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
-- Edwin P. Whipple
Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
-- Jay Leno
Humor is an affirmation of
dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
--Romain Gary
Goodness is a special kind
of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.
--H.A. Overstreet
Man has no nobler function
than to defend the truth.
--Ruth McKenney
Better keep yourself clean
and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
--George Bernard Shaw
If there is no wind, row.
--Latin proverb
Victory is sweetest when
you've known defeat.
--Malcolm Forbes
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
-- Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
-- Marquis de Vauvenargues
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
-- Woody Allen
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
-- Marquis de la Grange
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
-- Shana Alexander
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
The great end of art is to
strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat
even in the midst of a collapsing world.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Learn to write your hurts
in sand; learn to carve your blessings in stone.
--Unknown
If you wish to travel far
and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness,
selfishness and fears.
--Glenn Clark
I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
-- Graffito, in Los Angeles
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
-- Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
-- George Burns
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
-- Philip Johnso
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
-- William Feather
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
-- Edward R. Murrow
What Can You Do?
By Catherine Pulsifer
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
The philosophy in John F. Kennedy's qoute can be used in all areas of your life.
In your personal life, rather than expecting people to do something for you, ask yourself what can you do for the
In your professional life, rather than expecting your employer to do something for you, ask yourself what you can do for your employer.
You will double your success in all areas of life by asking yourself what you can do for others.
I truly believe that when you do something good, it comes back to you in many positive ways!
OTHER QUOTES TO GIVE YOU FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
"He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
Robert G. Ingersoll
"What goes around, comes around!"
Author Unknown
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."
Flora Edwards
"The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed."
Ray Kroc
"We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and mrelationship to humanity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Look up and not down. Look forward and not back. Look out and not in, and lend a hand."
Edward Everett Hale
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
-- Jimmy Breslin
In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.
-- Frank Wilczek
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
-- Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
-- Alfred E. Newman
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
-- George Ade, "Fables in Slang", 1899
Those who love
deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
--A.W. Pinero
Anger makes you smaller,
while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
--Unknown
If you have the courage to
begin, you have the courage to succeed.
--David Viscott
The really patriotic
citizen is the one who loves.
--Patrick J. Hayes
Laughter is the brush that
sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
--Mort Walker
Where nature is concerned,
familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.
--Stewart L. Udall
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
-- Gracie Allen
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
-- Groucho Marx
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
-- George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
--Harvey Fierstein
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another.
--Unknown
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus
Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
-- Unknown, Brigader Lethbridge-Stewart in "Dr. Who"
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
-- Mel Brooks
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
-- John H. Patterson
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
-- Ralph Hodgson, on ESP
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
-- Malcolm Forbes, in Forbes Magazine
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'
-- Cary Grant, (and Audrey Hepburn) "Charade", 1963
I've
been married a long time and I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what
women really want. I don't know, but the answer probably lies somewhere
between chocolate and conversation.
--Mel Gibson
All I
really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
--Charles Monroe Schulz
There
are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate
and chocolate truffles.
--Anon
"I'm astounded by people
who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around
Chinatown."
-Woody Allen
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
-- Denis Diderot
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
-- Benjamin H. Brewster
People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
-- Lee Iacocca
A great
many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their
prejudices.
--William James
The
irony of life is that by the time you're old enough to know your way around,
you're not going anywhere.
--Unknown
We all
have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take
us forward, they're called dreams.
--Jeremy Irons
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
-- Nancy Astor
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
-- Henry Allen
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
-- Craig Newmark, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the
first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their
gladness."
Maurice Materlinck
"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hillis
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Marcus A. Antoninus
"Outer changes always begin with an inner change of attitude."
Albert Einstein
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life
of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
shared."
Buddha
Man has never made any
material more resilient as the human spirit.
--Bernard Williams
Blessed
are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
--Unknown
Men can
be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to
think they have good qualities.
