My Quote Book

8/7/2019 My Quote Book

1/25

QUOTES

********************************************************************************************************************The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. AnnaQuindlen

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. Unknown

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. Robert Browning

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. Edgar Cayce

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?

And what if, in your dream, you went to heavenand there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?Ah, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. Thisspecial secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy. Walt Disney

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." MarcusAelius Aurelius

"The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get

started." Norman Cousins

"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."Tryon Edwards

"Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." Burton Hills

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."Henri-Frdric Amiel

"No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . ."Isaac Asimov


2/25

********************************************************************************************************************"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties."Sir Francis Bacon

"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth Aesop

What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do. Aristotle

"Every great decision creates ripples--like a huge boulder dropped in a lake. The ripples merge, rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways.The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." Ursula K. LeGuin

"Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose

and in the right way - that is not easy." Aristotle"When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth,and then we are angry at being undervalued." Julia Margaret Cameron

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." Confucius

"Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one." Benjamin Franklin

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help." Dr. Thomas Fuller

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Joseph Addison

"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is." Diane Ackerman

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Joseph Addison

"Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything." Henri-Frdric Amiel

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." Margaret Anderson

"The highest love of all finds its fulfillment not in what it keeps, but in what it gives." Father Andrew SDC

"The one who loves the least, controls the relationship." Robert Newton Anthony

"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." Janos Arnay"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anon.

"Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny." - Kamran Hamid

"Leap and the net will appear." - Julie Cameron

"Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." - Anon.

"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth." - Shira Tehran


3/25

***********************************************************************************************************

"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind." PaulAubuchon

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the handsof others!" Paul Aubuchon

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre mind. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may never forgive you. Encourage me, and I

may not forget you. Sir William Arthur

I do not believe today everything that I believed yesterday; I wonder if I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.Matthew Arnold

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. Dinah Mulock Craik

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter. Unknown

What lies behind us and what lies before us, Are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principles contain it or stand against it. Jane Smiley

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. David Garner

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments. Henry Ward Beecher

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.Albert Schweitzer

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Mark Twain

Motivation is what gets you started, Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an explanation point. Thats the basic spelling that everyone should know.Jeanne Bourgeois

Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week." - Anon.

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - Anon.

"The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing." - Anon.


4/25

********************************************************************************************************************

If you dont risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong

BE who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind dont matter and those who dont matter dont mindDr. Seuss

It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but a lifetime to forget someone. Unknown

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Albert Einstein

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, While loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu

We are all faced with a series of opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. Charles R. Swindol

Learn everything you can, any time you can, from anyone you can- there will always come a time when you will be greatful you did. Sarah

Caldwell

Dont wait for extraordinary opportunities, Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities;Strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden

Lifes up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals- Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones tobuild the life you want. Marsha Sinetar

Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. Anthony Robbins

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

If you dont go after what you want, youll never have it. If you dont ask, the answer is always no. If you dont step forward, yourealways in the same place. Nora Roberts

Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and uttercontrol about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrillyou, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment. Abraham-Hicks

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.Who looks outside, dreams;Who looks inside, awakens Carl Jung

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness not because they never found it, but because they didnt stop to enjoy it. W. Feather

Advice is what you ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didnt. Erica Jong

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes ofothers. Eileen Caddy

"One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us." - Michael Cibenko

"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it." - Anon.

""The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ..." - Michel de Montaigne


5/25

********************************************************************************************************************

For the woman in love, there are no fabulous lovers; there is only the man she is in love with. And she does not need to be a genius to figureout that the better his technique, the more he has been out there practicing. Unknown

Learning to live is learning to let go. Sagyal Rimpoche

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. Hyman Rickover

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing whats going to happennext. Gilda Radner

Worry is the misuse of your imagination. Unknown

Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

We all live in suspense from day to day, from hour to hour, in other words, we are the hero of our own story. Marry McCarthy

Youve got to get up every morning with determination if youre going to bed with satisfaction. George Horace Lomer

Living is determined not so much by what life brings to you..as by the attitude you bring to life. John Homer Mills

Life is ten percent what you make it, and ninety percent how you take it. Irving Berlin

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you land among the stars. Les Brown

Destiny is not a matter of chance,, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved. William JenningsBryan

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. Joan Crawford

Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. Unknown

I always thought marriage was about finding the perfect match. Now, I realize its about trying to match the different pieces togetherperfectly. Courtney Cox

Trouble is part of life, and if you dont share it, you dont give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough. AgathaChristie

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Karen Kaiser Clark

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, we do not see the ones which openfor us. Alexander Graham Bell

