tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68482087572978026992024-02-18T17:45:59.404-08:00Huithiang! QuotesMake yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge.
~Carmelia Elliot~Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-66090460763478530852010-04-25T15:02:00.000-07:002010-04-25T15:05:30.445-07:00MOTIVATIONAL QUOTESHeaven ne'er helps the man who will not help himself.<br />Sophocles<br /><br />The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.<br />Lao Tzu<br /><br />Industry is the parent of success.<br />Spanish Proverb<br /><br />Thought is the seed of action.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Self-trust is the first secret of success.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br /><br />When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.<br />Persian Proverb<br /><br />You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.<br />Seneca<br /><br />Lots of things that couldn't be done have been done.<br />Charles Auston Bates<br /><br />The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.<br />Edward Gibbon<br /><br />They can conquer who believe they can.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.<br />A. P. Stanley<br /><br />Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.<br />William Shakespeare <br /><br />Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.<br />Thornton Wilder<br /><br />The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.<br />Arthur C. Clarke<br /><br />Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.<br />Johann Gottfried Von Herder<br /><br />We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,<br />is not an act but a habit.<br />Aristotle<br /><br />Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.<br />Voltaire<br /><br />Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.<br />Benjamin Disraeli<br /><br />You cannot plough a field by<br />turning it over in your mind.<br />Author Unknown<br /><br />The best way out is always through.<br />Robert Frost<br /><br />Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.<br />William B. Sprague<br /><br />Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.<br />Samuel Johnson<br /><br />Fortune favors the brave.<br />Publius Terence<br /><br />He who hesitates is lost.<br />Proverb<br /><br />Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.<br />Confucius<br /><br />Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />Knowing is not enough; we must apply.<br />Willing is not enough; we must do.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />We are still masters of our fate.<br />We are still captains of our souls.<br />Winston Churchill<br /><br />Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />For hope is but the dream<br />of those that wake.<br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />Constant dripping hollows out a stone.<br />Lucretius<br /><br />Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--<br />a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.<br />Mary Shelley<br /><br />It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.<br />George S. Patton<br /><br />If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.<br />St. Clement of Alexandra<br /><br />We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />The great blessings of mankind are within us, and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. - Seneca<br /><br />Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body. - Seneca<br /><br />When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker<br /><br />Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. - Edward YoungUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-331093573131016492010-04-25T15:00:00.000-07:002010-04-25T15:02:07.888-07:00SPORTSSkill and confidence are an unconquered army.<br />George Herbert<br /><br />If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?<br />Joe Namath<br /><br />Victory belongs to the most persevering.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />You are the handicap you must face.<br />You are the one who must choose your place.<br />James Lane Allen<br /><br />Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.<br />George F. Will<br /><br />There are no gains without pains.<br />Adlai Stevenson<br /><br />If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.<br />William Edward Hickson<br /><br />To win without risk is to triumph without glory.<br />Corneille<br /><br />They can because they think they can.<br />Virgil<br /><br />They wil rise highest who strive for the highest place.<br />(Altius ibunt qui as summa nituntur.)<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />Never say die.<br />Proverb<br /><br />Most ball games are lost, not won.<br />Casey Stengel<br /><br />It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports.<br />What's tough is being good every day.<br />Willie Mays<br /><br />You are never a loser until you quit trying.<br />Mike Ditka<br /><br />If you can't accept losing, you can't win.<br />Vince Lombardi<br /><br />Nothing succeeds like success.<br />ProverbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-10567576325114241712010-04-25T14:59:00.000-07:002010-04-25T15:00:31.903-07:00DESTINYYou are what your deep, driving desire is.<br />As your desire is, so is your will.<br />As your will is, so is your deed.<br />As your deed is, so is your destiny.<br />Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV 4.5<br /><br />If we would see the color of our future, we must look for it in our present; if we would gaze on the star of our destiny, we must look for it in our hearts.<br />Canon Farrar<br /><br />Everywhere man blames nature and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions, his mistakes and weaknesses.<br />Democritus<br /><br />Love nothing but that which comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny. For what could more aptly fit your needs?<br />Marcus Aurelius<br /><br />It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ~ Winston Churchill<br /><br />Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.<br />Marcus Aurelius<br /><br />Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.<br />Joseph Joubert<br /><br />Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.<br />Virgil<br /><br />If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else.<br />Yogi Berra<br /><br />The destiny of man is in his own soul.<br />Herodotus<br /><br />Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.<br />Iris Murdoch<br /><br />The acts of this life are the destiny of the next. He hath no leisure who uses it not. He that will not reflect is a ruined man.<br />Eastern Proverb<br /><br />Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.<br />Henry Miller<br /><br />The tissue of life to be we weave with colors all our own,<br />And in the field of destiny we reap as we have sown.<br />John Greenleaf Whittier<br /><br />Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.<br />Orison Swett Marden<br /><br />A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.<br />Francois de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br />Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.<br />William Jennings BryanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-78904039205002715632010-04-25T14:58:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:59:08.406-07:00ACHIEVEMENTNo one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.<br />J. Paul Getty<br /><br />No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it.<br />Jean de La Bruyère<br /><br />Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality.<br />Practical dreamers do not quit.<br />Napoleon Hill<br /><br />Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.<br />Aldous Huxley<br /><br />Dreams seldom materialize on their own.<br />Dian Fossey<br /><br />Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.<br />Joseph Joubert<br /><br />Vigilance in watching opportunity; tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity; force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement — these are the martial virtues which must command success.<br />Austin Phelps<br /><br />I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.<br />Ovid<br /><br />Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.<br />Napoleon Hill<br /><br />The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance.<br />Gustavus F. Swift<br /><br />Shallow men believe in luck, strong men believe in cause and effect.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.<br />Alexander Hamilton<br /><br />Success is sweet, the sweeter if long delayed and attained through maulfold struggles and defeats.<br />A. Bronson Alcott<br /><br />Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it.<br />Rückert<br /><br />Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.<br />Carlyle<br /><br />If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike thou in swift with all boldness; the noble heart that understands and seizes quick hold of opportunity can achieve everything.<br />Johann Wolfgang von GoetheUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-6027514215243425832010-04-25T14:56:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:58:00.885-07:00FEAR OF FAILUREGo back a little to leap further.<br />John Clarke<br /><br />It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.<br />Theodore Roosevelt<br /><br />Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.<br />Thomas Hood<br /><br />Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.<br />Napoleon Hill<br /><br />Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.<br />Newell D. Hillis<br /><br />They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.<br />Thomas Bailey Aldrich<br /><br />We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.<br />Samuel Smiles <br /><br />I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.<br />John Keats<br /><br />It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.<br />Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.<br />Publius Syrus<br /><br />He that is down needs fear no fall.<br />John Bunyan<br /><br />Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.<br />George Herman "Babe" Ruth<br /><br />One who fears failure limits his activities.<br />Failure is only the opportunity to more<br />intelligently begin again.<br />Henry Ford<br /><br />The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.<br />Elbert Hubbard<br /><br />Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.<br />Washington Irving<br /><br />Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.<br />Oliver Goldsmith<br /><br />Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.<br />Nelson A. Rockefeller<br /><br />What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?<br />Vincent van Gogh<br /><br />The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.<br />Tom Browne<br /><br />Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.<br />James A. Froude<br /><br />It is the want of diligence, rather than the want of means, that causes most failures.<br />Alfred Mercier<br /><br />A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know.<br />For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.<br />Georges Clemenceau<br /><br />He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />There is no failure except in no longer trying.<br />Elbert Hubbard<br /><br />There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard.<br />The fearful are the failing.<br />Sarah J. Hale<br /><br />Disappointments are to the soul what thunderstorms are to the air.<br />Johann C. F. von Schiller<br /><br />Failure teaches success.<br />Japanese SayingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-21377005574456909132010-04-25T14:55:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:56:41.891-07:00VALUE OF EXPERIENCEExperience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.<br />Josh Billings<br /><br />Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.<br />William Wordsworth<br /><br />It is good to learn what to avoid by studying the misfortunes of others.<br />Publius Syrius<br /><br />The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.<br />Hosea Ballou<br /><br />All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take firm root in our personal experience.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />He knows the water best who has waded through it.<br />Danish Proverb<br /><br />If you would know the road ahead, ask someone who has traveled it.<br />Chinese Proverb<br /><br />Experience is by industry achieved<br />And perfected by the swift course of time.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />The years teach much which the days never know.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Those who come last enter with advantage.— They are born to the wealth of antiquity.— The materials for judging are prepared, and the foundations of knowledge are laid to their hands.—Besides, if the point was tried by antiquity, antiquity would lose it, for the present age is really the oldest, and has the largest experience to plead.<br />Collier<br /><br />All experience is an arch to build upon.<br />Henry Brook Adams<br /><br />Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.<br />Wendell Phillips<br /><br />Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.<br />John S. Hart<br /><br />That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.<br />Thomas à Kempis<br /><br />A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.<br />Oliver Wendall Holmes<br /><br />Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him.<br />Aldous Huxley<br /><br />Experience is the universal mother of sciences.<br />Miguel de Cervantes<br /><br />Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.<br />Benjamin Disraeli<br /><br />Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.<br />Lenoardo da VinciUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-20669004237471170562010-04-25T14:54:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:55:25.545-07:00CHARACTER BUILDINGYou cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.<br />Lord Chesterfield<br /><br />Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.<br />Thomas Paine<br /><br />Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.<br />Daniel Webster<br /><br />The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.<br />Joseph Le Conte<br /><br />It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.<br />J. Petit Senn<br /><br />A good name will shine forever.<br />Proverb<br /><br />A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.<br />Jeremy Taylor<br /><br />Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.<br />George Dana Boardman<br /><br />Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.<br />Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<br /><br />Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.<br />John C. Geikie<br /><br />Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.<br />J. B. Gough<br /><br />Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.<br />Cyrus A. Bartol<br /><br />In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.<br />Hippolyte Taine<br /><br />Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.<br />Arthur Schopenhauer<br /><br />Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.<br />Voltaire<br /><br />It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed.<br />William Winter<br /><br />Character and personal force are the only investments that are worth anything.<br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />Character is, for the most part,<br />simply habit become fixed.<br />C. H. Parkhurst<br /><br />Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character.<br />Johann Kasper Lavater<br /><br />Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.<br />George Dana Boardman<br /><br />Fate is character.<br />William Winter<br /><br />Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.<br />Marcus AureliusUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-263355684553346812010-04-25T14:51:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:52:34.832-07:00OVERCOMING ANXIETYDon't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />No longer forward nor behind<br />I look in hope and fear;<br />But grateful take the good I find,<br />The best of now and here.<br />John G. Whittier<br /><br />It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.<br />Henry Ward Beecher<br /><br />Be just, and fear not.<br />Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,<br />Thy God's and truth's.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.<br />Nichiren Daishonen<br /><br />Ask yourself this question:<br />"Will this matter a year from now?"<br />Richard Carlson, writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff <br /><br />Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.<br />Jonathan Edwards<br /><br />Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful.<br />Horace<br /><br />The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.<br />Seneca<br /><br />Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never happen.<br />James Russel Lowell<br /><br />How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.<br />Thomas Jefferson<br /><br />It is the trouble that never comes that causes the loss of sleep.<br />Chas. Austin Bates<br /><br />Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />We also deem those happy, who from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills and without descanting on their weight.<br />Junvenal<br /><br />Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.<br />Lucan<br /><br />I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.<br />Publius Syrus<br /><br />Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.<br />Horace<br /><br />He either fears his fate too much,<br />Or his deserts are small,<br />Who dares not put it to the touch<br />To gain or lose it all.<br />Marquis of Montrose<br /><br />The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,<br />and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.<br />Walter ScottUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-7914095697707011152010-04-25T14:50:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:51:09.622-07:00COMMUNICATIONBe silent, or say something better than silence.<br />Pythagoras<br /><br />Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.<br />Jonathan Swift<br /><br />It is as easy to draw back a stone, thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.<br />Menander<br /><br />Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.<br />Roger L'Estrange<br /><br />If the truth were self evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.<br />Cicero<br /><br />We never listen when we are eager to speak.<br />François de La Rochefoucauld<br /><br />He that converses not, knows nothing.<br />English Proverb<br /><br />It is good to rub and polish our brain<br />against that of others.<br />Montaigne<br /><br />My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts, never to heaven go.<br />William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 3<br /><br />Kind words are the music of the world.<br />F. W. Faber<br /><br />People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.<br />Josh Bilings<br /><br />Deliver your words not by number but by weight.<br />Proverb<br /><br />The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.<br />Seneca the Younger<br /><br />Silence is often advantageous.<br />Menander<br /><br />Many can argue - not many converse.<br />A. Bronson Alcott<br /><br />The less people speak of their greatness,<br />the more we think of it.<br />Sir Francis Bacon<br /><br />Language is the close-fitting dress of Thought.<br />R. C. Trench<br /><br />Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.<br />John Milton<br /><br />The first ingredient in conversation is truth:<br />the next good sense; the third, good humor;<br />and the fourth wit.<br />Sir William Temple<br /><br />True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.<br />Daniel WebsterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-70502637428708309872010-04-25T14:48:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:49:56.232-07:00PERSONAL GROWTHThe way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates<br /><br />The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.<br />Robert Cushing<br /><br />The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.<br />Cicero<br /><br />The only journey is the journey within.<br />Rainer Maria Rilke<br /><br />Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.<br />Menander<br /><br />Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,<br />Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.<br />Juvenal<br /><br />Men soon the faults of others learn<br />A few their virtues, too, find out;<br />But is there one—I have a doubt—<br />Who can his own defects discern?<br />Sanskrit Proverb<br /><br />Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.<br />Abd-el-Kadar<br /><br />If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.<br />Lord Chesterfield<br /><br />If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?<br />Lord Chesterfield<br /><br />Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.