- Be quick, but don’t hurry. ~ John Wooden
- The team that makes the most mistakes usually wins. ~ Piggy Lambert ,one-time Purdue Basketball coach
- Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
- Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. ~ Thomas Watson
- Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. ~ Unknown
- The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A friend is a present you give yourself. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
- It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. ~ Alfred Adler
- Nothing too much. ~ inscription at temple of Delphi
- Arguing with a fool proves there are two. ~ Doris M. Smith
- Nobody can hurt me without my permission.~ Mohandas Gandhi
- You don’t have to be interesting. You have to be interested. ~ John Gottman
- Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. ~ Oscar Wilde
- A true friend overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ~ Doug Larson
- The shortest pencil is longer than the longest memory. ~ Unknown
- To the man with a hammer, every problem tends to look pretty much like a nail. ~ Unknown
- I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~Barnett R. Brickner
- Knowing what is and knowing what can be are not the same thing. ~ Ellen Langer
- Certainty is a cruel mindset. ~ Ellen Langer
- What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see. ~ Ellen Langer
- That which we desire most earnestly we believe most easily. ~ Unknown
- What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination. ~ Unknown
- We tend to get what we expect. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- Everybody dies, but not everybody lives. ~ A Sachs
- To be angry is to let others’ mistakes punish yourself. ~ Master Cheng Yen
- Memory is the residue of thought. ~ Daniel Willingham
- It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. ~ Eddie Cantor
- Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here…Then I propose we postpone further discussion. . .to give ourselves time to develop disagreement. ~ Alfred Sloan
- To understand all is to forgive all. ~ French saying.
- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~ Franklin P. Jones
- Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. ~ Barnett R. Brickner
- Ideas that spread win. ~ Seth Godin
- I wish to have as my epitaph: ‘Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.’ ~ Andrew Carnegie
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives. ~ Albert Einstein
- The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you. ~ Roy Croft
- Every exit is an entry somewhere. ~ Tom Stoppard
- When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. ~ Lao-Tzu
- 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
- 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
- Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats. ~ Howard Aiken
- How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? ~ E. M. Forster
- The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. ~ Linus Pauling
- Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible. ~ Miguel Unamuno
- Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~ Robert Heinlein
- One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh. ~ Robert Heinlein
- Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. ~ Robert Heinlein
- When one teaches, two learn. ~ Robert Heinlein
- Belief gets in the way of learning. ~ Robert Heinlein
- What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. ~ Margaret Mead
- 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
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- 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
- There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done. ~ Peter Drucker
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ~ Peter Drucker
- We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don’t. ~ Frank A. Clark
- Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
- The one who loves least controls the relationship. ~ Unknown
- Life is not one thing after another. It’s the same damn thing over and over! ~ Unknown
- The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- This too shall pass. ~ Persian proverb
- 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
- 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
- Whoever best describes a problem is the one most likely to solve it. ~ Dan Roam
- What gets measured gets managed. ~ Peter Drucker
- By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.~ Robert Frost
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake. ~ Elbert Hubbard
- 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
- Knowledge is proud she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more. ~ William Cowper
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did. ~ 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
- I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. ~ Mark Twain
- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. ~ Richard P.Feynman
- The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed. ~ Michelangelo
- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. ~ Mark Twain
Ironic, paradoxical, quirky quotes to make you think
January 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment