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Some quotes that will certainly make you feel wiser. "We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within." -Earl Nightingale "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." -Francis Bacon "The brain has an infinite storage capacity. There is no medical record of anyone anywhere being admitted to the hospital with a full brain." -David Meier "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit." -Conrad Hilton "Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life." -Mortimer J. Adler "Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework." -Jim Rohn "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The palest ink is better than the best memory." -Chinese proverb "The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind." -William James "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another." -Charles Dickens "Self-respect is the root of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." -Abraham J. Heschel "There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it's what we do with them that's important." -Ruth Ross "Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort." -John Ruskin "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." -John Lennon "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." -Anne Frank "A man's errors are his portals of discovery." -James Joyce "Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." -John Wooden "Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble." -Frank Tyger "Mountains do move... one stone at a time." -Rick Beneteau "Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference." -Nolan Bushnell "Learning is not a spectator sport." -Bill Lowthert "That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing." -Martin Luther King, Jr. "It's the job that's never started that takes the longest to finish." -J.R.R. Tolkein "Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness." -Faith Baldwin "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." -Joel Barker "When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends." -Japanese Proverb "Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." -John F. Kennedy "You cannot always control circumstances, but you can control your own thoughts." -Charles Popplestown "Empty pockets never held a man back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." -Dr. Norman Vincent Peale "What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think 'I can't.'" -Rex Steven Sikes "As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences." -Eugene McCarthy "No one tests the depth of a river with both feet." -Ashanti Proverb "Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it." -Pat Riley "Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character." -R.C. Samsel "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." -Mahatma Gandhi "There's a way to do it better - find it." -Thomas Alva Edison "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." -Lao Tzu "Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way.'" -Catherine DeVrye "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." -Nido Qubein "We all do 'do, re, me,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself." -Louis Armstrong "Never forget what you need to remember." -Garrett Bartley "If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself." -Haitian Proverb "Never say 'oops' in the operating room." -Dr. Leo Troy "He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful." -Horace "You were born to win- but you must plan to win, prepare to win, then you can expect to win." -Harvey Mackay "It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is not to make the attempt." -Suellen Fried "The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend out time doing second things first." -Robert J. McKain "The shortest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time." -Samuel Smiles "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein "On the human chessboard, all moves are possible." -Miriam Schiff "Strong convictions precede great actions." -J. F. Clarke "Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." -Belva Davis "Success depends upon individual initiative." -Anna Pavlova "To attempt to climb- to achieve- without a firm objective in life is to attain nothing." -Mary G. Roebling "It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted." -Marie O'Conner "Differences challenge assumptions." -Anne Wilson Schaef "Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidarity." -Phyllis McGinley "It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it." -Eleanor Roosevelt "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." -Erin Majors "Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go." -Hazel Scott "There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." -Leo Tolstoy "You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough." -Frank Crane "We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through." -Peter De Vries "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." -John Wooden "Some people regard descipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly." -Julie Andrews "We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations." -Agnes Repplier "Do your duty until it becomes your joy." -Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach "It's not aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude." -Zig Ziglar "A promise made is a debt unpaid." -Robert W. Service "Commitment in the face of conflict produces character." -Anonymous "It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live." -Ethel Percy Andrus "Don't watch the clock. Do what it does, keep going." -Sam Levenson "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." -Smiley Blanton "Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi "A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "There are not problems- only opportunities to be creative." -Dorye Roettger |
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