True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand
the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
-George
Washington (1732-1799)
What would you attempt to achieve if you believed it was impossible to fail?
Action will change your attitude.
Motion will change your emotions.
Movement will change your moods.
A closed mind is like a closed book:
just a block of wood. -Chinese
Proverb
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
-Voltaire
FEAR
It purges the extraneous so you can focus on the truth.
-Wright D. Sublette June 8, 1998
LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST
You are born at point A,
Your going to die at point B,
kick maximum ass in the mean time, Live!
- Ted Nugent
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something
else is more important than fear.
-Ambrose Redmoon
ACTION
Action without study is fatal.
Study without action is futile.
- Mary Beard
ACTION
It is easy to sit up and take notice.
What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
- Al Batt
ADAPTING
Adapt or perish, now as ever,
is nature's inexorable imperative.
AMBITION
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- C. Archie Danielson
ANGER
Consider how much more you often suffer
from your anger and grief,
than from those very things
for which you are angry and grieved.
- Marcus Antonius
ATTITUDE
Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.
- Irving Berlin
BATTLES
Pick battles big enough to matter,
small enough to win.
- Jonathan Kozel
BELIEF
The thing always happens that you really belive in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
BUSINESS
Any business arrangement that is
not profitable to the other fellow
will in the end prove unprofitable to you.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction
is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
- B.C. Forbes
CERTAINTY
If a man begins with certainties,
he shall end in doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts,
he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon
COMPLACENCY
They came for the communists, and I did not speak up because I wasn't a
communist;
They came for the socialists, and I did not speak up because I
was not a socialist;
They came for the union leaders, and I did not speak
up because I wasn't a union leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't
speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me, and there was no
one left to speak up for me.
-Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984
CREATING
The greatest masterpieces
were once only pigments on a palette.
- Henry S. Haskins
COMMITTMENT
Unless commitment is made,
there are only promises and hopes;
but no plans.
- Peter F. Drucker
CONSCIENCE
The person that loses their conscience
has nothing left worth keeping.
- Izaak Walton
COURAGE
Courage in danger is half the battle
- Plautus
CONTROVERSY
The ultimate measure of a man
is not where he stands
in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands
at times of challenge and controversy.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
DANGER
Don't play for safety.
It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
- Hugh Walpole
DELAY
You may delay,
but time will not.
- Benjamin Franklin
DESTINY
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for,
it a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
DIFFICULTIES
We must never despair;
our situation has been compromising before,
and it has changed for the better;
so I trust it will again.
If difficulties arise,
we must put forth new exertion
and proportion our efforts
to the exigencies of the times.
- George Washington
DIGNITY
Dignity does not consist on possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle
DISCIPLINE
The secret of discipline is motivation.
When a man is sufficiently motivated,
discipline will take care of itself.
- Sir Alexander Paterson
DOUBTS
Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we often might win,
by fearing to attempt.
- William Shakespeare
FUTURE
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
HELPING
A helping word to one in trouble
is like a switch in a railroad track...
an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
- Henry Ward Beecher
ELOQUENCE
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. -Pascal (1623-1662)
EXAMPLES
Example is contagious behavior.
- Charles Reade
EXPERIENCE
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterward. - unknown
EVIL
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
FAILURES
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as
evidence of fundamental incapacity.
This negative thinking pattern can
create a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning
process.
To maximize our learning it is essential to ask: "How can we
get the most from every mistake we make?"
- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Courtesy of Lorraine Day
FAILURES
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call
failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-Mary Pickford
FEAR
The lens of fear magnifies the size of the uncertainty.
- Charles Swindall
FRIEND
A true friend will
stand in for you
stand up for you,
and stand by you.
- Nicole Beale
FRIENDSHIP
Friendship is like a bank account;
you cannot continue to draw on it
without making a deposit.
- Nicole Beale
FRIENDS
- This is one of my favorites quotes, and a courner stone in my life.
GENEROSITY
Generosity is giving more than you can,
and pride is taking less than you
need. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
GOALS
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of
our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus
and move us in a direction. The only reason we really
pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in
the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the
obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give
you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
GOALS
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage
to no certain port.
- Michel de Montaigne
GROWTH
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow we are
not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of
security.
It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting
patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer
believed in relationships that have lost their meaning.
As
Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word,
is what people fear most". The real fear should be of the
opposite course.
- Gail Sheehy -
HABIT
Habits are safer than rules;
you don't have to watch them.
And you don't have to keep them, either,
they keep you.
- Dr. Frank Crane
HAPPINESS
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make
me happy.
-J.D. Salinger
HATE
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.
What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
-Herman Hesse
HUMOR
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
-Mel Brooks
HELP
The healthy and strong individual
is the one who asks for help when he needs it.
Whether he's got an abscess on his knee, or in his soul.
- Rona Barrett
HUNCHES
Trust your hunches.
They're usually based
on facts filed away
just below the conscious level.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
HUMILITY
Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride,
when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium.
The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem.
A humble person is totally different from
a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself
as part of this worlds marvels.
- Rabino Nilton Bonder
IDEAS
Man's mind stretched to a new idea
never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
IDEAS
The vitality of thought is an adventure.
Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor,
live for it, and if need be, die for it.
- Alfred North Whitehead
IMAGINATION
Imagination is only intelligence having fun.
- George Scialabbe
KINDNESS
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
KINDNESS
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground,
but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Arthur Helps
KINDNESS
If you have not often felt
the joy of doing a kind act,
you have neglected much,
and most of all yourself.
