| Quotes compiled from a classroom newsletter called "Keep Up" (Mrs. Hill’s 6th Grade Class, Roosevelt Middle School, ClassroomProducts.com) Original website no longer maintained--downloaded in May 2004. They provide some great food for thought, and could be used for class discussions, journal prompts, blog posts or even photo media projects. There are more than enough for an entire school year. :-) “ The greatest pleasure in life is achieving what people say you can not achieve.” - Walter Bagehot “ We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” - Max De Pree “ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius “ Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “ The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” - Benjamin Disraeli “ Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.” - Doug Larson “ Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Elliott “ Life’s most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?” - Martin Luther King Jr. “ To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “ It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson “ Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.” - Unknown “We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” - Stacia Tauscher The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. - Confucius Success is the reward for toil. - Sophocles The great are they who attempt the difficult things which lesser men avoid. - Indian Proverb To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in battle. - Buddha Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what’s easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. - Lao-Tzu All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound. - Samuel Pepys He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. - Sir Walter Scott I can give you a six-word formula for success: “Think things through – then follow through.” - Edward Rickenbacker Be a tail to lions rather than a head to jackals. - The Talmud To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. - Shakespeare Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it. - Thoreau If you intend to work, there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling from place to place can do no good. - Abe Lincoln Success is a result, not a goal. - Flaubert “ The important thing about having goals is having one.” - Geoffrey F. Abert “ Always be a little kinder than necessary.” - James M. Barry “ Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.” - Michael Caine “ If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.” - Clarence Darrow “ Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won’t work.” - Thomas A. Edison “ The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.” - Nan Fairbrother “ Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. “ - David Lloyd George “ When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?”” - Sydney J. Harris “ You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” - Lee Iacocca “ Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.” - Andrew Jackson “ Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” - Bil Keane “If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?” - Stephen Levine “ Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. “ - Hamilton Mabie “ Of those who say nothing, few are silent.” - Thomas Neill “ Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. “ - John Akers “ Anything I’ve ever done that ultimately was worthwhile. . . initially scared me to death. “ - Betty Bender “ It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. “ - Eddie Cantor “ Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. “ - Peter Drucker “ Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. “ - Thomas A. Edison “ Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. “ - William Feather “ Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. “ - Michael J. Gelb “ There is something much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. “ - Robert Half “ One man with courage makes a majority. “ - Andrew Jackson “ I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” - Helen Keller “ We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. “ - La Rochefourauld “ Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. “ - Norman MacEwan “ I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to create more leaders, not more followers. “ - Ralph Nader “ Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. “ - Gen. George S. Patton “ If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. “ - M. H. Alderson “ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. “ - Henri Bergson “ No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. “ - Andrew Carnegie “ There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. “ - Benjamin Disraeli “ He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. “ - Tryon Edwards “ Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. “ - Malcom S. Forbes “ There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. “ - Indira Gandhi “ In times like these, it is always helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. “ - Paul Harvey “ I am a great believer in luck, and find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. “ - Thomas Jefferson “ The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. “ - Donald Kendall “ Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. “ - Abraham Lincoln “ It isn’t the people you fire who make your life miserable, it’s the people you don’t. “ - Harvey Mackay “ On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. “ - Friedrich Nietzsche “ Character is much easier kept than recovered. “ - Thomas Paine “ Anybody 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; this is not easy. “ - Aristotle “ When one door closes, another one opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. “ - Alexander Graham Bell “ A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be. ” - Rosalynn Carter “ It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. “ - W. Edwards Deming “ History teaches us that men behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. “ - Abba Eban “ You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. “ - Henry Ford “ Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. “ - Michael J. Gelb “ We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. “ - Heraclitus “ When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there. “ - Japanese Proverb “ Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. “ - John F. Kennedy “ I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. “ - Abraham Lincoln “ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. “ - Naguib Mahfouz “ You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. “ - Dick Armey “ The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to always be right by having no ideas at all. “ - Edward de Bono “ Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. “ - Charles A. Cerami “ Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. “ - Charles A. Dana “ The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. “ - Albert Einstein “ Start every day with a smile and get it over with. “ - W.C. Fields “ One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. “ - Andre Gide “ If you don’t ask “why this?” often enough, somebody will ask “why you? “ - Tom Hirshfield “ You’re only as good as the people you hire.” - Ray Kroc “ He has right to criticize who has the heart to help. “ - Abraham Lincoln “ Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. “ - John C. Maxwell “ Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. “ - Frank Outlaw " If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. " - Marykay Ash " A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. " - Charles Brower " The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse. " - Carlos Castaneda " Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. " - Charles DeGaulle " Put your hand on a stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. " - Albert Einstein " What did you ask at school today? " - Richard Fenyman " Over seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. " - Michael J. Gelb " Never fear criticism when you are right. Never ignore it when you are wrong. " - Connie Jackson " Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential. " - Howard Hendricks " Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. " - Helen Keller " The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. " - Vince Lombardi " The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. " - Fred A. Manske, Jr. " We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. " - Aristotle " It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. " - F.M. Young " The thing you really believe in always happens. . . and the belief in a thing makes it happen. " - Frank Lloyd Wright " It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission. " - U.S. Marine Proverb " Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant. " - Sun Tzu " No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. " - Turkish Proverb " Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. " - Albert Szent-Gyorgi " To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. " - Bertrand Russell " Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. " - Thomas Peters " When we walk to the edge of all the light and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. " - Patrick Overton " Nobody believes the official spokesman. . . but everybody trusts an unidentified source. " - Ron Nesen " Character is power. " - Booker T. Washington " We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. " - Marcus Aurelius " Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now. " - P.T. Barnum " Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. " - Kyle Chandler " As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. " - Disraeli " Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. " - Dwight D. Eisenhower " Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. " - Arthur Godfrey " Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. " - John Hardwick " Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. " - Thomas Jefferson " You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. " - Charles Kettering " Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. " - Abraham Lincoln " Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. " - Og Mandino " The harder you work, the luckier you get. " - Gary Player " It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. " - Boris Yeltsin " Make voyages! Attempt them. . .there's nothing else. " - Tennessee Williams " Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. " - Mark Twain " Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. " - Margaret Thatcher " When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. " - Kathleen A. Sutton " The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. " - Theodore Roosevelt " Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. " - George S. Patton " If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. " - Alfred Nobel " The greatest motivational act one can do for another is to listen. " - Roy E. Moody " The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. " - Vince Lombardi " Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. " - Martin Luther King, Jr. " Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. " - Erica Jong " He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. " - Elbert Hubbard " First ask yourself: what is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst." - Dale Carnegie " The price of greatness is responsibility. " - Sir Winston Churchill " When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. " - Albert Einstein " Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. " - Henry Ford " Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. " - Benjamin Franklin " When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. " - Thomas Jefferson " For those to whom much is given, much is required. " - John F. Kennedy " Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. " - Martin Luther King, Jr. " Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. " - Erma Bombeck " If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. " - Milton Berle " Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. " - Robert Orben " The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. " - Norman Vincent Peale " People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. " - George Allen " Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? " - Thomas J. Watson " When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure. " - Robert Townsend " People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under. " - Charles Swindoll " I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. " - Charles Schwab " To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. " - Theodore Roosevelt " Eagles don't flock. You have to find them one at a time. " - H. Ross Perot " Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. " - P. J. O'Rourke " And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. " - Abraham Lincoln " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. " - Elbert Hubbard " The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. " - Lloyd Jones " Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. " - Chinese Proverb " If there is no wind, row. " - Latin Proverb " He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. " - Tom J. Connelly " A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. " - Elbert Hubbard " The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. " - James Oppenheim " When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. " - Franklin D. Roosevelt " What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. " - Dwight D. Eisenhower " Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. " - John Wooden " The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. " - Steven Covey " If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep the streets even as Michelangelo painted, or as Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. " - Martin Luther King, Jr. " If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. " - Vince Lombardi " You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. " - Dale Carnegie " We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. " - Phyllis Diller " The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. " - Ruskin " I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors. " - Jim Kaat " Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes. " Wilde " Only the mediocre are always at their best. " - Giraudoux " Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. " - Cossman " Whether you think you can, or can't, you are usually right. " - Henry Ford " The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. " - Kenneth Blanchard " Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. " - Yoda " Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. " - Phillips Brooks " Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, "making it", or success. " - Dr. Joyce Brothers " I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. " - Woody Allen " When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of. " - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. " While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. " - Stephen Covey " A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. " - Chinese Proverb " The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. " - Albert Einstein " Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. " - J. Donald Walters " Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind. " - Franklin D. Roosevelt " Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. " - Jim Rohn " Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many. " - Unknown " Perfection is our goal. Excellence will be tolerated. " - IABC TQM Motto " It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. " - Hubert Humphrey " Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. " - Henry Van Dyke " Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. " - General George S. Patton " So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. " - Will Rogers "Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. " - Tim Henson " It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit. " - John Wooden " The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. " - Martha Washington " The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have "arrived" believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid. " - Dale Turner " Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. " - Margaret Thatcher " Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. " - Muriel Strode " Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. " - George Bernard Shaw " The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. " - Nick Seitz " The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. " - David Russell " Never let yesterday use up too much of today. " - Will Rogers " I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. " - Pablo Picasso " While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. " - Henry C. Link " The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. " - Robert Frost " The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. " - Elbert Hubbard " Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. " - Chinese Proverb " In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts mind there are few. " - Shunryu Suzuki " Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. " - Cicero " What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. " - Unknown " If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. " - Chinese Proverb " Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. " - Dale Carnegie " Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest? " - Sidney Madwed " It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. " - Adlai Stevenson " He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. " - Benjamin Franklin " To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. " - Kahlil Gibran " Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. " - William Shakespeare " Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes. " - Chinese Proverb " Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. " - Henry Wheeler Shaw " One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. " - Malayan Proverb " Nothing shows a mans character more than what he laughs at. " - Von Goethe " The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. " - H.T. Leslie " Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. " - Calvin Coolidge " It is only when the rich are sick that they fully see the impotence of wealth. " - C.C. Colton " Behind every successful man, there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years. " - Unknown " There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. " - Henry Wheeler Shaw " When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never. " - Michael De Montaigne " We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. " - J.B.S. Haldane " There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. " - Oscar Wilde " If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the waters edge. " - Napolean Hill " I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know. " - Nero Wolfe " Act as if it were impossible to fail. " - Dorothea Broude " While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. " - Henry C. Link " Being happy can be hard work sometimes. It is like maintaining a nice home...you've got to hang on to your treasures and throw out the garbage. Being happy requires looking for good things. One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees a dirty window. You choose what you see and you choose what you think. " - Andrew Mathews " Nothing is so embarrassing as watching somebody do something that you said couldn't be done. " - Sam Ewing " Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand. " - Native American Saying " The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. " - Epicurus " Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. " - Carlyle " Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. " - Foster C. McClellan " Education is not received. It is achieved. " - Unknown " Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. " - Mark Twain " Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. " - Henry David Thoreau "One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat. " - Woodrow Wilson "The saints are the sinners who keep trying. " - Robert Louis Stevenson " Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. " - Albert von Szent-Gyorgy " Wear the old coat and buy the new book. " - Austin Phelps " The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready. " - Henry David Thoreau " Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. " - Mark Twain " Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. " - Goethe " Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. " - Antione de SaintExupery " If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. " - Isaac Newton " Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. " - Henri-Frederic Holmes " Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well...he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson " Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so. " - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. " 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 Jennings Bryan " Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. " - Mark Twain " If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather than dull and unresponsive, then they will thrive and grow to their capabilities. " - Bob Conklin " Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. " - Helen Keller " Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny. " - John Oliver Hobbes " We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. " - Dennis Waitley " Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. " - Dale Carnegie " I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. " - Albert Einstein " It is not the employer who pays wages -- he only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages. " - Henry Ford " He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. " - Benjamin Franklin " The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. " - Abraham Lincoln " The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. " - Vince Lombardi " Every problem has in it seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. " - Norman Vincent Peale " The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. " - Sebastion Chamfort " Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive. " - Warren Miller " Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. " - Ghandi " The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. " - Orison Marden " The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. " - John Powell " Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a touchdown. " - H. Ross Perot " He conquers who endures. " - Persius " Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. " - Yiddish proverb " To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail. " - Abraham Maslow " I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a professional praiser. " - Osbert Sitwell " Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. " - Henry Van Dyke " Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. " - Malcolm Forbes " Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." - William Feather " He is able who thinks he is able. " - Buddha " He who angers you conquers you. " - Elizabeth Kenny " But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. " - Arthur C. Clarke " A deadline is a negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. " - Rita Mae Brown " Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop your bucket where you are. " - Sam Walter Foss " Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. " - Theodore Roosevelt " Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. " - Publilius Syrus " The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. " - Walt West " Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop pedaling. " - Claude Pepper " May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. " - Joey Adams " You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. " - Margaret Thatcher " Champions keep playing until they get it right. " - Billie Jean King " It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. " - W. Somerset Maugham " Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. " - Ruth Gordon " When one door is shut, another opens. " - Miguel De Cervantes " Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. " - William Shakespeare " In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. " - Albert Einstein " Miracles happen to those who believe in them. " - Bernard Berenson " If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. " - Mary Kay Ash " Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. " - Kin Hubbard " To Love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. " - David Viscott " I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate. " - George Burns " There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. " - Beverly Sills " Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. " - Mother Teresa " I like a man who grins when he fights. " - Winston Churchill " The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right. " - Jill Ruckelshaus " To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. " - George Orwell " Winners never quit and quitters never win. " - Vince Lombardi " Modern man thinks he loses something: time: when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. " - Erich Fromm " A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. " - Benjamin Franklin " It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. " - Millard Fuller " You miss 100% of the shots that you never take. " - Wayne Gretzky |