You can do no great things -- only
small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
What I must do is all that concerns
me, not what the people think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civility costs nothing and buys
everything.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Vision without Action is a daydream.
Action without Vision is a nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
Don't let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do.
John Wooden
There are no hopeless situations;
There are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce,
Change is not merely necessary to
life, it is life.
Alvin Toffler
In the province of the mind, what
one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly
You can not create experience. You
must undergo it.
Albert Camus
The only thing we have to fear is
fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Seven days without a smile makes
one weak.
Unknown
Someday is not a day of the week.
Anonymous
There is no happiness except in
the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Life can only be understood backward
but it must be lived forward.
Kirkgaard
He who has a why to live can bear
almost any how.
F. Nietzsche
Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Happiness is not a destination.
It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
The past is but the beginning of
a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight
of the dawn.
H.G. Wells
Real obstacles don't take you in
circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher
I do not want to die... until I
have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the
seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
Kathe Kollwitz
The greatest storm in the ocean
doesn't prevent the regular incoming and outgoing tides.
Raymond Charles Barker
I was like a boy playing on the
sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother
pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean
of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton
The human heart is like a ship on
a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners
of heaven.
Martin Luther
A thorn defends the rose, harming
only those who would steal the blossom.
Chinese proverb
Any disaster you can survive is
an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life."
Joseph Campbell
False friends are like our shadow,
keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine but leaving
us when we cross into the shade.
Unknown
Behold the turtle: He only makes
progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
I couldn't wait for success, so
I went on ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters
One that would have the fruit must
climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
When angry, count ten before you
speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude
on a busy life.
Unknown
To dare is to lose one's footing
momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
Your childen need your presence
more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
I wanted to change the world. But
I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing
is oneself.
Aldous Huxley
I could rush and be on time, but
I would rather be a few minutes late and enjoy the ride
Unknown
He that is down needs fear no fall.
John Bunyan
One doesn't discover new lands without
consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
Indecision is often worse than wrong
action.
Gerald R. Ford
To learn how to think with your
heart, think with your mind and then compromise the best answer
for your soul.
Jason Lawrence Shaw
All truth passes through 3 stages.
First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third,
it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
The Willow knows what the Storm
does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to
inflict it.
Unknown
That which does not kill me makes
me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We are drowning in information and
starved for knowledge.
Unknown
To handle yourself, use your head.
To hadle others, use your heart.
Unknown
The eye sees only what the mind
is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
When you start using senses you've
neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh
eyes.
Barbara Sher
Creativity is allowing yourself
to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
The only time you don't fail is
the last time you try anything and it works.
William Strong
We are punished by our sins, not
for them.
Elbert Hubbard
Never tell people "how"
to do things. Tell them "what" to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
General George S. Patton
When one door closes, another opens.
But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we
don't see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
My eyes are an ocean in which my
dreams are reflected.
Anna M. Uhlich
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack
of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
Do the right thing. It will gratify
some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
We think in generalities, but we
live in details.
Alfred North Whitehead
Many candles can be kindled from
one candle without diminishing it.
The Midrash
It's not whether you get knocked
down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Ideas without action are worthless.
Harvey Mackay
Sometimes your joy is the source
of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of
your joy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life is a pure flame, and we live
by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown
The important thing is never to
stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Sometimes I think we're alone in
the universe. Sometimes I think we're not. In both cases the
thought is equally shocking.
Arthur C. Clarke
When I was a child, my mother said
to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If
you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I
became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
Data is not information, Information
is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding
is not wisdom.
Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
If you can't feed a hundred people,
then feed just one.
Mother Teresa
After I'm dead, I'd rather have
people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder
An error doesn't become a mistake
until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista
Life is a comedy for those who think
and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole