Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. | Henry Ford |
Dreams don’t work unless you do. | John C. Maxwell |
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. | William James |
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. | Oscar Wilde |
To understand all is to forgive all. | French saying |
We tend to get what we expect. | Norman Vincent Peale |
A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being ‘frank’. | Robert Heinlein |
Never try to have the last word. You might get it. | Robert Heinlein |
Never miss a good chance to shut up. | Will Rogers |
Arguing with a fool proves there are two. | Doris M. Smith |
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. | Abraham Lincoln |
The only way to have a friend is to be one. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. | Unknown |
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say. | Unknown |
Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find a good one, you must one hundred try. | Claude Mermet |
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else. | Len Wein |
A true friend overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! | Doug Larson |
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. | Roy Croft |
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. | John Leonard |
My best friend is that one who brings out the best in me. | Henry Ford |
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. | Rita Mae Brown |
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. | Dr. Seuss |
I don’t let go of concepts –I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. | Byron Katie |
I don’t miss him; I miss who I thought he was. | Unknown |
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. | William James |
The reward of a thing done well is to have done it. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is astonishing how long it takes to finish something you are not working on. | Unknown |
Many people have a good aim in life, but for some reason they never pull the trigger. | Unknown |
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. | Henry Ford |
Action will destroy your procrastination. | Og Mandino |
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don’t have to. | Walter Linn |
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. | Kim Hubbard |
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
I’ll go anywhere as long as it’s forward. | David Livingstone |
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. | John Kenneth Galbraith |
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. | Woodrow Wilson |
To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often. | Winston Churchill |
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. | Confucius |
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. | Charles F. Kettering |
The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them. | Confucius |
If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it’s OK. But you’ve got to shoot for something. A lot of people don’t even shoot. | Confucius |
It is better to play than do nothing. | Confucius |
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. | Confucius |
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. | Confucius |
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. | Confucius |
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. | Confucius |
Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. | Howard Aiken |
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. | George Washington |
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. | Wayne Dyer |
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. | Unknown |
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. | Michael Leunig |
Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you. | Unknown |
Want to know something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It’s really worth fighting for — risking everything for. And the trouble is — if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. | Erica Jong |
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not. | Unknown |
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. | Plato |
To handle yourself, you your head; To handle others, use your heart. | Unknown |
No-one can make you feel inferior without your permission. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable. | Erich Fromm |
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. | Abraham Lincoln |
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. | Soren Kierkegaard |
The one who loves least controls the relationship. | Unknown |
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. | Confucius |
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. | Mark Twain |
Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. | Unknown |
Life is not one thing after another. It’s the same damn thing over and over! | Unknown |
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. | Mahatma Gandhi |
Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live. | Unknown |
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. | Mahatma Gandhi |
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. | Mark Twain |
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late | Benjamin Franklin |
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about. | Wayne Dyer |
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. | Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be. | Unknown |
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that’s my religion. | Abraham Lincoln |
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. | George Bernard Shaw |
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me. | Jim Valvano (basketball coach) |
There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he’s absolutely free to choose. | William M. Bulger |
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely. | Erma Bombeck |
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. | Tom Robbins |
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. | Adlai E. Stevenson |
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. | Elbert Hubbard |
Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. | Bertrand Russell |
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. | Charles Darwin |
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. | Chinese proverb |
You will never find time for anything. You must make it. | Charles Buxton |
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. | Benjamin Disraeli |
He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. | Edmund Burke |
Don’t make someone a priority who only makes you an option. | Unknown |
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. | Winston Churchill |
We can’t always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. | Mark Twain |
Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. | William Cowper |
It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. | Helen Walton |
Fools learn from experience. Wise men learn from the experience of others. | Otto von Bismarck |
People are made to be loved and things are made to be used. There is much chaos in this world because things are being loved and people are being used. | Unknown |
Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. | Katherine Whitehorn |
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | William James |
The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. | Michelangelo |
All mankind is divided into three groups: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move. | Benjamin Franklin |
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | Mark Twain |
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. | Richard P. Feynman |
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. | Mark Twain |
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. | George Bernard Shaw |
What gets measured gets managed. | Peter Drucker |
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace. | Robert J. Sawyer |
Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. | Ralph Charell |
I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow. | Woodrow Wilson |
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. | Robert Frost |
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. | George Bernard Shaw |
This too shall pass. | Persian proverb |
Whoever best describes a problem is the one most likely to solve it. | Dan Roam |
A successful business is either loved or needed. | Ted Leonsis |
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. | Winston Churchill |
Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good. | Alan Weiss |
Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. | Thomas J. Watson |
We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are. | Anais Nin |
How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? | E. M. Forster |
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. | John Ruskin |
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. | Cyril Parkinson |
It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. | Mark Twain |
We all have times when we think more effectively, and times when we should not be thinking at all. | Daniel Cohen |
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. | The Serenity Prayer |
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. | Abraham Lincoln |
We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. | Frank A. Clark |
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done. | Peter Drucker |
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year. | John Foster Dulles |
That which can be destroyed by the truth should be. | P. C. Hodgell |
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. | Peter Drucker |
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. | Byron J. Langenfeld |
A life lived in fear is a life half-lived. | Spanish proverb |
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. | Lucille S. Harper |
Human beings aren’t rational animals; we’re rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. | Eliot Aronson ? |
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. | Naguib Mahfouz |
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. | Judith Martin |
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. | Linus Pauling |
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. | Voltaire |
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. | Miguel Unamuno |
Take care that no one hates you justly. | Publiius Syrus |
Belief gets in the way of learning. | Robert Heinlein |
When one teaches, two learn. | Robert Heinlein |
One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. | Robert Heinlein |
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