quotable quotes

"Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the

hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done; it's

downhill from then on."

-- Norman Vincent Peale

"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do

him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."

-- Abigail Van Buren

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

-- Burton Hills

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but

what is woven into the lives of others."

-- Pericles

"The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an

overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better."

-- Eric Johnston

"Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back."

-- Babe Ruth

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can

waste it or use it for good.What you do today is important because you are

exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever;

in its place is something that you have left behind...

let it be something good."

-- Author Unknown

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open."

-- Thomas Dewar

"Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till

it gets there."

-- Josh Billings

"Follow your enthusiasm. It's something I've always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing."

-- Jim Henson

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of

the future to run over him."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good,

and grabs the new just as soon as it is better."

~ Robert P. Vanderpoel

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss

the future."

~ John F. Kennedy

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to

fail in order to practice being brave."

-- Mary Tyler Moore

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds

float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."

-- J. Lubbock

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

-- Helen Keller

"To acquire knowledge, one most study but to acquire wisdom one most observe."

-- Marilyn Vos Savant

"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience."

~ Elbert Hubbard

"I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try

to please everybody."

~ Herbert B. Swope

"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."

~ William S. Gilbert

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans

to take the place of those which fail."

~ Napoleon Hill

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."

-- Henry Ford

"Improvement begins with I."

-- Arnold H. Glasgow

"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate."

-- George Burns

"Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half."

-- Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant

"When I hear somebody say, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?"

-- Sydney J. Harris

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is

hard to realize this."

-- Henry Ford

"Try not to become a person of success, but rather to become a person of value."

-- Albert Einstein

"Happiness is not based on position, power, or prestige but on the relationship with other

people that you love and respect."

-- Author Unknown

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents

danger and the other represents opportunity."

-- John F. Kennedy

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

-- Leonardo DaVinci

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays

us."

-- Charles Caleb Colton

"Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it gives you such

an advantage over the man who is trying to remember his lies!"

-- Sam Brookes

"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick."

-- Laurence Shames

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

-- Dolly Parton

"We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy

where we are."

-- From Calvin & Hobbes

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you

seem, and smarter than you think."

-- From A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."

-- Josh Billings

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the

highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points

out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."

-- John Keats

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."

-- Chinese Proverb

“Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment.

All you can do is give yourself the ability to respond to uncertainty. This ability is

the essence of strategy”

--Lord John Browne (BP)

“It is not the strongest of the species who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones

most responsive to change.”

-- Charles Darwin