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Unknown

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." - Lillian Dickson

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." - Swedish proverb


6/25

********************************************************************************************************************

SOMEWHERE THERES SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF YOUR SMILE AND FINDS IN YOU PRESENCE THAT LIFE ISWORTHWHILE, SO WHEN YOU ARE LONELY, REMEMBER THIS IS TRUE, SOMEWHERE SOMEONE IS THINKING

OF YOU. UNKNOWN

Having too much to do is a positive problem of abundance, while having too little is a negative problem of shortage. David Niven

A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory. Unknown

A ton of regret never made an ounce of difference. Unknown

Its only premarital sex if you are going to get married.

Procrastination: The art of keeping up with Yesterday.

Two things that are essential to life WD-40 and duct tape. If it moves and it isnt supposed to use duct tape. If it doesnt move and itssupposed to use WD-40. Unknown

When something important is going on, silence is a lie. AM Rosenthal

To be persuasive we must be believable, to be believable we must be credible, credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow

There is no poison on this earth more potent, nor half so deadly as partial truth mixed with passion. Micheal J. Tucker

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies. Unknown

The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie. Ann Landers

A truth that is told with bad intent beats all lies you can invent. William Blake

Its not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true. Henry Kissinger

Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near to the truth is the more likely tolead you astray. Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on one side. Unknown

To be in love you need to be able to trust my past, present, and future. ME

Trust means that you place confidence in someone to be honest with you, faithful to you, keep promises, vows and confided, and not to

abandon you.

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." - Allan K. Chalmers

"Don't hurry, don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So be sure and stop to smell the flowers." - Walter Hagen

"We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young

"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash

The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." - Helen Rowland


7/25

********************************************************************************************************************Unconditional love is not a record of wrongs, when love is not patient or enduring, when love is unforgiving or always disappointing, orlooking for something to go wrong, it generates fear and looks for imperfections in the other person. Fear-based love is conditionally creatingan atmosphere of distrust, dishonesty, and instability. We are human and we make mistakes but we can use those mistakes to learn from.

Love: forgiveness and commitment are as necessary to trust as honesty is in a relationship.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. Sam Keen

Love doesnt make the world goround.Love is what make the ride worthwhile. Franklin P. Jones

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they dont, they never were. Unknown

Love me now, love me never,But if you love me, love me forever.

Unknown

Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man. Unknown

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. Unknown

Love is like heaven, but it can hurt like hell. Unknown

Love..What is love? Love is to love someone for who they are,, who they were, and who they will be. Chris Moore

Love the heart that hurts you, But never hurt the heart that loves you. Unknown

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not

success at all. Anna Quindlen (1953 - )

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. Unknown

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. -Edgar Cayce

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed?

And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven

and there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?

And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?

Ah, what then?

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge


8/25

*********************************************************************************************************Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This

special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy. -Walt Disney

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

People are definitely a companys greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is

only as good as the people it keeps. Mary Kay Ash

A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to

change. The sum total of those changes is transformation. Andrew Grove

"Being on par in terms of price and qulaity only gets you into the game.

Service wins the game." Tony Alessandra

One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. Lewis Carol

Our greatest asset is the customer! Treat each customer as if they are the only one! Laurice Leitao

Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin

To my customer.I may not have the answer, but Ill find it. I may not have the time, but Ill make it. Unknown

"Here is a simple but powerful rule -always give people more than what they expect to get." Nelson Boswell

"There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers--after the sale." Harvey MacKay

"Treat every customer as if they sign your paycheckbecause they do." Author Unknown

"If we dont take care of our customers, someone else will." Author Unknown

"It starts with respect. If you respect the customer as a human being, and truly honor their right to be treated fairly and honestly, everythingelse is much easier." Doug Smith

"Customers dont expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong." Donald Porter

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

"The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates." - Thomas Szasz

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keepyour mind young." - Henry Ford


9/25

***********************************************************************************************************

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~John Locke

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need. Voltaire

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. ALBERT EINSTEIN:

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov

If you don't give people information, they'll make up something to fill the void. - Carla O'Dell

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Morrie Schwartz

Be careful where you go, young man, Be careful what you do. Two little eyes are watching you now---- Two little feet will be followingyou. Unknown

The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi

If you dont like something, change it. It you cant change it, change your attitude. Dont complain. Maya Angelou

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and

desire. Aristotle

"Accept life, and you must accept regret." Henri Frederic Amiel

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. Art Buchwald

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Dr. Wayne

Dryer

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. Phyllis Diller

"If you love someone set them free if they come back it's meant to be".

