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Success is that old ABC -ability, breaks
and courage.
Charles Luckman (U.S. architect, 1909-1999)
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
Success is knowing how to get along
with
people.
Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President,
1858-1919)
Success is never final.
Sir Winston Churchill (British statesman
and prime minister, 1874-1965)
Ninety-nine percent of success is built on
former failure.
Charles F.Kettering (U.S. electrical
engineer
and inventor, 1876-1958)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing
what
people say hou cannot do.
Walter Bagehot (British writer and
economist,
1826-77)
The reward of a thing well done is
to have
done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
The world belongs to the energetic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
There is only one success-to be able
to spend
your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley (U.S. editor and
writer,
1890-1957)
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
When the going gets tough, the tough
get
going.
Kennedy family motto
Whenever you see a successful business,
someone
once made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker (U.S. management consultant,
author, 1909-)
People are always blaming their circumstances
for what they are.
I don't believe in circumstances.
The people who get on in the world are the
people who get up and look for the circumstances
they want,
and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright,
critic, 1856-1950)
Young man, the secret of my success
is that
at an early age I discovered I was
not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (U.S. physician
and
author, 1809-94)
Contrary to the opinion of many people,
leaders
are not born.
Leaders are made, and they are made
by effort
and hard work.
Vince Lombardi (Professional football
coach,
1913-70)
Eagles don't flock-you have to find
them
one at a time.
H. Ross Perot (U.S. computer industry
executive
and philanthropist, 1930-)
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer (Physician, music
scholar
and philosopher, 1875-1965)
First-rate people hire first-rate people;
second-rate people hire third-rate
people.
Leo Rosten (U.S. writer, 1908-1997)
There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned
lies and statistics.
(Mark Twain)
Experience keeps a dear school, yet
fools
will learn in no other.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Getting results through people is a
skill
that cannot be learned in the classroom.
J. Paul Getty (U.S. oilman, 1892-1976)
If it's a good idea ... go ahead and
do it.
It is much easier to apologize than
it is
to get permission.
Grace Murray Hopper (Rear Admiral,
U.S. Navy,
1906-92)
Leadership cannot really be taught.
It can only be learned.
Harold Geneen (former CEO of IT&T,
1910-97)
Make every decision as if you owned
the whole
company.
Robert Townsend (U.S. business writer
and
former president of Avis Rent-a-Car,
Inc.,
1920-98)
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise
you with their ingenuity.
Gen. George Smith Patton (U.S. Army
officer,
1885-1945)
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man
who
has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope (English novelist,
1815-82)
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie (Polish scientist, 1867-1934)
Often the test of courage is not to
die but
to live.
Conte Vittorio Alfieri (Italian dramatist,
1749-1803)
Other men are lenses through which
we read
our own minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy
is in danger.
Lord Hailsham (British lawyer and politician,
1907-)
There are no eternal facts as there
are no
abusolute truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher,
1844-1900)
War is too important to be left to
the generals.
Georges Clemenceau (French journalist,
statesman,
and Premier, 1841-1929)
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth
doing
well.
Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield,
English stetesman and author, 1694-1773)
You do not lead by hitting people over
the
head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (34th U.S. President,
1890-1969)
Imagination is more important than
knowledge.
Albert Einstein (U.S.-Swiss-German
physicist
and Nobel Prize winner in physics,
1879-1955)
Man's mind, stretched to a new idea,
never
goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (U.S. physician
and
author, 1809-94)
Success is the ability to go from failure
to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill (British statesman
and prime minister, 1874-1965)
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging
from
their neck saying, "Make me feel
important."
Never forget this message when working
with
people.
Mary Kay Ash (U.S. cosmetics executive, 1915-)
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning
and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants
to do.
Bob Dylan (U.S. singer songwriter, 1941-)
To love what you do and feel that it
matters
- how could anything be more fun?
Katharine Graham (U.S. newspaper executive,
1917-)
The man who dares to waste one hour
of time
has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin (English naturalist
and evolutionist,
1809-82)
Try not to become a man of success
but rather
to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein (U.S.-Swiss-German
physicist
and Nobel Prize winner in Physics,
1879-1955)
Self-confidence is the first requisite
to
great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson (English lexicographer
and
author, 1709-84)
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry,
lost knowledge by study,
lost health by temperance or medicine,
but
lost time is gone forever.