<br />William Thackeray<br /><br />He that will not reflect is a ruined man.<br />Asian Proverb<br /><br />Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.<br />Doug Firebaugh<br /><br />God ever works with those who work with will.<br />Aeschylus<br /><br />Insist on yourself. Never imitate.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Heaven never helps the man who will not act.<br />Sophocles<br /><br />Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.<br />Aristotle<br /><br />Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.<br />Edward Bulwer Lytton<br /><br />In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.<br />Philip Gilbert Hamilton<br /><br />What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.<br />Hecato, Greek philosopher<br /><br />We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.<br />James Freeman Clarke<br /><br />To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.<br />Plato<br /><br />Everybody wants to be somebody;<br />nobody wants to grow.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.<br />Hamerton<br /><br />We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.<br />Jean-Paul Sartre<br /><br />Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.<br />Herbert Otto<br /><br />Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.<br />Marquise du Deffand<br /><br />Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.<br />A. Bronson Alcott<br /><br />Energy and persistence conquer all things.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />If we all did the things we are capable of,<br />we would astound ourselves.<br />Thomas Edison<br /><br />A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.<br />La Rochefoucauld<br /><br />Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.<br />Swedish Proverb<br /><br />Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.<br />Miguel de Cervantes<br /><br />The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.<br />Sir William Temple<br /><br />Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.<br />Samuel JohnsonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-22839160319273304642010-04-25T14:47:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:48:16.839-07:00PERSEVERANCEOur greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.<br />Oliver Goldsmith<br /><br />The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.<br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />Press on! A better fate awaits thee.<br />Victor Hugo<br /><br />Perseverance is king.<br />Josh Billings<br /><br />The waters wear the stones.<br />The Book of Job 14:19<br /><br />Energy and persistence conquer all things.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.<br />Chinese Proverb<br /><br />Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.<br />Epictetus<br /><br />The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it.<br />Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<br /><br />Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect.<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.<br />C. W. Wendte<br /><br />I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.<br />Sir T. F. Buxton<br /><br />Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.<br />Bayard Taylor<br /><br />It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.<br />Washington Irving<br /><br />Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.<br />Louis Pasteur<br /><br />The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.<br />Lucretius 95 BC - From Perseverance: (persistence...endurance...persevere... ) - Happy Otter<br /><br />He who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces as to the idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.<br />John Foster<br /><br />Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.<br />Samuel Johnson<br /><br />Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee.<br />Marcus Aurelius<br /><br />It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.<br />ConfuciusUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-73551825106673624442010-04-25T14:46:00.001-07:002010-04-25T14:46:53.440-07:00MANAGEMENTThe art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.<br />Vince Lombardi<br /><br />(Also see Leadership Quotes)<br /><br />One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.<br />Calvin Coolidge<br /><br />What gets measured gets managed.<br />Peter Drucker<br /><br />Behind an able man there are always other able men.<br />Chinese Proverb<br /><br />Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.<br />Abraham Lincoln<br /><br />Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />Never give an order that can't be obeyed.<br />General Douglas MacAuthur<br /><br />Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.<br />John Churton Collins<br /><br />Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.<br />Tacitus<br /><br />An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />The measure of a man is what he does with power.<br />Greek Proverb<br /><br />The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.<br />Cicero<br /><br />If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.<br />Thomas Fuller<br /><br />To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath.<br />George Eliot<br /><br />Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.<br />ConfuciusUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-80055188861469776392010-04-25T14:44:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:45:47.287-07:00COOPERATIONDivide the fire and you will soon put it out.<br />Greek Proverb<br /><br />All for one and one for all.<br />Motto from the Three Musketeeers, by Alexandre Dumas<br /><br />Many hands make light work.<br />English Proverb<br /><br />Three, helping one another, bear the burden of six.<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.<br />Ethiopian Proverb<br /><br />No man is an island.<br />John Donne<br /><br />When was ever honey made with one bee in a hive?<br />Thomas Hood<br /><br />United we stand, divided we fall.<br />Aesop<br /><br />He who cannot help many hinders.<br />German Proverb<br /><br />A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.<br />Danish Proverb<br /><br />One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.<br />William Feather<br /><br />Unity is a precious diamond.<br />Holyday<br /><br />Light is the task where many share the toil.<br />Homer<br /><br />It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.<br />Michel de Montaigne<br /><br />If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.<br />Isaac NewtonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-52313027336276599982010-04-25T14:41:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:44:17.941-07:00SELF-IMPROVEMENTEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.<br />Socrates<br /><br />People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.<br />Oliver Goldsmith<br /><br />Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.<br />Mme. Du Deffand<br /><br />The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.<br />B. R. Haydon<br /><br />What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.<br />Thomas Sprat<br /><br />The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.<br />Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg<br /><br />In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.<br />Henry W. Longfellow<br /><br />What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.<br />Immanuel Kant<br /><br />Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.<br />Will Rogers<br /><br />Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.<br />Sir J. Stephen<br /><br />Discontent is the source of all trouble,<br />but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.<br />Berthold Auerbach<br /><br />Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!<br />Mazzini<br /><br />The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.<br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.<br />Never excuse yourself.<br />Henry Ward Beecher<br /><br />Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.<br />Sir William Jones<br /><br />Remedy your deficiencies,<br />and your merits will take care of themselves.<br />Edward Bulwer-Lytton<br /><br />Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.<br />Marcus Aurelius<br /><br />Everyone has naturally the power of excelling in some one thing.<br />Proverb<br /><br />Circumspection in calamity; mercy in greatness; good speeches in assemblies; fortitude in adversity: these are the self-attained perfections of great souls.<br />Hitopadesa<br /><br />Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.<br />Epictetus<br /><br />If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.<br />Sir Joshua Reynolds<br /><br />There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.<br />Hindu Proverb<br /><br />What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.<br />Saint Augustine<br /><br />Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.<br />Henry W. LongfellowUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-84979960169935702182010-04-25T14:40:00.001-07:002010-04-25T14:40:49.241-07:00THOUGHTSIt is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.<br />Michel de Montaigne<br /><br />We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.<br />Mao Tse-Tung<br /><br />Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.<br />Walter Lipman<br /><br />Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Words without thoughts never to heaven go.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Men give me some credit for genius. All the genius I have lies in this: When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I make is what the people call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.<br />Alexander Hamilton<br /><br />The aim of education should be to teach us how to think, rather than what to think.<br />James Beattie<br /><br />What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and the thinking.<br />Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br />We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />The less men think, the more they talk.<br />Baron Montesquieu<br /><br />Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.<br />Confucius<br /><br />The universe is change;<br />our life is what our thoughts make it.<br />Marcus Aurelius<br /><br />But words are things, and a small drop of ink<br />Falling like dew upon a thought, produces<br />That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.<br />Sir Aubrey De Vere<br /><br />Thoughts rule the world.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it.<br />Henry Ford<br /><br />The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself, and is capable of thinking hard and long.<br />Charles W. Eliot<br /><br />They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.<br />Sir Philip Sidney<br /><br />Change your thoughts and you change your world.<br />Norman Vincent Peale<br /><br />Obvious thinking commonly leads to wrong judgments and wrong conclusions.<br />Humphrey B. Neil<br /><br />Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.<br />R. C. TrenchUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-90961223083305984702010-04-25T14:38:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:39:26.782-07:00IMAGINATIONThe imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason,<br />-- over every idea.<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.<br />James Russel Lowell<br /><br />Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.<br />Louisa May Alcott<br /><br />Imagination is more important than knowledge.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet.<br />Joseph Joubert<br /><br />Hope is the dream of a man awake.<br />French Proverb<br /><br />A strong imagination begetteth opportunity.<br />Michel de Montaigne<br /><br />Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />Where beams of imagination play,<br />The memory's soft figures melt away.<br />Alexander Pope<br /><br />Believe that you have it, and you have it.<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.<br />Henry Ward Beecher<br /><br />Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.<br />Horace<br /><br />Imagination is the eye of the soul.<br />Joseph Joubert<br /><br />You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.<br />Mark TwainUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-86316251522800633622010-04-25T14:37:00.001-07:002010-04-25T14:37:57.765-07:00INSPIRATIONAL QUOTESTry not to become a man of success but a man of value.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.<br />Now put foundations under them.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />Inspiration and genius--one and the same.<br />Victor Hugo<br /><br />To find what you seek in the road of life,<br />the best proverb of all is that which says:<br />"Leave no stone unturned."<br />Edward Bulwer Lytton<br /><br />If you would create something,<br />you must be something.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />Every artist was first an amateur.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.<br />Horace Bushnell<br /><br />Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.<br />W. C. Doane<br /><br /><br />Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?<br />George Eliot<br /><br />No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Men do less than they ought,<br />unless they do all they can.<br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />Men's best successes come after their disappointments.<br />Henry Ward Beecher.<br /><br />Let thy words be few.<br />Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom<br /><br />Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.<br />Leon J. Suenes<br /><br />The power of imagination makes us infinite.<br />John Muir<br /><br />First say to yourself what you would be;<br />and then do what you have to do.<br />EpictetusUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-15841746320917125302010-04-25T14:35:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:36:27.845-07:00BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTSNature and wisdom never are at strife.