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." - David Star Jordan

"The tragedy of life doesn?t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." - Benjamin Mays

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try." - Mary Kay Ash


10/25

"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die." - William Wiley

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Don Herold

"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." - Reverend Oliver G.Wilson

"A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions." - Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted." - John Lennon

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." - Christine Bovee

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese." - Billie Burke

Why not learn to enjoy the little things - there are so many of them." - Anon.

"'I can't do it' never yet accomplished anything; 'I will try' has performed wonders." - George P. Burnham

"What you do today can change the course of your life far into the future. Today is critical. Today really counts." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Anon.

"Most people are about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln

"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

"Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment." - Amelia Barr

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Sally Berger

"Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity." - Omar Idn Al-Halif

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." Seneca

"The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you aredriven by what you expect of yourself." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene." - Arthur Christopher Benson

"Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg." -

Anon.

"One should count each day a separate life." Seneca

"Lazy people work double." - Anon.

"The most common cause of insufficient results is insufficient action." - Brian Koslow

"You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself." -Warren B. Bennis

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking." - Buddhist Proverb


11/25

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." - SamEwing

"What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do." - Anon.

"To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille

"Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it." - Mae West

If you're going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill

"The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present." Anon

"Later never exists." - Anon.

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." - Artur Rubenstein

"Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it." - Col. Michael Friedsman

We only do well the things we like doing." Colette

"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." - David Starr Jordan

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's." - Henry Moore

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." - Katharine Hepburn

"No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living." - Marie Beynon Ray

"What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate." - Henry David Thoreau

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." - Chinese proverb

"You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do." - Henry Ford

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." - James A. Michener

The most powerful thing to believe in is yourself and your own abilities." - Brian Koslow

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." - Anatole France

"Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities." - William Bridges

"There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience." - Laurence J. Peter

"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gainsuccess." - B. C. Forbes

"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness." - Anon.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities." - John Wicker

"First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do." Epictetus

"There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change." - Rollo May

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable." - Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton


12/25

"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going tofight. Never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings

The beginning is half of every action." - Greek proverb

"If you rest, you rust." - Helen Hayes

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older." - Larry McMurtry

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve thesecond." - Logan Pearsall Smith

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back." - Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

"The best way to get something done is to begin." - Anon.

To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing." - Eva Young

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." - Mae West

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." - Jack London

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again." - Bonnie Prudden

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we mightjust as well put that passing time to the best possible use." - Earl Nightingale

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Robert Brault

"We each have all the time there is; our mental and moral status is determined by what we do with it." - Mary Blake

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of." - Charles Richards

"The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself." - Rita Mae Brown

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." - Anon.

"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." - David Guy Powers

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Linquist

"No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back." - Turkish proverb

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." -Robert Anthony

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." -Allan K. Chalmers

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." - Mark Twain

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." - John Powell


13/25

"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing." - Adolph Monod

"A day is a span of time no one is wealthy enough to waste." - Anon.

If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there?" - Basil S. Walsh

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want." - Ben Stein

"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." - Calvin Coolidge

"A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood." - David Sarnoff

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.- Douglas Everett

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes." - Frank Lloyd Wright

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

"You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand." - Irene CKassorla

"Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man." - Jimmy Lyons

"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

"My future is one I must make myself." - Louis L'Amour

"To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life." - Malcolm Forbes

"It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life." - Queen Christina, of Sweden

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May

To be free is to have achieved your life." - Tennessee Williams

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year." - Thomas Dreier

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." - Thomas Jefferson.

"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing." - William Feather

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind." - William James

"Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank." - Ben Irwin

"Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come." - Janet E. Stuart

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age." - Gloria Pitzer

"Everything comes too late for those who only wait." - Elbert Hubbard

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." - Rita Mae Brown

"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving ourmark." - Michelangelo Buonarroti


14/25

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe." - Anatole France

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." Goethe

"The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become." - Harold Taylor

"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece." - Ralph Charell

"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain." - Marcus Aurelius

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence and determination." - Calvin Coolidge

"Life will reward you precisely to the extent that you express yourself, in your own unique way, to the world." - Ralph S. Marston, Jr

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." - Martha Washington

"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." - E. Joseph Crossman

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realised it sooner." Colette

"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do." - Anon.