Samuel Smiles (Scottish author and
biographer,
1812-1904)
Great writers leave us not just their
work,
but a way of looking at things,
Elizabeth Janeway (U.S. novelist and critic,
1913-)
Great minds have purposes, others have
wishes.
Washington Irving (U.S. writer, 1783-1859)
I'd rather be a failure in something
that
I love than a success in something
that I
don't.
George Burns (U.S. domedian, 1896-1996)
Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90
percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin (Russian-U.S. songwriter,
1888-1989)
You can complain becouse roses have
thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have
roses.
Tom Wilson (English scholar and politician,
1525-81)
Study as if you were going to live
forever;
live as if you wrere going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell (U.S. astronomer, 1818-89)
The old saying "knowledge is power"
sometimes makes people hoard knowledge.
They believe that knowledge hoarding
makes
them indispensable.
Power comes not from knowledge kept
but from
knowledge shared.
Bill Gates
The difference between perseverance
and obstinacy
is that one often comes from a strong
will,
and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher (U.S. Congressional clergyman,
1813-87)
Never let a day pass that you will
have cause
to say, ''I will do better tomorrow."
Brigham Ypung (U.S. religious leader, 1801-77)
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody
has seen and thinking what nobody has
thought.
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian-born
U.S.biochemist
and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine,
1893-1986)
In any moment of decision the best
thing
you can do is the right thing,
the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and
the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt (26th U.S. President,
1858-1919)
Humility leads to strength and not
to weakness.
It is the highest form of self-respect
to
admit mistakes and to make amends for
them.
John Jay McCloy (U.S. diplomat, 1895-1989)
The reading of all good books is like
a conversation
with the finest men of past centuries.
Rene Descartes (French philosopher,
1596-1650)
I never could have done what I have
done
without the habits of punctuality,
order
and diligence,
without the determination to concentrate
myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens (English novelist,
1812-70)
If you can't change your fate, change
your
attitude.
Amy Tan (Chinese-U.S. novelist, 1952-)
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 (U.S. football coach, 1913-70)
The secret of genius is to carry the
spirit
of the child into old age,
which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley (English novelist and
essayist,
1894-1963)
I rate enthusiasm even above professional
skill.
Sir Edward Appleton (English physicist,
1892-1956)
One of the most essential things you
need
to do for yourself is to choose a goal
that
is important to you.
Perfection does not exist - you can
always
do better and you can always grow.
Les Brown (U.S. band leader, 1912-2001)
Twenty years from now you will be more
disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by
the ones
you did. So throw off the bowlines.
Away
from the safe harbor. Catch the trade
winds
in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain (U.S. writer, 1835-1910)
There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells
the difference between mediocrity and
accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale (U.S. clergyman and
writer, 1898-1993)
Live out of your imagination, not your
history.
Stephen Covey (U.S. consultant, 1932-)
Great deeds are usually wrought at
great
risk.
Herodotus (Greek historian, c.485-425BC)
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes the furthesat is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
The ''sure thing" boat never gets
far
from shore.
Dale Carnegie (U.S. writer and public speaking
teacher, 1888-1955)
The future belongs to those who believe
in
the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt (U.S. humanitarian, First
Lady and writer, 1884-1962)
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come
from people who have the habit of making
excuses.
George Washington Carver (U.S. botanist and
educator, 1861-1943)
People who are unable to motivate themselves
must be content with mediocrity,
no matter how impressive their other
talents.
Andrew Carnegie (U.S. steel manufacturer,
humanitarian and philanthropist, 1835-1919)
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda,
or woulda.
If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda
done
it.
Pat Riley (U.S. basketball coach, 1945-)
A failure is a man who has blundered
but
is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard (U.S. author, 1856-1915)
We don't stop playing because we grow
old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright,
critic, 1856-1950)
I attribute my success to this: I never
gave
or took an excuse.
Florence Nightingale (English nurse,
1820-1910)
High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Walton (U.S. businessman and entrepreneur,
chairman of Wal-Mart, 1918-92)
Good resolutions are like babies crying
in
church. They should be carried out
immediately.
Charles M.Sheldon (U.S. clergyman and author,
1857-1946)
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of
it.
Helen Keller (U.S. author and campaignner
for the disabled,1880-1968)
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved
except by those who dared believe that
something
inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton (U.S. businessman, author and
politician, 1886-1967)
Always do more than is required of
you.
