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- Mark Twain:
- "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but
the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
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- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans 1819-1880):
- "Decide what you think is right and stick to it."
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"If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" --Basil S. Walsh
"Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done." --Melvin Peebles
"Life is a risk." --Diane Von Furstenberg
"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." --Norman Ford
"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." --Col. Michael Friedsman
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive." --Federico Fellini
"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who *have* to dance." --George Balanchine
"My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own " --Elaine Maxwell
"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
"I am the master of my fate; /I am the captain of my soul." --William E. Henley
"I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up." --Beverly Sills
"When you're through changing, you're through." --Bruce Barton
"True eloquence consists of saying all that should be said, and that only." --Francois de La Rochefoucald
"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?" --Dolores Huerta
"To understand is to forgive - even oneself." --Alexander Chase
"The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable." --Eugene Kennedy
"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not." --Giacomo Leopardi
"If it's a good idea . . . go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." --Grace M. Hopper
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." --Oprah Winfrey
"A friend should bear his friend's infirmities." --William Shakespeare
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." --Marlene Dietrich
"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know that it has to get down to earth." --Pearl Buck
"To be a manager, you have to start at the bottom, no exceptions." --Henry Block
"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." --Ethel Barrymore
"If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill
"If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope." -- Max Gunther
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." -- Charles A. Beard
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought." --Matsuo Basho
"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser." --Susan Sontag
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." --Malcolm Forbes
"The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold." --G. K. Chesterton
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." --Coco Chanel
"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft." --Alan Watts
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." --Edward Simmons
"Look twice before you leap." --Charlotte Bronte
"The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days." --M.M. Coady
"Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day." --Darrell Royal
"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." --Harry Golden
"Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health." --Michel de Montaigne
"Audacity, more audacity, always audacity." --Georges Jacques Danton
"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
"I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead." --Anita Baker
"The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me." --Kate Capshaw
"It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success." --Robert Rawls
"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing." --Anais Nin
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
"One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say." --Voltaire
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." --Thomas Jefferson
"The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often." --Laura Palmer
"Let the past drift away with the water." --Japanese saying
"Concern should drive us into action and not into depression." --Karen Horney
"True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less." --William Hazlitt
"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." --Doris Mortman
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are." --Quentin Crisp
"If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?" --Fran Lebowitz
"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." --Gilda Radner
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." --Marie Curie
"The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year." --Thomas Dreier
"Trust you own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." --Billy Wilder
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." --William Gibbs McAdoo
"The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right." --Jill Ruckleshaus
"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others." --Blaise Pascal
"It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship." --Colette
"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." --Herbert Samuels
"The true test of character is...how we behave when we don't know what to do." --John Holt
"The imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling, and puttering." --Brenda Ueland
"Not all those who wander are lost." --J.R.R. Tolkien
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical." --Niels Bohr
"This is not a dress rehearsal. This is *It*." --Tom Cunningham
"'But' is a fence over which few leap." --German proverb
"The shortest answer is doing." --English proverb
"Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life." --Michael Leboeuf
"Living is entirely too time-consuming." --Irene Peter
"There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back." --Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." --Martha Washington
"Winning isn't everything. *Wanting* to win is." --Catfish Hunter, baseball pitcher
"Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit." --Rita Mae Brown
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." --Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." --Publius
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken." --Orson Rega Card
"You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself." --Pearl Bailey
"Fortune favors the brave." --Proverb
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices." --Henry David Thoreau
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." --Frank M. Hubbard
"Never invest you money in anything that eats or needs repairing." --Billy Rose
"If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice." --Norman Augustine
"Work hard at several projects. That way, no matter what is going wrong, something will be going right." -- Donna Hanover
"If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least." --Herman Melville (in Moby Dick)
"I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism, and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right." --Chick Corea
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." --Michel de Montaigne
"Man cannot live without self-control." --Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." --Seneca
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength." --Eric Hoffer
"The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss." --Diane Ravitch
"Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow." --Horace
"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?" --Robert Townsend
". . . this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down, but the staying down." --Mary Pickford
"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world." --Grace Paley
"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do--do it and let it speak for itself." --Martin Vanbee
"Action is the foundational key to all success." --Tony Robbins
"Leadership is action, not position." --Donald H. McGannon
"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve." --Nancy Hale
"It is never right to compromise with dishonesty." --Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
"The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones." --Solomon Ibn Gabirol
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." --John Henry Cardinal Newman
"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun." --Christina Rossetti
"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." --Bulgarian proverb
"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault." --Thomas Fuller
"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days." --Kathleen Andrus
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right." --Mario Cuomo
"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit." --German proverb
"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently." --Anatole France
"Who longest waits most surely wins." --Helen Hunt Jackson
"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." --Dolly Parton
"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." --Maxwell Maltz
"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who acts only on reflection." --Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues
"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." --Dr. Joyce Brothers
"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do." --Quintus Ennius
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." --Sally Kempton
"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself." --Charles W. Eliot
"Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door-neighbors." --Julius Hare