- A. Neilen
LIFE
Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
-- Chinese proverb
LIFE
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to
live for.
-Dostoyevsky
LIFE
One should count each day a separate life.
- Marcus Arelius
LIFE
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
MISTAKES
Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad,
viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity.
This negative thinking pattern can create
a self-fulfilling prophecy, which undermines the learning
process. To maximize our learning it is essential to ask:
"How can we get the most from every mistake we make?"
- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
Lessons from the Art of Juggling
MODERATION
Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
It prevents moderation from acquiring
the deadening effect of a habit.
- William Somerset Maugham
MUSIC
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. -Beethoven
NEGOTIATION
If you are planning on doing business with someone again,
don't be too tough in the negotiations.
If you're going to skin a cat,
don't keep it as a house cat.
- Marvin S. Levin
OBSTACLES
Success is not measured by
the position one has reached in life,
rather by the obstacles
overcome while trying to succeed
- Booker T. Washington
PERSUASION
Use soft words and hard arguments.
- English Proverb
PRINCIPLE
You may be flexible on strategy,
but must remain consistent on principle.
- Unknown
PROCRASTINATION
By the street of By-and-By,
one arrives at the house of Never.
- Cervantes
PAST
The past is a guide post,
not a hitching post.
- L. Thomas Holdcroft
QUALITY
Quality is never an accident;
it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort,
intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- William A. Foster
RISK
What isn't tried won't work.
- Claude McDonald
RELATIONSHIPS
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship
is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
And if
our words and our actions come from superficial human
relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than
from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will
sense that duplicity.
We simply won't be able to create and
sustain the foundation necessary for effective
interdependence.
- Stephen R. Covey
RELATIVITY
When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour,
it seems like a minute.
But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute,
and it's longer than any hour.
That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
SUCCESS
Always aim for achievement,
and forget about auccess.
- Helen Hayes
SELF
He that would be superior to external influences
must first become superior to his own passions.
- Samuel Johnson
SERIOUS
The one important thing
I have learned over the years
is the difference between
taking one's work seriously
and taking one's self seriously.
The first is imperative
and the second is disastrous.
- Margaret Fontey
Technology...
the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to
experience it. -Max Frisch
TROUBLE
He who seeks trouble always finds it.
- English Proverb
TRUTH
Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth
-- Thomas Jefferson
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. -Proverb
VALUE
Every man stamps his value on himself...
man is made great or small by his own will.
- J.C.F. von Schiller
Value is not intrinsic; it is not in things.
It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment.
-- Ludwig von Mises
WEALTH
To be satisfied with what one has;
that is wealth.
As long as on sorely needs a certain additional amount,
that man isn't rich.
- Mark Twain
WINNING
Winning isn't everything.
Wanting to win is.
- Catfish Hunter
WISDOM
Fools look to tomorrow.
Wise men use tonight.
- Scottish Proverb
WISDOM
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a
child.
-Ron Wild
WORTH
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Longfellow
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to god.
-- Thomas Jefferson
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly
vanquished.
-Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805)
I like simple, if it's complex then I don't understand it.
-Seymour Cray,
inventor of the Cray supercomputer
If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he
will soon find himself left alone.
A man, Sir, should keep his friendship
in constant repair.
-Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer (1709-1784)
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
-- Robert Heinlein
Isn't Disney World a People Trap Operated by a Mouse?
-Steven Wright
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge.
-- Thomas Sowell
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
-- H.L. Mencken
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and
multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
-Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle,
you mean that you
have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
-Otto von Bismarck
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a
leaf.
-Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet (1861-1941)
When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.
-Griffin's Thought
Every great movement must experience three stages:
ridicule, discussion,
adoption.
-John Stuart Mill
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have
things I am not able to appreciate.
-Elbert Hubbard
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are
treated.
-Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy,
but that we should
make ourselves happy.
-Immanuel Kant
Regret and fear are the twin thieves who rob us of today. - Robert Hastings
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
-Seneca
If a person never contradicts himself,
it must be that he says nothing.
-Miguel de Unamuno
May you live in interesting times.
-Ancient Chinese Curse
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -Shakespeare
"Theater is life, motion picture is art, televison is furniture." - unknown
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - unknown
Many a doctrine is like a window pane.
We see truth through it but it
divides us from truth.
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the
length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
-Diane
Ackerman
The Gems of wisdom from Children
Michael's Laws and other Sage Observations
Prayer from an Unknown Soldier
The Parachutes of life, Who packs yours?The value of a good bowl of Icecream
It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
for the places and people you're lucky you're not.
- Dr. Seuss
courtesy of
Petra Verkiak -
Got this from my excellent friend Thomas...
"A Kiss is that you cannot give without taking, and cannot
take without giving.
It is a course of procedure cunningly
devised for the mutual stoppage of speech for a moment when words
are superfluous.
The small boy gets it for nothing,
the young man has to steal it, and the old man has to buy it.
It is the baby's right, the lover's privilege, and the
hypocrite's mask.
To young girl, faith; married woman, hope;
old maid, charity.
A Kiss can be a comma, quotation mark or an
exclamation point.
It is also a pleasant reminder that two
heads are better than one."
-author unknown
NECESSITIES of LIFE
A sharp sword,
a good woman,
and a fast horse.
Wed, 24 Sep 1997
-Thomas Miller