--John Richelsen
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
-- Laurence J. Peter
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
-- Paul Gauguin
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
-- Thomas Mann
Life
should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an
attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in
both hands, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "What a
ride!"
--Unknown
Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the
ability to say no to oneself.
--Abraham Joshua Heschel
Your work
is to discover your world and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.
--Unknown
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
-- Carl Sandburg, Incidentals (1907)
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
-- Don Herold
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
-- Samuel Goldwyn
"There is no ending. There is always more. Every moment is a new beginning, and a movement beyond what was. An ending of something is nothing more than a new beginning that is unfolding. Those focused on the ending are usually looking back at what was, rather than looking forward to what is coming. You're either open to what is new and coming or you're still focused on the past. By focusing on what is coming, you launch new intentions that draw more new experiences to you." -- Eva
Tips from Founding Fathers
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." Thomas Jefferson
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." Alexander
Hamilton
"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
Benjamin Franklin
"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
"The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions." John Hancock
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." George
Washington
"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." Benjamin Franklin
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
"I believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival...it ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other..." John Adams, on the 4th of July
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
-- John Ruskin, (attributed)
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
Duke Ellington
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."
B. C. Forbes
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress."
Calvin Coolidge
"Don't let people discourage you from living your dreams."
David DeNotaris
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."
Lucille Ball
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
-- Eugene McCarthy, Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
-- G. K. Chesterton
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
-- H. L. Mencken
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881
British Statesman, Prime Minister
Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~"Lillian, you should
have remained a virgin."
-- Lillian
Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
I had a rose
named after me and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read the
description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
Last week, I
stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been
visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
-- Mark Twain
The secret of
a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two
as close together as possible.
-- George Burns
Santa Claus
has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.--
Victor Borge
Be careful
about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-- Mark
Twain
By all means,
marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll
become a philosopher.
-- Socrates
I was married by a judge. I should have
asked for a jury.
-- Groucho
Marx
My wife has a
slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
-- Jimmy
Durante
I have never
hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa
Gabor
Only Irish coffee provides in a single
glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
-- Alex Levine
My luck is so
bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying .
-- Rodney
Dangerfield
Money can't
buy you happiness .. but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
-- Spike
Milligan
I am opposed
to millionaires... but it would be
dangerous to offer me the position.
-- Mark Twain
Until I was
thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP.
-- Joe
Namath
I don't feel
old. I don't feel anything until noon.
Then it's time for my nap.
-- Bob Hope
I never drink
water beca use of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
-- W.C.
Fields
We could
certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through
Congress.
-- Will
Rogers
Don't worry
about avoiding temptation . as you grow older, it will avoid you.
-- Winston
Churchill
Maybe it's
true that life begins at fifty ... but
everything else starts to wear out, fall
out, or
spread out.
-- Phyllis Diller
By the time a
man is wise enough to watch his step, he 's too old to go anywhere.
-- Billy Crystal
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
-- Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
-- Juvenal
He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
-- James Thurber
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
-- Joan Klempner
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
-- Gore Vidal
Some people will like me and
some won't. So, I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the
people who like me, like me.
--Hugh Prather
The stupid neither forgive
nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.
--Unknown
Go some distance away,
because the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance, and
a lack of harmony of proportion is rapidly seen.
--Leonardo da Vinci
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
-- Alexandre Dumas
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
-- George Ade
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
-- Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes"
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
-- Edward Abbey
"...but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it...live it...and never give it back."
Erma Bombeck
"'Someday' and 'one of these days' are losing their grip on my vocabulary. If it's worth seeing or hearing or doing, I want to see and hear and do it now."
Author Unknown
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations."
George Bernard Shaw
"Each of my days are miracles. I won't waste my day; I won't throw away miracle."
Kelley Vicstrom
"The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."
Charles Swindoll
Never fight an inanimate object.
-- P. J. O'Rourke
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
-- Phyllis Diller
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.