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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle What you seem to be, be really. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist & printer The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very very hard. -Helen Gurley Brown (1922 - ) Editor and writer, Cosmopolitan magazine The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. -Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter; first career: art salesman I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. -Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. -Neil Gaiman, Sandman Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky. -Ojibway proverb Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. - Max Ehrmann Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. - Saint Basil One of the greatest joys in life is to be in search of one thing and to discover another. - Anne Wilson Schaef May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. -John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) British writer & art critic The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -General H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - ) U.S. Army four-star general Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. -Desiderata The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. -Quintus Curtius Rufus Privacy is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too-individuals whose canvas is our lives. -Sue Halpern Too much metal. Too much fat. Too many jokes. Not enough meditation. -Allen Ginsberg Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American poet and essayist Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success. -Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist, inventor Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -Sun Tzu (c 500-320 bc) I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir (1898-1978) Prime Minister of Israel All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. =Henry Miller Look twice before you leap. -Charlotte Brontë Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. -D.H. Lawrence Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is. -Mason Cooley Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap. -Dorothy Corkville Briggs What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. -Mary Pickford (1893-1979) cofounder of United Artists, actress, Academy Award(r) winner It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint Exupery (1900-1944) French aviator and writer, wrote The Little Prince Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian painter, sculptor and inventor Logic and over-analysis can immobilize and sterilize an idea. It's like love-- the more you analyze it, the faster it disappears. -William Bernbach (1911-1982) pioneer of modern advertising, No. 1 on Advertising Age's 20th century honor roll of most influential people Never mistake motion for action. -Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) best-selling American writer As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. -Proverbs 27:17 Would you persuade, speak of Interest, not of Reason. -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright & poet I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. -Howard Schultz (1952- ) Chairman of Starbucks Coffee The fruits of life fall into the hands of those who climb the tree and pick them. -Earl Tupper (1907-1983) American business person, Tupperware inventor Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. -Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th president of the U.S. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything. -Katharine Hepburn Choose thy love. Love thy choice. -German proverb Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. -George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other man’s rights. -Abraham Lincoln We must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences. -John F. Kennedy It is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping. -Theodore Roosevelt We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government—a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance. -Gerald R. Ford Our Government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free. That civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt Chance favors only the prepared mind. -Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) French chemist & biologist In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German physicist Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -John Wooden (1910- ) Hall of Fame basketball coach of UCLA won a record 10 NCAA championships To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. -Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Indian missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly exceed them. -Thomas J. Watson (1874-1956) chairman of IBM statement made in 1943 He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other. -Japanese proverb Destiny is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice; it's not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved. -William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) US congressman, secretary of state, presidential nominee Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British writer, highest paid author in the world during the 1930s There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done by hesitation. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. Three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Johann Goethe (1749-1832) German dramatist, poet & novelist Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action, and purpose. - Lance Armstrong (1971- ) US cyclist, 5 time winner of the Tour de France, cancer survivor And all your future lies beneath your hat. - John Oldham The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day . . . a movement is only people moving. - Gloria Steinem It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. - John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. - 2 Corinthians 9:6 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson, Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) American broadcast journalist The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I practiced hard enough that the games were often easier. - Michael Jordan (1963- ) basketball player & business person regarded by many as the greatest basketball player who ever played the game If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. - Lee Iacocca (1924- ) American automobile executive Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed. - Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter In every area where people are successful there is a procedure. - Mark Victor Hanson The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American writer & philosopher The sleeping fox catches no poultry. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are. - Toni Morrison (1931- ) American editor, writer, teacher & first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th president of the U.S. If you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. - Helen Gurley Brown Speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. In conversation ask questions oftener than you express opinion; and when you speak offer data and information rather than beliefs and judgments. - Will Durrant If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don’t just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others. - Catherine Ponder Words are the keys to the heart. - Chinese proverb It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney (1901-1966), American entrepreneur, movie producer, and showman Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. - Helen Keller (1880-1968) American humanitarian, writer and advocate for the deaf and blind Circumstances-- what are circumstances? I make circumstances. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French general and emperor When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. - Jim Henson Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have what everyone else has and to have what no one else has. - Judith Stone Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver We must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage, and determination to succeed. - Rosalyn Yalow Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. - George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright & poet An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it. - William Bernbach (1911-1982) pioneer of modern advertising No. 1 on Advertising Age's 20th century honor roll of most influential people There can be no knowledge
without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France (1844-1924) French writer The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer, scientist & printer Man must cease attributing
his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will
and his personal responsibility. - Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) The time is always right to do what is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) civil rights leader There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. - Martin Luther King Jr. Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn. - Kalidasa There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. - Russell Bertrand The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. . . . Your life will always be filled with challenges. - Richard Carlson What we think, we become. - Buddha He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. - Dutch Proverb Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel (1883-1971)
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I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put the rout all that was not life. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - as quoted in Dead Poet Society
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. - Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Carpe diem!!!! - Dead Poet Society
Live in such a way that you'll have have good stories to tell your grand kids. - Chris Lee
It is wonderful what you can do when you have to. - C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) British novelist & essayist
Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Discipline is the bridge between goals & achievement. - Jim Rohn
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle
Your character is ... what you do when no one is watching. - ???