George S.Patton (U.S. army general, 1885-1945)
He who loses wealth loses much; he
who loses
a friend loses more; but he that loses
courage
loses all.
Miguel de Cervantes (Spanish writer,
1547-1616)
If you keep thinking about what you
want
to do or what you hope will happen,
you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Joe DiMaggio (U.S. baseball player, 1914-99)
Never confuse a single defeat with
a final
defeat.
F.Scott Fitzgerald (U.S. novelist and civil
rights activist, 1896-1940)
The activist is not the man who says
the
river is dirty. The activist is the
man who
cleans up the river.
Ross Perot (U.S. computer industry executive
and philanthropist, 1930-)
The greatest obstacle to discovery
is not
ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J.Boorstin (U.S. historian, 1914-)
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
William A.Ward (U.S. Baptist clergyman, 1797-1875)
Ability is what you're capable of doing.
Motivation determines what you do.
Attitude
determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz (U.S. football coach, 1937-)
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 Cs.
They are curiosity, confidence, courage,
and constancy, and the greatest of
all is
confidence,
when you believe in a thing, believe
in it
all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Walt Disney (U.S. film producer, 1901-66)
Anger is one letter away from danger.
Eleanor Roosevelt (U.S. humanitarian, First
Lady and writer, 1884-1962)
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness
consists in the ability to stick to
one thing
till it gets there.
Josh Billings (U.S. writer, 1818-85)
I have never met a man so ignorant
that I
couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei (Italian physicist,
astronomer,
1564-1642)
There are two sides to every issue: one side
is right and the other is wrong,
but the middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand (U.S. novelist and nonfiction writer,
1905-82)
Only those who have the patience to
do simple
things perfectly
will acquire the skill to do difficult
things
easily.
Johan Schiller (German poet and dramatist,
1759-1805)
It is easier to denature plutonium
than to
denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein (U.S.-Swiss-German
physicist
and winner of Nobel Prize in physics,
1879-1955)
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who can't
read
them.
Mark Twain (U.S. writer ,1835-1910)
Love does not consist in gazing at
each other
but in looking outward together in
the same
direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French airman
and
writer, 1900-44)
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing,
wind braces up, snow is exhilarating;
there is no such thing as bad weather,
only
different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin (English writer and art
critic,
1819-1900)
The difference between the right word
and
the almost right word
is the difference between lightning
and the
lightning bug.
Mark Twain (U.S. writer, 1835-1910)
Friendship is the hardest thing in
the world
to explain. It's not something you
learn
in school.
But if you haven't learned the meaning
of
friendship, you really haven't learned
anything.
Muhammad Ali (U.S. boxer, 1942-)
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree
or
your college degree.
It's what you do with your life that
counts.
Millard Fuller (U.S. poverty activist and
humanitarian, 1935-)
Money will buy a pretty good dog but
it won't
buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings (U.S. writer, 1818-85)
Dream as if you'll live forever, live
as
if you'll die today.
James Dean (U.S. film actor, 1931-55)
Press on. Nothing in the world can
take the
place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing in the world
is
more common than unsuccessful men with
talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius
is a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full
of
educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge (30th U.S. President, 1872-1933)
The first requisite for success is
the ability
to apply your physical and mental energies
to one problem incessantly without
growing
weary.
Thomas A.Edison (U.S. inventor, 1847-1931)
You shall judge of a man by his foes
as well
as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad (English novelist, 1857-1924)
Anybody can become angry - that is
easy;
but to be angry with the right person,
and to the right degree, and at the
right
time, and for the right purpose, and
in the
right way
- that is not within everybody's power
and
is not easy.
Aristotle (Greek philosopher, 384-322B.C.)
The foolish man seeks happiness in
the distance,
the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim (U.S. poet and writer, 1882-1932)
Don't flatter yourself that friendship
authorizes
you to say disagreeable things to your
intimates.
The nearer you come into relation with
a
person, the more necessary do tact
and courtesy
become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (U.S. physician and
author, 1809-94)
Keep busy at something. A busy person
never
has time to be unhappy.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist,
1850-94)
Reading is to the mind what exercise
is to
the body.