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong." -- Charlotte Bronte
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." --Erica Jong
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." --Gertrude Stein
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." --Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person." --Ethel Watts Mumford
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either." --Leo Burnett
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." --Stewart B. Johnson
"Hitch your wagon to a star." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle." --Dorothy Thompson
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." --Gail Sheehy
"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." --Elbert Hubbard
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." --Winston Churchill
"Never answer a critic, unless he's right." --Bernard Baruch
"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down." --Olive Schreiner
"Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy." --Henry Link
"No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." --Ellen Glasgow
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act." --Abraham Maslow
"Today is the blocks with which we build." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow." --Laura Palmer
"Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it." --Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Inches make a champion." --Vince Lombardi
"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality." --Woodrow Wilson
"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances." --Napoleon Bonaparte
"We will either find a way, or make one." --Hannibal
"You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it." --German proverb
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." --Doris Lessing
"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes." --Napoleon
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them." --Warren Bennis
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." --Anna Freud
"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." --Bruce Barton
"The less of routine, the more of life." A. B. Alcott
"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." --Michelangelo
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude." --Amy Tan
"And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope." --Job, 11:18
"No hope, no action." --Peter Levi
"Dare to be naive." --R. Buckminster Fuller
"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." --Agnes de Mille
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." --Washington Irving
"You don't just luck into things . . . You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities." --Barbara Bush
"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." --Don Sutton
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." --Dolly Parton
"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." --Saint Francis of Assisi
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." --Moliere
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps." --Henry Ford
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand/Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." --Julia Carney
"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." --Vincent van Gogh
"No one from the beginning of time has had security." Eleanor Roosevelt
"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." --William J. Locke
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." --Bishop W. C. Magee
"I made a mistake today. I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative." --Jerry Rubin
"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." --Lisa M. Amos
"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." --Mildred W. Struven
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." --Carl Rogers
"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone else has got to say." --Elizabeth C. Gaskell
"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated." --William James
"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time." --Duc de la Rochefoucald
"Man lives by praise; most of us would rather be hurt by flattery than helped by criticism." --Laurence J. Peter
"You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . .. Confidence makes the difference." --Chris Evert
"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." --Gloria Steinem
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." --Edmund Burke
"Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy." --Saul Alinsky
"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." --Frank A. Clark
"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue." --Alice Duer Miller
"A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness." --Fontenelle
"If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth." --Robert N. Coons
"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead." --Lily Langtry
"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points." --Taisen Deshimaru
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." --Seneca
"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for." --Florence Shinn
"Life is the sum of all your choices." --Albert Camus
"One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar." --Helen Keller
"Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous." --William Matthews
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job." --George Crane
"Always take a job that is too big for you." --Harry Emerson Fosdick
"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet." --Isaac Bashevis Singer
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible." --Miriam Schiff
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." --Diane Ackerman
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." --John A. Simone Jr.
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." --Michel de Montaigne
"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." --Robert G. Ingersoll
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." --Rita Mae Brown
"Things don't turn up in this world unless someone turns them up." --James A. Garfield
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Theodore Roosevelt
"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." --Thomas Carlyle
"Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlepper. I just do what I can do." --Bette Midler
"There is no failure except in no longer trying." --Elbert Hubbard
"The impossible is often the untried." --Jim Goodwin
"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." --Edward Gibbon
"There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" --Carrie Fisher
"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." --Kathleen Norris
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." --Irving Berlin
"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present." --James Petersen
"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love." --Mariah Burton Nelson
"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." --Heinz R. Pagels
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." --James Magary
"The computer is a moron." --Peter Drucker
"Success is a journey, not a destination." --Ben Sweetland
"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested." --Helen MacInness
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth." --Ed Howe
"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you." --Mae West
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity." --General Douglas MacArthur
"The way to be safe is never to be secure." --Benjamin Franklin
"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." --Benjamin Lipson
"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." --Horace
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." --Beverly Sills
"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." --Bob Hope
"If you see a tennis player who looks as if he's working very hard, then that means he isn't very good." --Helen Wills Moody
"If all the year were playing holidays/To sport would be as tedious as to work." --William Shakespeare
"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt." --Barbara Walters
"The thing we fear we bring to pass." --Elbert Hubbard
"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless." --Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"All the while thou studiest revenge, thou art tearing thine own wound open." --Thomas Fuller
"Living well is the best revenge." --George Herbert
"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." --Marcus Aurelius
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again." --Goethe
"Strong people don't need strong leaders." --Ella Baker
"Parents can only give advice or put [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." --Anne Frank
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." --James B. Conant
"Fortune favors the audacious." --Erasmus
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." --Flip Wilson
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson
"Out of the strain of the Doing, into the peace of the Done." --Julia Louise Woodruff
"Wake up with a smile and go after life . . .. Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it." --Joe Knapp
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." --Edmund Burke
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing." --Blasie Pascal
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." --Richard Steele
"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." --Beverly Sills
"People can bear anything." --Philip Slater
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things." --Katharine Graham
"When you see a snake, never mind where he came from." --W. G. Benham
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." --Henry David Thoreau
". . . in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on." --Francis Bacon
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." --James Thurber
"Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story." --Mary McCarthy
"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap." --Carrie Snow
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog." --Joseph Conrad
"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." --William Hazlitt
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." --T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." --Margaret Bonnano
"Statistics are no substitute for judgement." --Henry Clay
"Don't be humble. You're not that great." --Golda Meir
"A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do." --Vladimir Voinovich
"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." --Robert Copeland
"You'll find in no park or city/A monument to a committee." --Victoria Pasternack
"The ability to concentrate and use your time well is everything." --Lee Iacocca
"Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid." --Lady Bird Johnson
"It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive." --Federico Fellini
"Act as if it were impossible to fail." --Dorothea Brande
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it." --William James
"Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy." --Dale Carnegie
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." --Charles O. Finley
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions." --Confucius
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." --Friedrich Nietzsche
"Instinct is the nose of the mind." --Madame de Girardin
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." --Shakti Gawain
"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life." --Katharine Butler Hathaway
"I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process." --Oprah Winfrey
"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life." --Theodore Roosevelt
"You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go." --Jeannette Rankin
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." --Earl of Chesterfield
"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing." --Robert Burton
"Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." --John Updike
"I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't." --Lucille Ball
"Let us, then, be up and doing. / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing. / Learn to labor and to wait." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun? --Katharine Graham
"There is always room at the top." --Daniel Webster
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest." --John Keats
"Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack." --Napoleon
"The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do." --Leontyne Price
"Learning is discovering that something is possible." --Fritz Perls
"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful." --Jacqueline Bisset
"There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them." --Mark Rutherford
"No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare." --Baudeliare
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over." --Anuerin Bevan
"Attempt the impossible in order to improve you work." --Bette Davis
"If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies." --H. L. Mencken
"Courage calls to courage everywhere, and its voice cannot be denied." --Millicent G. Fawcett
"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see." Winston Churchill
"You cannot plan the future by the past." --Edmund Burke
"Oh! that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come." --Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
"Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs." --Andrew Carnegie
"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." --Ingrid Bergman
"Lost time is never found again." --Benjamin Franklin
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it, and not be smashed by it." --Ernest Hemingway
"I bend, but I do not break." --Jean de La Fontaine
"To be somebody you must last." --Ruth Gordon
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past." --André Maurois
"Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself." --Felix Adler
"It's going to be a long hard drag, but we'll make it." --Janis Joplin
"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg - not by smashing it." --Arnold Glasow
"Patience and perseverance at length / Accomplish more than anger or brute strength." --Jean de La Fontaine
"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities." --Cesare Pavese
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself." --Axel Munthe
"The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent, but in failing to use that one talent." --Edgar Watson Howe
"There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking." --Bliss Carmen
"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." --Robert Quillen
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." --Helen Keller
"Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it." --Thomas Eakins
"Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience." --Katherine Tingley
"It's never too late -in fiction or in life - to revise." --Nancy Thayer
"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation." --Oscar Wilde
"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second is disastrous." --Margaret Fontey
"We only do well the things we like doing." --Colette
"In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope." --Dr. Bernie Siegel
"Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty." --Dr. Martha Friedman
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." --George C. Scott
"Faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve." --Lillian Smith
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice." –Confucius
"What one has to do usually can be done." --Eleanor Roosevelt
"How to succeed: try hard enough. "How to fail: Try too hard." --Malcolm Forbes
"What cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed." --Thomas Fuller
"To me good health is more than just exercise and diet. It's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself." --Angela Lansbury
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present." --Albert Camus
"The first step is the hardest." --Madame De Vichy-Deffand
"Facing it - always facing it - that's the way to get through. Face it!" --Joseph Conrad
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck." --Katharine Hepburn
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy." --Howard W. Newton
"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning." --Billie Jean King
"Decisions determine destiny." --Frederick Speakman
"The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion." --Hannah Moore
"Optimism is an intellectual choice." --Diana Schneider
"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed." --Vincent van Gogh
"Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone." --Maya Angelou
"Crisis creates opportunity." --Walter Klores
"Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do." --John Milton
"Somebody's boring me; I think it's me." --Dylan Thomas
"Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius." --Georges de Buffon
"The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held." --Jane Addams
"Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time." --Isabelle Adfani
"What helps me to go forward is that I stay receptive. I feel that anything can happen." --Anouk Aimee
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit." --Bern Williams
"No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched." --George Jean Nathan
"When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul!" --Rabbi Harold Kushner
"He who laughs, lasts." --Mary Pettibone Poole
"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought." --Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"My center is giving way, my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking." --Marshal Ferdinand Foch
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." --Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened." --Lao-Tzu
"The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there." --Gene Brown
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt
"I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the largest number of creative reasons on its side." --Katharine Butler Hathaway
"To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will." --Judith Guest
"One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low." --Thomas Fuller
"It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires." --Rebecca West
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third." --Marge Piercy
"Happiness is a function of accepting what is." --Werner Erhard
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them." --Phyllis Bottome
"If . . . you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." --Catherine Aird
"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." --Marshal Ferdinand Foch
"Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful." --Raquel Welch
- Anonymous:
- "Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead."
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present."
"If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble."
"So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell."
"Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours."
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