Quotes
Quotes
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang
except those that sang best.
----Henry Van Dyke
And remember this: if you ever think you're too small to be effective--you've
never been in bed with a mosquito.
----Anita Roddick
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
----Martin Van Buren
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
----Moliere
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
----The Reverend Jesse Jackson
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would
it?"
----Albert Einstein
"I know the price of success; dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion
to the things you want to see happen."
----Frank Lloyd Wright
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under
his feet.
----James Oppenheim
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
----Chinese Proverb
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when
one will do.
----Thomas Jefferson
The quality of our later life will be determined by the life we have
already shaped.
----Rose Kennedy
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
----Oprah Winfrey
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has
already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
----Kahlil Gibran
Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one
sitting. It needs continual and regular top up's.
----Peter Davies
Bite off more than you can chew and then chew like hell.
----Peter Brock
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
----Alexander Solzenitsyn
"Courage is Resistance to Fear Mastery of Fear - Not Absence of Fear."
----Mark Twain
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's
what sunflowers do."
----Helen Keller
To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
----Sister Mary Lauretta
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have
got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as
possible before handing it on to future generations.
----George Bernard Shaw
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
----Japanese Proverb
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
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
----Helen Keller
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.
----Mark Twain
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
----German Proverb
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in
mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire
makes a small amount of heat.
----Napoleon Hill
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of
strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
----Vincent T. Lombardi
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never
asks a question remains a fool forever.
----Tom Connelly
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live
as well to think.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at
doing what they most enjoy.
----Malcomb Forbes
People forget how fast you did a job--but they remember how well you did it.
----Howard W. Newton
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is
more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles
the world.
----Albert Einstein
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is
often merely the will to try it and faith to believe it is possible.
----Richard M. Devos
Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself from the others
because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never
get lost.
----M. H. McKee
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the
rain, there would be no rainbow.
----Jerry Chin
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say
is they must change if they are to get better."
----G. C. Lichtenberg
You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough,
you fight one more round.
----James Corbett
Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each
tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it
and it alone is life.
----Sanskrit poem
If you can dream it, you can do it.
----Walt Disney
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off
your goals.
----Author Unknown
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the tale
of Orpheus; it moves stones and charms brutes. It is the genius of
sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
----Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never
were and say "Why not?"
----Robert F. Kennedy
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
----Aristotle
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the
world, but to change it.
----Colin Wilson
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of
courage and true progress.
----Nicholas Murray Butler
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every
time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little
jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
----Dale Carnegie
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still
untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
----Dr. Dale Turner
Formal education will earn you a living, self-education make you a fortune.
----Unknown
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even
though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who
neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.
----Theodore Roosevelt
Success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become.
----Unknown
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
----Abraham Lincoln
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have
an opportunity and not be prepared.
----Whitney Young, Jr.
So little done, so much to do.
----Alexander Graham Bell (his last words)
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
----Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could
only do a little.
----Edmund Burke
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be
taken seriously.
----Nicholas Murray Butler
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
----George MacDonald
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
----Beverly Sills
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
----Aristotle
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
----Abraham Lincoln
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which
he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
----Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that
you won't have to work.
----Ogden Nash
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
----Kurt Lewin
There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or
two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
----Michel De Montaigne
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
----Christopher Morley
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
----Virginia Satir
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
----Albert Einstein
"The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong."
----William Randolph Hearst
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
----D. H. Lawrence
Don't wait for your ship to come in. Row out to meet it.
----Stevenson
If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane!
----Jimmy Buffett
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
----Emerson
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.
----Eva Young
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life; it goes on.
----Robert Frost
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
----Mark Twain
You only live once--but if you work it right, once is enough.
----Joe Lewis
A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes"
merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
----Mahatma Gandhi
Be courteous with all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried
before you give them your confidence.
----George Washington
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
----"Oscariana" by Oscar Wilde
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
----Danny Kaye
Spend each moment perfecting the next, not correcting the last.
----Scott Michael Durski
"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."
----John D. Rockefeller
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
----Goethe
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything
else is number two.
----Bernd Brecher
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as
well as think.
----Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is
senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out
people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to
learn whatever needs to be learned.
----John Holt
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
----Lyndon B. Johnson
It is funny about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the very best
you will very often get it.
----W. Somerset Maugham
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
----Chinese Proverb
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started
is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and
then starting on the first one.
----Mark Twain
Be the change you want to see in the world.
----Gandhi
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
----Martin Luther King, Jr.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work.
----Thomas Edison
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than
travel the worn paths of accepted success.
----John D. Rockefeller
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
----Bernard M. Baruch
The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing
new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men
who are creative, inventive and discoverers.
----Jean Piaget
Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what
happens to him.
----Aldous Huxley
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
----Charles F. Kettering
Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
----Napolean Hill
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't
believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people
who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find
them, make them.
----Unknown
Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and
refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.
----Anonymous
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
----William James
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without
action.
----Benjamin Disraeli
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your
character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what
others think you are.
----John Wooden
Do not confuse notoriety and fame with greatness...For you see, greatness
is a measure of one's spirit, not a result of one's rank in human affairs.
----Sherman Finesilver, Chief Judge, US District Court
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
----Dale Carnegie
I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward.
----David Livingstone
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is the difference of
opinion that makes horseraces.
----Mark Twain
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
----Samuel Butler
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing.
----Helen Keller
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And
nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
----Benjamin Disraeli
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose
guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire
of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
----Socrates, Greek philosopher
Once an opportunity has passed, it cannot be caught.
----Anonymous
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as
if he had failed.
----William James
Everyone had a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
----Jeremy Collier
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every
dream precedes the goal.
----Pamela Vaull Starr
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films,
comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like
old faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed
myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices
leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them
before they escape.
----Ray Bradbury
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