Joseph Addison (English essayist and
politician,
1672-1719)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
the
naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz (U.S. psychiatrist, 1920-)
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority
rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee (U.S. novelist, 1926-)
To feel valued, to know, even if only
once
in a while,
that you can do a job well is an absolutely
marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters (U.S. TV interviewer and
newscaster, 1931-)
If you want a place in the sun, you've
got
to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van Buren (U.S. advice columnist,
1918-)
Those who do not know how to weep with
their
whole heart don't know how to laugh
either.
Golda Meir (Israeli prime minister,
1898-1978)
I am not discouraged, because every
wrong
attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A.Edison (U.S. inventor, 1847-1931)
Wise men speak because they have something
to say.
Fools speak because they have to say
something.
Anonymous
Live as you will have wished to have
lived
when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert (German
poet,
1715-69)
It is better to be hated for what one
is
than to be loved for what one is not.
Andre Gide (French writer, 1869-1951)
The true measure of a man is how he
treats
someone who can do him absolutely no
good.
Ann Landers (U.S. syndicated advice columnist,
1918-)
To love and win is the best thing.
To love
and lose,the next best.
William M.Thackeray (U.S. novelist, 1811-63)
Experience is not what happens to a
man;
it is what a man does with what happens
to
him.
Aldous Huxley (English novelist and
essayist,
1894-1963)
It is easier to do a job right than
to explain
why you didn't.
Martin Van Buren (U.S. statesman and eighth
president, 1782-1862)
There is no psychiatrist in the world
like
a puppy licking your face.
Ben Williams (U.S. writer, 1889-1953)
I am learning all the time. The tombstone
will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt (U.S. jazz/pop singer, 1928-)
Ｔｈｅ ｌｏｓｓ of a friend is like
that
of a limb; time may heal the anguish
of the
wound,
but the loss cannot be repaired.
Robert Southey (British poet and writer,
1774-1843)
The great end of life is not knowledge
but
action.
Thomas Henry Huxley (British biologist,
1825-95)
A man is the sum of his actions, of
what
he has done, of what he can do, nothing
else.
Andre Malraux (French atatesman and
novelist,
1901-76)
Greatness is the dream of youth realized
in old age.
Alfred Victor Vigny (French writer,
1797-1863)
In order to make an apple pie from
scratch,
you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan (U.S. astronomer and acience writer,
1934-96)
The most pathetic person in the world
is
someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Adams Keller (U.S. lecturer and essayist,
1880-1968)
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter Devries (U.S. novelist, 1910-93)
We must believe in luck. For how else can
we explain the success of those we don't
like?
Jean Cocteau (French poet, playwright
and
essayist, 1889-1963)
I know God will not give me anything
I can't
handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me
so much.
Mother Teresa (Catholic humanitarian
and
missionary, 1910-97)
Don't judge each day by the harvest
you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson (Scottish novelist,
1850-94)
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The
greatest loss is what dies inside us
while
we live.
Norman Cousins (U.S. magazine editor and
author,1915-90)
You can either take action, or you
can hang
back and hope for a miracle.
Miracles are great, but they are so
unpredictable.
Peter F.Drucker (U.S. management consultant
and author, 1909-)
A man who has to be convinced before
he acts
is not a man of action.
You must act as you breathe.
Georges Clemenceau (French journalist,
statesman
and Premier, 1841-1929)
Happiness is that state of consciousness
which proceeds from the achievement
of one's
values.
Ayn Rand (U.S. novelist and nonfiction
writer,
1905-82)
The toughest thing about success is
that
you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin (Russian-U.S.songwriter,
1888-1989)
Many of life's failures are people
who did
not realize how close they were to
success
when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison (U.S. inventor, 1847-1931)
Where there is an open mind, there
will always
be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering (U.S. electrical
engineer
and inventor, 1876-1958)
To accomplish great things, we must
not only
act, but also dream, not only plan,
but also
believe.
Anatole France (French novelist, 1844-1924)
The most important thing in communication
is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter F. Drucker (U.S. management consultant
and author, 1909-)
If I had more time, I'd have written
a shorter
letter.
Mark Twain (U.S. writer, 1835-1910)
A parrot talks much but flies little.
Wilbur Wright (U.S. pioneer in aviation,
1867-1912)
The wisdom of the wise and experience
of
ages may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli (British scholar, 1766-1848)
Don't accept your dog's admiration
as conclusive
evidence that you are wonderful.