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. - B.C. Forbes.
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. - Thomas Edison (1847-1931) inventor, salesman; frequently worked more than 40 hours straight
That which we persist in doing becomes easier--not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ocean is made of drops of water. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) missionary, Nobel Peace Prize winner
You’ve got to think about ‘big things’ while you’re doing small things so that all the small things go in the right direction. - Alvin Toffler
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter; first career: art salesman
We must travel in the direction of our fear. - John Berryman
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs. - Euripides
You don't do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time. - Vince Lombardi
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. - Louis Pasteur
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. - Eleanor Roosevelt
The thought manifests as
the word; the word manifests as the deed; the deed develops into habit; and
habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love, born
out of concern for all beings.
As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. - Buddha
Self-discipline [is] an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. - Barbara Coloroso
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. - St. Francis de Sales
You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values. - Stephen R. Covey
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. - Stephen King
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. - Colin L. Powell
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. - B.C. Forbes (1880-1954) founder & publisher Forbes Magazine
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. - George Eliot
The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman, prime minister during WWII
If you are not working on your ideas each day, you're working on someone else's. - Marjorie Blanchard
If you don’t take control of your life, don’t complain when others do. - Beth Mende Conny
Become who you were born to be. - Elrond of Rivendell to Aragorn, son of Arathorn
All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you. - Gandalf the White
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. - Thomas Henry Huxley
Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. - Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th president of the U.S.
Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impuls to soar. - Helen Keller
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
He who begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin. - Horace
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly. - Dr. Robert Schuller
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. - Samuel Johnson
Sometimes you just have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. - Kobi Yamada
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Johann Goethe (1749-1832) German dramatist, poet & novelist
Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. - George Jackson
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) American poet
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel
Keep your passions in check, but beware of giving your reason free rein. - Karl Kraus
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Dr. Robert Schuller
One of these days is none of these days. - H.G. Bohn
You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
Every second is of infinite value. - Johann Goethe
Life is what happens when you are making other plans. - John Lennon (from Beautiful Boy- one of Heather's favourite songs.)
When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life... Time is the only wealth we're given. - Barbara Sher
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone. - Thomas Henry Huxley
But dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
Failure is only an opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist, inventor
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 34th president of the US
I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy. - Samuel Richardson
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius
Focus on what you are moving toward rather than what you are leaving behind. - Alan Cohen
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. - James Keller
Errors and mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. - Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) Hall of Fame football coach
Confidence is contagious. - Vince Lombardi
People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed. - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English critic & poet
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. - George "Papa Bear" Halas
In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value. - Lou Gerstner (former Chairman & CEO of IBM)
While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. - James P. Comer
Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th president of the US; kept the Union together during the Civil War and ended slavery
The world belongs to the
energetic. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American writer and
activist
I, Chris, need to work on this :)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. - George Bernard Shaw
Contiuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know. - Eric Allenbaugh.
I only eat the rude. Free range rude... - Hannibal Lecter
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Learn to pause....or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you. - Native American saying
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. - Harlan Ellison
You didn't have a choice
about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of
parent you will be. - Marian Wright Edelman
We got lucky though! :)
Live in such a way that you'll have have good stories to tell your grand kids.
Sack up! [ Or sack it up, as Janine & the Aussies say - :) ]
Don't f*#@ it up. Staying out of your own way will lead you to a great deal of success.
The balls to take the chance + the smarts to keep out of your own way + the character to keep on going no matter what equals success in the long run.