Quotes For You 31-01-12

“The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become”

• Charles Dubois

“When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail”

• Anonymous

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper”

• Francis Bacon

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Quotes For You 12-01-12

“EXCELLENCE: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act … but a habit!”

• Aristotle

“There are two levers for moving men: interest & fear”

• Napolean Bonaparte

“If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming”

• John B. Gough

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Quotes For You 21-12-11

“They created a desolation and they called it peace!”

• Tacitus

“A person who is fundamentally honest doesn’t need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs”

• Harry S. Truman

“What experience and history teach is this – that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it”

• Georg W. Hegel

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Quotes For You 05-12-11

“Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster”

• Anne Willson Schaef, Psychotherapist

“It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!”

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Temper justice with mercy”

• John Milton

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Quotes For You 27-10-11

“Life happens at the level of events, not words.”

• Alfred Adler

“I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

• George Washington

“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all”

• Georg Lichtenberg

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Quotes For You 07-10-11

“There is no such thing as a ‘self-made’ man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success”

• George Matthew Adams

“Success is when reality exceeds expectations”

• John D. Gerhart

“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it”

• Harold S. Hulbert

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Quotes For You 27-09-11

“It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself”

• Muhammad Ali

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be”

• William Shakespeare

“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

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“It is difficult to see the picture when you are inside the frame”

• R.S. Trapp

“Study the past if you would define the future”

• Confucius

“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws”

• Amschel Mayer Rothschild

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“Victory belongs to the most persevering”

• Napoleon

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten”

• B.F. Skinner

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece”

• John Ruskin

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“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing”

• Publilius Syrus

“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire”

• John W Foster

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches”

• Claude McDonald

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“The undertaking of a new action brings new strength”

• Evenius, Writer

“It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit”

• Noel Coward

“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all  human perception”

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. …. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours”.

• Noela Evans

“You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character”.

• Marquis De Vauvenargues

“The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions”.

• Robert Lynd

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“Life is an escalator:  You can move forward or backward; you cannot remain still”

• Patricia Russell-McCloud, Motivational speaker

“Love talked about is easily turned aside, but Love demonstrated is irresistible”

• Stanley Mooneyham

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity”

• Oprah Winfrey

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“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

“Only you can be yourself.  No one else is qualified for the job”

• Anonymous

“Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow”

• Edwin Teale

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“Worry is a misuse of the imagination”

• Dan Zadra, Business executive

“We create our fate every day we live”

• Henry Miller

“All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual”

• Honore de Balzac

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“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails”

• Bertha Calloway, Founder of the Great Plains Black Museum

“Life is not important except for the impact it has on other’s lives”

• Epitaph on Jackie Robinson’s headstone

“Habits are like supervisors that you don’t notice”

• Hannes Messemer

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“There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke”

• J. J. Proctor

“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”

• John Hersey

“Keep changing.  When you’re through changing, you’re through”

• Bruce Barton

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“To teach is to learn twice”

• Joseph Joubert

“Victory awaits those who have everything in order. People call this luck”

• Roald Amundson (polar explorer)

“Like Umbrellas, Minds only function when Opened!”

• Unknown

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“There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity”

• General Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964)

“Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is”

• Sir Winston Churchill

“SUCCESS doesn’t come to you. You Go To It!”

• Unknown

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“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist”

• Dom Helder Camara

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do”

• Frey Madeline Stark, Travel writer

“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, Motivational author

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“We have met the enemy and they are us!”

• Walt Kelley, “Pogo”

“The future is purchased by the present”

• Samuel Johnson

“In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first-ahead of personal glory”

• Paul Bear Bryant

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“I am a part of all I have read”

• John Kieran

“Leaders are the custodians of a nation’s ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals”

• Walter Lippmann

“I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand”

• Confucius

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• Hannes Messemer

“Beware of opinion dressed as fact”

• Unknown (Thanks Kareen Samsing for this one!)

“One word of truth outweighs the whole world”

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

• Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, 1/13, 1813

What counts is not the number of hours you put in, but how much you put in the hours.

• Unknown Author

There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world.

• Thomas Jefferson

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“Time goes, you say?  Ah no!  Alas, Time stays, we go”

• Henry Austin Dobson

“I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave”

• E. M. Forster

“Only in a novel are all things given full play.”

• D. H. Lawrence

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Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

• Seneca

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much.

• Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

• Elmer G. Leterman, Business executive

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“Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used until they are seasoned”

• Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Words once spoken, can never be recalled”

• Wentworth Dillon

“It’s very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space”

• Thomas K Mattingly II, Apollo 16 Astronaut

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“It is terrible to speak well and be wrong”

• Sophocles

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us”

• Joseph Campbell

“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know”

• Alexis Carrel

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“One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire”

• John W Foster

“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people”

• Edward Benson

“n the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”

• Erasmus

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“I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back”

• Abraham Lincoln

“The tragedy is not that things are broken.  The tragedy is that they are not mended again”

• Alan Patton

“The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak”

• Jacques Benigne Bossuet

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“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become”

• Charles du Bos (1882-1939)

“The eye is the jewel of the body”

• Henry David Thoreau

“The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn’t, you’ve got a long adventure in the dark forest ahead of you”

• Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

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“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise”

• Samuel Lover

“The discontented man finds no easy chair”

• Benjamin Franklin

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire–then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience”

• Robert Fulghum

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All too often the difference between success and failure, progress and regress, happiness and depression–and, yes, balance and imbalance–is simply a matter of perspective.

• Paul Wilson

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

• Fernando Flores

Necessity does the work of courage.

• George Eliot

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• Carlton Young

Each day comes bearing its  own gifts.  Untie the ribbons.

• Ruth Ann Schabacker

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

• Matthew Arnold

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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

• William Henry Hudson (1841-1922)

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

• Harriet Braiker

We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

• Rutherford D. Rogers

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You understand human nature when you are never surprised by anything it does.

• Vernon Howard (1918-1992)

No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green.

• Rudyard Kipling

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

• John Dryden

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“The history of progress is people challenging assumptions.”

• Orville & Wilbur Wright

“Some people will see the light only when they feel the heat.”

• Unknown

“You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.”

• Charles C. Noble

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• Benjamin Franklin

“The essence of immortality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”

• Jane Addams

“Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.”

• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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• Henry David Thoreau

“Strategic planning is worthless — unless there is first a strategic vision.”

• John Naisbitt

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never”.

• Unknown

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“My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper.”

• Joseph Hunter

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

• Unknon

“We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop
playing.”

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• John Powell

When your conscience says law is immoral, don’t follow it.

• Jack Kevorkian, Doctor

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

• Truman Capote

• Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a  literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

• Anais Ninn

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

• Thomas Paine

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“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong–or absolutely right”.

• Albert Guinon (1863-1923)

“If you don’t move on you’ll have nothing to look back on.”

• Emma Victoria

“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.”

• Unknown

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• Alex Haley

The most exhausting thing in life…is being insincere.

• Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.

• Eric Hoffer

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It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is  letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but  will soon be out of date.

• Roger von Oech

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

• Vince Lombardi

Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t  so important. You can get both these things. What is  important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main  asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can  do with your business and your life.

• Harvey Firestone

• Roger von Oech

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

• Vince Lombardi

Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t  so important. You can get both these things. What is  important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main  asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can  do with your business and your life.

• Harvey Firestone

• George Orwell

You must rouse into people’s consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

• Marquis De Vauvenargues

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing-that’s why we recommend it daily.

• Zig Ziglar

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• Ogden Nash

I play to win even when common sense should tell me that I no longer have a chance. Even when I have been playing at my worst, or when all the breaks have been going against me, I approach each new day, each new hole, as a glorious opportunity to get going again.”

• Arnold Palmer

A great ship asks deep waters

• George Herbert

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign  you’re not doing anything very innovative.

• Woody Allen

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old  problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination  and marks real advance in science.

• Albert Einstein

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Reflect on your present blessings ? of which every man has many ? not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

• Charles Dickens

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

• George Orwell

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

• Michael Porter