Ann Landers (U.S. syndicated advice
columnist,
1918-)
Any fact facing us is not as important
as
our attitude toward it,
for that determines our success or
failure.
Norman Vincent Peale (U.S. pastor and
writer,
1898-1993)
Tact is the ability to describe others
as
they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President,
1809-65)
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong
men believe
in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the
men
who died.
Rather, we should thank God that such
men
lived.
George S. Patton (U.S. army general,
1885-1945)
The truth of the matter is that you
always
know the right thing to do. The hard
part
is doing it.
H. Norman Schwarzkoph (U.S. general,
1934-)
If the creator had a purpose in equipping
us with a neck, he surely meant us
to stick
it out.
Arthur Koestler (Hungarian-British
author,
1905-83)
Kind words can be short and easy to
speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa (Catholic humanitarian
and
missionary, 1910-97)
He who has a thousand friends has not
a friend
to spare,
while he who has one enemy shall meet
him
everywhere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
If everyone is thinking alike then
somebody
isn't thinking.
George S. Patton (U.S. army general,
1885-1945)
Being a President is like riding a
tiger
... keep on riding or be swallowed.
Harry S Truman (33rd U.S. President,
1884-1972)
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow
and
an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid (U.S. broadcast journalist,
1912-92)
I stopped believing is Santa Claus
when my
mother took me to see him in a department
store,
and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple (U.S. actress and diplomat,
1928-)
All things are possible until they
are proved
impossible -
and even the impossible may only be
so, as
of now.
Pearl S. Buck (U.S. novelist, 1892-1973)
Difficulty is, for the most part, the
daughter
of idleness.
Samuel Johnson (British critic, poet,
journalist,
essayist, and lexicographer, 1709-84)
Nothing is particularly hard if you
divide
it into small jobs.
Ray Kroc (U.S. restaurateur, 1902-84)
Our problems are man-made; therefore,
they
can be solved by man.
Man's reason and spirit have often
solved
the seemingly unsolvable. I believe
they
can do it again.
John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President,
1917-63)
The ability to deal with people is
as purchasable
a commodity as sugar or coffee.
And I will pay more for that ability
than
for any other under the sun.
John D. Rockefeller (U.S. industrialist
and
philanthropist, 1839-1937)
The best index to a person's character
is
(a) how he treats people who can't
do him
any good,
and (b) how he treats people who can't
fight
back.
Abigail Van Buren (U.S. advice columnist,
1918-)
The test of a man or woman's breeding
is
how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright
and
critic, 1856-1950)
And what is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not been
discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
Science is what you know; philosophy
is what
you don't know.
Bertrand Russell (British philosopher,
1872-1970)
You must learn from the mistakes of
others.
You can't possibly live long enough
to make
them all yourself.
Sam Levenson (U.S. teacher and comedian,
1911-80)
Every great mistake has a halfway moment,
a spilit second when it can be recalled
and
perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck (U.S. novelist, 1892-1973)
Experience is the name everyone gives
to
their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (Irish poet, playwright
and novelist,
1854-1900)
The worst mistakes in business are
made in
good times, not in bad times.
Thomas J. Watson Sr. (U.S. business
executive,
1874-1956)
It is hard to convince a high school
student
that he will encounter a lot of problems
more difficult than those of algebra
and
geometry.
Ed Howe (U.S. journalist, 1853-1937)
A problem well stated is a problem
half solved.
Charles F. Kettering (U.S. electrical
engineer
and inventor, 1876-1958)
A man would do nothing if he waited
until
he could do it so well that no one
could
find fault.
John H. Newman (British churchman and
cardinal,
1801-90)
The greatest mistake you can make in
life
is to be continually fearing you will
make
one.
Elbert Hubbard (U.S. author, 1856-1915)
A life spent in making mistakes is
not only
more honorable
but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright
and
critic, 1856-1950)
Thr greatest problem in communication
is
the illusion that it has been accomplished.
George Bernard Shaw (British playwright
and
critic, 1856-1950)
A lot of disappointed people have been
left
standing on the street corner
waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
Donald Kennedy (U.S. educator, 1931-)
Wise men learn more from fools than
fools
from wise men.
Marcus Porcius Cato (Roman statesman,
234-149B.C.)
People learn from their failures. Seldom
do they learn anything from success.
Harold Geneen (business executive,
1910-97)
I don't know the key to success, but
the
key to failure is trying to please
everybode.