<br />Plutarch<br /><br />It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.<br />Francois De La Rochefoucauld<br /><br />The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.<br />William James<br /><br />The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.<br />Solomon Ibn Gabriol<br /><br />Years teach us more than books.<br />Berthold Auerbach<br /><br />The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,<br />which are brief and pithy.<br />William Penn<br /><br />The middle course is the best.<br />Cleobulus<br /><br />The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.<br />Thomas Huxley<br /><br />A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,<br />a fool by his own.<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />Silence does not always mark wisdom.<br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge.<br /><br />No man was ever wise by chance.<br />Seneca<br /><br />Not to know at large of things remote<br />From use, obscure and subtle, but to know<br />That which before us lies in daily life,<br />Is the prime wisdom.<br />John Milton<br /><br />By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.<br />Menander<br /><br />The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom,<br />in the heart.<br />William Hazlitt<br /><br />Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.<br />John Tillotson<br /><br />The more a man knows, the more he forgives.<br />Catherine the Great<br /><br />A loving heart is the truest wisdom.<br />Charles Dickens<br /><br />One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.<br />Alexander Chase<br /><br />How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!<br />Homer<br /><br />On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,<br />In every rill a sweet instruction flows.<br />Edward Young<br /><br />The man of wisdom is never of two minds;<br />the man of benevolence never worries;<br />the man of courage is never afraid.<br />ConfuciusUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-17218336808295256732010-04-25T14:34:00.001-07:002010-04-25T14:34:53.922-07:00MONEYMoney can't buy everything--for example poverty.<br />Nelson Algren<br /><br />Soon gotten, soon spent; ill gotten, ill spent.<br />John Heywood<br /><br />A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.<br />Bendixline<br /><br />Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.<br />Epicurus<br /><br />If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br />from Quotations About Spending Money<br /><br />I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.<br />Napoleon I<br /><br />Men do not understand how great a revenue is economy.<br />Cicero <br /><br />Poverty is a blessing hated by all men.<br />Italian Proverb<br /><br />If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other world?<br />Ben Franklin<br /><br />The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.<br />Washington Irving<br /><br />Money alone sets all the world in motion.<br />Publius Syrus<br /><br />Put not your trust in money,<br />but put your money in trust.<br />Oliver Wendell Holmes<br /><br />If money go before, all ways do lie open.<br />William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor<br /><br />Money amassed either serves us or rules us.<br />Horace<br /><br />Money talks, but all it ever says is good-bye.<br />American Proverb<br /><br />A full purse is not as good as an empty one is bad.<br />Yiddish ProverbUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-45734006548755496412010-04-25T14:32:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:33:29.382-07:00IMPORTANT QUOTESIf we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true,<br />there would be little hope of advance.<br />Orville Wright<br /><br />When I want to read a novel, I write one.<br />Benjamin Disraeli<br /><br />In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.<br />Galileo Galilei<br /><br />You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life<br />Winston Churchill<br /><br />Play for more than you can afford to<br />lose and you will learn the game.<br />Winston Churchill<br /><br />Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.<br />Chinese Proverb<br /><br />Never say more than is necessary.<br />Richard Brinsley Sheridan<br /><br />You must be the change you wish to see in the world.<br />Mahatma Ghandi<br /><br />There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....<br />Martin Luther<br /><br />That which does not kill you makes you stronger.<br />Neitzsche<br /><br />It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.<br />Chinese Proverb<br /><br />Anyone who has never made a mistake<br />has never tried anything new.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.<br />Ovid<br /><br />The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do.<br />His reply: "Do not do what you are doing now."<br />Joseph Ray<br /><br />If you don't know where you are going,<br />you'll end up some place else.<br />Yogi Berra<br /><br />When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.<br />Helen Keller<br /><br />There is time for everything.<br />Thomas A. Edison<br /><br />Every generation laughs at the old fashions,<br />but religiously follows the new.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.<br />Firdtjof Nansen<br /><br />Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.<br />Johnette Napolitano<br /><br />You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.<br />Heraclitus<br /><br />Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.<br />Leo Tolstoy<br /><br />The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.<br />Bernard M. Baruch<br /><br />The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.<br />Richard Cech<br /><br />Imagination is more important than knowledge.<br />Albert Einstein<br /><br />Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />We don't live in a world of reality,<br />we live in a world of perceptions.<br />Gerald J. Simmons<br /><br />The first and greatest commandment is,<br />Don't let them scare you.<br />Elmer DavisUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-6750832266600345432010-04-25T14:29:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:31:55.966-07:00DEALING WITH OTHERSYou must look into other people as well as at them. Lord Chesterfield<br /><br />A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness gathers love.<br />Basil<br /><br />A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.<br />Lord Chesterfield<br /><br />The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them.<br />J. G. Holland<br /><br />To rejoice in another's prosperity, is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another's grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.<br />Thomas Edwards<br /><br />Hear the meaning within the word.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />Charity, good behaviour, amiable speech, unselfishness — these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity.<br />Burmese Proverb<br /><br />Kind words are the music of the world.<br />F. W. Faber<br /><br />We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.<br />Denis Diderot<br /><br />Arguing with a fool proves there are two.<br />Doris M. Smith<br /><br />Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;<br />and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.<br />George Washington<br /><br />Look to be treated by others<br />as you have treated others.<br />Publius Syrus<br /><br />SuccessLet us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half of the evil they say of others.<br />J. Petit Senn<br /><br />The more you say, the less people remember.<br />François Fénelon<br /><br />Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.<br />William Thackeray<br /><br />The soul of conversation is sympathy.<br />Thomas Campbell<br /><br />It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.<br />George Eliot<br /><br />Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.<br />William Ellery Channing<br /><br />Learn to regard the souls around you as parts of some grand instrument. It is for each of us to know the keys and stops, that we may draw forth the harmonies that He sleeping in the silent octaves.<br />Anonymous<br /><br />If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.<br />Epictetus<br /><br />In many things it is not well to say, "Know thyself"; it is better to say, "Know others."<br />Menander<br /><br />The less people speak of their greatness,<br />the more we think of it.<br />Lord Bacon<br /><br />He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is in possession of some of the best requisites of man.<br />Johann Casper Lavater<br /><br />Men are more mindful of wrongs than of benefits.<br />Proverb<br /><br />A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.<br />John Tillotson<br /><br />It requires less character to discover the faults of others than is does to tolerate them.<br />J. Petit Senn<br /><br />Do not forget small kindnesses and do not remember small faults.<br />Chinese Proverb in life, in anything,<br />depends upon the number of persons<br />that one can make himself agreeable to.<br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.<br />Jean Paul RichterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-132127535559988562010-04-25T14:27:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:29:36.701-07:00LEADERSHIPDo not follow where the path may lead.<br />Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.<br />Harold R. McAlindon<br />(also attributed to Emerson and others)<br /><br />Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.<br />Dwight D. Eisenhower<br /><br />There go the people.<br />I must follow them for I am their leader.<br />Alexandre Ledru-Rollin<br /><br />The history of the world is but the<br />biography of great men.<br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.<br />Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<br /><br />A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.<br />General Douglas MacArthur<br /><br />The real leader has no need to lead--<br />he is content to point the way.<br />Henry Miller<br /><br />Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.<br />Lao Tzu<br /><br />A leader is a dealer in hope.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.<br />Noah Porter<br /><br />If your actions inspire others to dream more,<br />learn more, do more and become more,<br />you are a leader.<br />John Quincy Adams<br /><br />He who has never learned to obey<br />cannot be a good commander.<br />Aristotle<br /><br />The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.<br />Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />(from Christian Leadership World)<br /><br />Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.<br />Publilius Syrus<br /><br />A leader is a dealer in hope.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.<br />George Patton<br />(from Big Dog's Quotes)<br /><br />Where there is no vision, the people perish.<br />Proverbs 29:18<br /><br />Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.<br />Horace<br /><br />In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.<br />Henry W. Longfellow<br /><br />I light my candle from their torches.<br />Robert Burton<br /><br />Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.<br />Woodrow Wilson<br /><br />The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.<br />Publius Syrus<br /><br />A bold onset is half the battle.<br />Giuseppe Garibaldi<br /><br />The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.<br />Cornelius Nepos<br /><br />To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.<br />James Thomas<br /><br />Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.<br />Edmund Spenser<br /><br />He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.<br />Solon<br /><br />When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.<br />Napoleon Bonaparte<br /><br />No man can stand on top because he is put there.<br />H. H. Vreeland<br /><br />A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.<br />Ovid<br /><br />It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.<br />Seneca<br /><br />No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.<br />Abraham Lincoln<br /><br />What you cannot enforce /<br />Do not command.<br />Sophocles<br /><br />No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.<br />Philip Armour<br /><br />To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.<br />Friedrich Nietzsche<br /><br /><br />It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)<br />Latin Proverb<br /><br />Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.<br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.<br />PolybiusUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-7658224352815524172010-04-25T14:26:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:27:42.469-07:00TIMETime and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.<br />Henri Frederic Amiel<br /><br />Dost thou love life, then do not squander time,<br />for that's the stuff life is made of.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />Time in its aging course teaches all things.<br />Aeschylus<br /><br />Make use of time, let not advantage slip.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.<br />Chinese Proverb<br /><br />You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.<br />Charles Bruxton<br /><br />I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.<br />Earl of Chesterfield<br /><br />To do two things at once is to do neither.<br />Publius Syrus<br /><br />A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.<br />Charles Darwin<br /><br />The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.<br />Steven W. Hawking<br /><br />Time and tide wait for no man.<br />Geoffrey Chaucer<br /><br />I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.<br />Gloria Steinem from<br />Work at Home Moms - Time Management Tips<br /><br />Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.<br />English Proverb<br /><br />He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost.<br />Thomas Fuller<br /><br />Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.