More Quotes
"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to
find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all
you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out
of you."
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate
between what you know and what you don't."
"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."
"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like
a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of
control and confidence can give you a mental edge that
results in victory."
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
"One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and
grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering."
"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."
"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of
other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."
"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."
"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."
"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me"."
-James Branch Cabell
-William J. H. Boetcker
-Dick Cavett
-William James
-Frank Tibolt
-Anatole France, Author
-Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
-Arthur Ashe, Professional Tennis Player
-John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987
Ida Scott Taylor, Author
Richard Bach, Author
-Abraham Lincoln
-- Earl Nightingale
-- Jimmy Johnson, Football Coach
-- Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs speech to Stanford Graduating Class, June 2005
-- Richard M. DeVos
-- Charles M. Schwab
-- Diane Sawyer, TV Personality
-- Norman Vincent Peale, Pastor, Speaker and Author
-- James Thurber
-- Sir Winston Churchill
-- Erma Bombeck