"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come." - Janet Erskine Stuart

"Reach high, for stars hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Pamela Star

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." - Lucimar Santos de Lima

"Never let yesterday use up today." - Richard H. Nelson

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell

Why always, 'not yet?' Do flowers in spring say, 'not yet?'" - Norman Douglas

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller

"What worries you, masters you." - Haddon W. Robinson

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." - Charles O. Finley

"Nothing can be done except little by little." - Charles Baudelaire

"There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance." - Mignon McLaughlin

What we love to do we find time to do." - John L. Spalding


15/25

"Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." - Theodore N. Vail

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not." - James Gordon,M.D.

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living." - Gail Sheehy

"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond." - Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

"There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning." - Christopher Morley

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." - Don Herold

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy." - Robert Anthony

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." - Richard L. Evans

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." - Benjamin Disraeli

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." - Isadora Duncan, My Life

"The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry." - John Jensen

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for." - Joseph Addison

"The difference between one man and another is not mere ability? it is energy." - Thomas Arnold

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde

A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life,

youll find youre never sorry you were kind.

I dont want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

A hitters impatience is the pitchers biggest advantage.

Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.

Dont let the fear of striking out keep you away from playing the game.

Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech youll ever regret.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.


16/25

Nothing hurts more than realizing he meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to him.

A break up is like a broken mirror. It is better to leave it broken than hurt yourself to fix it.

It takes a couple seconds to say Hello, but forever to say Goodbye.

Everyone tells me I should forget about you, you dont deserve me. Theyre right, you dont deserve me, but I deserve you.

I dont miss him, I miss who I thought he was.

Its hard to tell your mind to stop loving someone when your heart still does.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad that it was once yours.

You dont realize how much you care about someone until they dont care about you.

"I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gavemyself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between thebeautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose."Margaret Cho

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."James Lane Allen

It's better to be wanted for murder than not to be wanted at all. Marty Winch

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~William Lloyd Garrison

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~William Safire

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!~Author Unknown

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. ~Mark Twain, "What Is Man?", 1906

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. ~James D. Miles

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. ~Robert Brault,

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be inthe first group; there was less competition there. ~Indira Gandhi

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. ~Oliver Wendell HolmesIt takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Danger is one letter short of Anger

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment. ~Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. ~Author Unknown

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. ~Nol Coward, Blithe Spirit

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. ~William Arnot


17/25

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by,and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. ~J.C. Watts

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!~Author Unknown

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right. ~Mario Cuomo

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. ~Dwight Lyman Moody

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., speech, Boston, 8 January 1897

"If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then thatperson is in control of you. "Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unlessyou permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your

fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces." Og Mandino

"Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." Thomas Jefferson

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." ChineseProverb

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."Josh Billings

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very firstrock."Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ?

"Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward."Napolean Hill

It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful."Neal A.Maxwell

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in controlof your life. If you don't, life controls you."Anthony (Tony) Robbins

"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions..."W. Clement Stone

"When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling orneutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habits and don't know how to eliminate themeffectively." William Clement Stone

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control thepeople who must use the words.

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enough to be honest. ~ Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790


18/25

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.~ Sun Tzu

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. ~ Sun Tzu

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.~ Winston Churchill 1874-1965

"When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it." Keith Ablow(Murder Suicide: A Novel)

A lie told often enough becomes the truth. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing, even if one of them complains later on thatthey were used. Paulo Coelho

The calf didn't respond to any manipulation of the foot ? no response from calf, consistently. ~ Jeff Wyatt

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day.~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. C. S. LewisSome rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. William Shakespeare

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort. Confucius

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do. Plato

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. Napoleon Bonaparte

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. Lao Tzu

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears.

Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Robert Frost

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. George W. Bush

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world arethe people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they cant find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Unknown Author

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. Dr. Robert Anthony

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. Don Shula

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong. Warren Buffett

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. JimRohn

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. T. S. Eliot


19/25

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling orneutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate themeffectively. W. Clement Stone

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. William James

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin

Simply having children does not make mothers. ~John A. Shedd

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child. ~Gail Sheehy

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. ~Charles DeLint

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,And that's what parents were created for.

~Ogden Nash, "The Parent," Happy Days, 1933Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~Charles R. Swindoll, The Strong Family

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~MignonMcLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~Frank Pittman, Man Enough

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners. ~Author Unknown

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it. ~Frank A. Clark

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. ~Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do. John W Holt Jr

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface James BryantConant

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyssalso looks into you. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truthlies elsewhere

He who angers you conquers you- E l i z a be t h Ke nn y

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer- O s c a r Wi l d e


20/25


21/25


22/25


23/25


24/25


25/25

)250

Documents

My Quote Book