Bill Cosby (U.S. actor and comedian,1937-)
Show me a good and gracious loser and
I'll
show you a failure.
Knute Rockne (U.S. football coach,
1888-1931)
Everyone is ignorant, only on different
subjects.
Will Rogers (U.S. actor and humorist,
1879-1935)
I have a dream that my four little
children
will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the
color
of their skin, but by the content of
their
character.
Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S. civil
rights
advocate, 1929-68)
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney (U.S. film producer, 1901-66)
Vision is the art of seeing things
invisible.
Jonathan Swift (Anglo-Irish satirist
and
churchman, 1667-1745)
Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
James Russell Lowell (Harvard University
professor and U.S. ambassador, 1819-91)
Only a mediocre person is always at
his best.
Laurence J. Peter (Canadian writer
and teacher,
1919-90)
The secret of success is constancy
to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli (British Prime Minister
and novelist, 1804-81)
I am not interested in the past.
I am interested in the future, for
that is
where I expect to spend the rest of
my life.
Charles F. Kettering (U.S. electrical
engineer
and inventor, 1876-1958)
I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much more concerned to know what
his
grandson will be.
Abraham Lincoln (16th U.S. President,
1809-65)
If you do not think about the future,
you
cannot have one.
John Galsworthy (English novelist and
dramatist,
1867-1933)
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson (U.S. Secretary of State,
1893-1971)
The only thing we know about the future
is
that it is going to be different.
Peter F. Drucker (U.S. management consultant
and author, 1909-)
No date on the calendar is as important
as
tomorrow.
Roy W. Howard (U.S. newspaperman, 1883-1964)
To love life is to love time. Time
is the
stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (U.S. atatesman,
diplomat,
inventor, scientist and publisher,
1706-90)
If you want work well done, select
a busy
man: the other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard (U.S. author, 1856-1915)
It is not enough to be busy; so are
the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau (U.S. naturalist
and
writer, 1817-62)
Those who have most to do, and are
willing
to work, will find the most time.
Samuel Smiles (Scottish writer, 1812-1904)
Time is the coin of your life.
It is the only coin you have, and only
you
can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people
spend
it for you.
Carl Sandburg (U.S. poet and biographer,
1878-1967)
We work not only to produce but to
give value
to time.
Eugene Delacroix (French Romantic painter,
1798-1863)
Music is an art, not a science, and
no one
ever becomes the greatest at an art
-
they could be greater!
Arthur Rubinstein (U.S. concert pianist,
1887-1982)
Good is not good where better is expected.
Thomas Fuller (English preacher and
historian,
1608-61)
One of the greatest pains to human
nature
is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot (British writer and
economist,
1826-77)
The main dangers in this life are the
people
who want to change everything - or
nothing.
Nancy Astor (English politician, 1879-1964)
Think like a man of action, act like
a man
of thought.
Henri Bergson (French philosopher,
1859-1941)
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek,
and
ye shall find; knock, and it shall
be opened
unto you.
The Bible (New Testament, Matthew 7:7)
Be daring, be first, be different.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher,
poet
and essayist, 1803-82)
Control your own destiny or someone
else
will.
Jack Welch (U.S. business executive,
1935-)
The harder you work, the luckier you
get.
Gary Player (South African professional
golfer,
1935-)
Never, never, never, never give up.
Sir Winston Churchill (British statesman and Prime Minister, 1874-1965)
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach (U.S. writer, 1936-)
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James (U.S. philosopher and psychologist, 1842-1910)
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.
Anatole France (French novelist, 1844-1924)
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
Thomas Fuller (English preacher and historian, 1608-61)
There are two types of knowlwdge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
Samuel Johnson (English lexicographer and author, 1709-84)
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S. philosopher, poet and essayist, 1803-82)
Example is leadership.
Albert Schweitzer (French-German physician, music scholar, philosopher and winner of Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)
Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.
J. Paul Getty (U.S. oilman, 1892-1976)
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope (English novelist, 1815-82)
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
Lord Hailsham (British lawyer and politician, 1907-)
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and author, 1694-1773)
The elusive half-step between middle management and true leadership is grace under pressure.
John F. Kennedy (35th U.S. President, 1917-63)
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain (U.S. writer,1835-1910)
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin (U.S. statesman, diplomat, inventor, scientist and publisher, 1706-90)
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon (English philosopher and statesman, 1561-1626)
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