<br />Lord Chesterfield<br /><br />Spare moments are the gold dust of time.<br />Bishop Hail<br /><br />The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.<br />Seneca<br /><br />Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.<br />William E. Gladstone<br /><br />You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.<br />Horace Mann<br /><br />Advancing time sifts and cleanses all alike.<br />Aeschylus<br /><br />Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare.<br />Thomas Fuller<br /><br />To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best.<br />John Hall Gladstone<br /><br />Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.<br />Marcel Proust<br /><br />Time is a physician which heals every grief.<br />Diphilus<br /><br />Gaining time is gaining everything in love, trade and war.<br />John Shebbeare<br /><br />Time is money.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.<br />Sir Matthew Hale<br /><br />Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />He who know most grieves most for wasted time.<br />DanteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-46406768467344549452010-04-25T14:25:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:26:30.866-07:00HAPPINESSWhen one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.<br />Helen Keller<br /><br />Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.<br />Aristotle<br /><br />Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.<br />Democritus<br /><br />People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.<br />George Matthew Allen<br /><br />In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.<br />Albert Schweitzer<br /><br />Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.<br />Aldous Huxley<br /><br />There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.<br />David Burns, Intimate Connections<br /><br />The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.<br />Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br /><br />Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.<br />John M. Good<br /><br />Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.<br />Charles Caleb Colton<br /><br />Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.<br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.<br />from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett<br /><br />Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.<br />Alice Meynell<br /><br />Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.<br />Epictetus<br /><br />Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.<br />Benjamin Franklin<br /><br />There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.<br />Epictetus<br /><br />I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.<br />John Stuart Mills<br /><br />You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.<br />Robert F. Kennedy<br /><br />Action may not always bring happiness;<br />but there is no happiness without action.<br />Benjamin Disraeli<br /><br />Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.<br />William Ellery Channing<br /><br />There is more to life than increasing its speed.<br />Mahatma Ghandi<br /><br />The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.<br />Henry W. Longfellow<br /><br />Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.<br />Douglas Jerrold<br /><br />Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.<br />J. Petit Senn<br /><br />To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.<br />Albert Camus<br /><br />Happiness depends upon ourselves.<br />Aristotle<br /><br />Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.<br />Thomas Fuller<br /><br />Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.<br />George Santayana<br /><br />No man is happy who does not think himself so.<br />Publilius Syrus<br /><br />Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.<br />Charles Caleb ColtonUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848208757297802699.post-26560537533651501312010-04-25T14:23:00.000-07:002010-04-25T14:25:08.274-07:00ADVERSITYThere is no education like adversity.<br />Benjamin Disraeli<br /><br />In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.<br />John Churton Collins<br /><br />Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.<br />Ralph Blum<br /><br />It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.<br />Isaac Asimov<br /><br />Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.<br />French Proverb<br /><br />It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.<br />Washington Irving<br /><br />The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.<br />Confucius <br /><br />All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.<br />Henry David Thoreau<br /><br />Fractures well cured make us more strong.<br />Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.<br />Horace<br /><br />Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.<br />Ovid<br /><br />The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.<br />Henry W. Longfellow<br /><br />Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.<br />Horace<br /><br />Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.<br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br />A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.<br />Confucius<br /><br />Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.<br />Washington Irving<br /><br />Difficulties strengthen the mind,<br />as well as labor does the body.<br />Seneca<br /><br />Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.<br />Charles Caleb Colton<br /><br />The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.<br />Danish Proverb<br /><br />Obstacles are great incentives.<br />Jules Michelet<br /><br />In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.<br />Albert Careb<br /><br />A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb<br /><br />Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.<br />Henry J. Kaiser<br /><br />Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.<br />E. E. Hale<br /><br />What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.<br />Proverb<br /><br />Sweet are the uses of adversity,<br />Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,<br />Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.<br />William Shakespeare<br /><br />It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.<br />Louis Kossuth<br /><br />I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.<br />Robert Southey<br /><br />Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.<br />Nelson A. Rockefeller<br /><br />Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.<br />William Hazlitt<br /><br />Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.<br />Christian Nestell Bovee<br /><br />A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,<br />We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;<br />But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,<br />As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.<br />William ShakespeareUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0