Great Quotes

Famous Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

2011-02-27T04:23:00.000-08:00

“Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
“If it bleeds, we can kill it.” – Predator
“I have alove interest in every one of my films: a gun.”
“I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.”
“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”
“Haste la vista, baby.” –Terminator 2
“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”
“I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.”
“My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.”
“I'll be back.” –The Terminator“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”
“I walked down the aisle as Conan the Barbarian and walked back up again as Arnold the Meek.”
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
“My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.”
“One of my movies was called "True Lies" It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.”
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”
“When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.”
“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”
“My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.”

Quotes for the day

2010-11-30T21:19:00.001-08:00

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- Bertrand Russell

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
- Rita Rudner

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
- William Safire

Bruce Lee Quotes

2010-05-13T05:20:00.000-07:00

Art / Artistry

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.
The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.

General

It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. — To realize that it’s just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
“What is” is more important than “what should be.” Too many people are looking at “what is” from a position of thinking “what should be.”

Goals

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.
Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Growth / Learning

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
As you think, so shall you become.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Life

Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, unrhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Real living is living for others.
Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Mistakes

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Positive Thinking

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.
If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll make it impossible.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Personal Development

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.
The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Power / Speed / Flexibility

A powerful athlete is not a strong athlete, but one who can exert his strength quickly. Since power equals force times speed, if the athlete learns to make faster movements he increases his power, even though the contractile pulling strength of his muscles remains unchanged. Thus, a smaller man who can swing faster may hit as hard or as far as the heavier man who swings slowly.
Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way
The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

Self-Awareness

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. As the great Sun Tzu said: “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.

Simplicity

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.

Time

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
The timeless moment. — The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Truth

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Insightful and timeless quotations

2009-03-07T23:29:00.000-08:00

Perfect Perspective
"It’s great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who’s bald."
-- Rodney Dangerfield
Perserverence Pays
"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that precedes the victory."
--Karen Bliss Livingston
Fulfilled Happiness
"Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
--Benjamin Spock
Living Dangerously
"When a man knows how to live dangerously, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live."
--- William O. Douglas
War's Balance
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
-- Albert Einstein
Humor's Path
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
--Henry Ward Beecher
Opportuny Lost
"The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity."
--- Helen Rowland
Age of Laughter
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
--Michael Pritchard
Judge of Character
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
-- James D. Miles
A Great Society
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
--- Greek Proverb
Time Flies
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
--Michael Altshuler
Quality Faults
"It is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."
-- Bernard Berenson
Old v. Wise
"Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Perspectives
"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
-- William Teller
Make A Life
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
-- Winston Churchill
Attitude's Effect
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but its effect will make it worth the effort."
--Jeffrey Fry
A Life of Trust
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."
--Frank Crane
Committee's Dead End
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."
--Sir Barnett Cocks
Watch What You Do
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."
---- Andrew Carnegie
Curiosity's Cure?
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
--Dorothy Parker
Life of Miracles
"Life is full of miracles, but they’re not always the ones we pray for."
--- Eve Arden
Dream The Future
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
--Victor Hugo
Rare Opportunity
"Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him."
--Bayard Taylor
When To Talk
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
--Plato
Dare To Fail
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--Robert F. Kennedy
Skill Set
"Every expert began as an amateur."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Crowd Control
"Business today consists in persuading crowds."
--T. S. Eliot
God's In the Effort
"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
--Mother Teresa
Luck Factor
"Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?"
--Jean Cocteau
Power to Change
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
--Charles Darwin
Fear of Power
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
--Marianne Williamson
Risk Taker
"If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business."
--Ray Kroc
Make Yourself Useful
"You can render to humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself."
--- Wallace Whattles
Built to Win
"Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream."
--Emmitt Smith
The Scent of Victory
"Winning is like a deodorant. It covers up a lot that stinks."
--Doc Rivers
The Door of Happiness
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
--Helen Keller
Life Undone
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
-- George Bernard Shaw
History in the Making
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
--Otto von Bismarck
Fear and Undertanding
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
--Marie Curie
Conviction
"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Think You Can
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."
--Henry Ford
Time Sink
"A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours."
--Milton Berle
Happiness Moves
"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
--Benjamin Disraeli
Busy Makes Better
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
--Henry David Thoreau
Half Life
"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children."
--Clarence Darrow
Biased Man
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
--Francis Bacon
Our Inner Limits
"We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything."
--Blaise Pascal
The Sign of Success
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important."
--Mary Kay Ash
A Man's Value
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein
Escape the Outdated
"The difficulty does not lie in finding new ideas, but in escaping the long outdated belief in old ones."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Short and Sweet
"A short saying often contains much wisdom."
--Sophocles
Pick Battles
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
--Jonathan Kozol
Genius Inspired
"Inspiration and genius -- one and the same."
--Victor Hugo
Wealth In Intelligence
"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."
--Julius Rosenwald
Never Tried
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
--Theodore Roosevelt
Blind Faith
"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
--Ralph Hodgson
Speed Bumps
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
--Henry Ford
Immortality
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
--Woody Allen
Ability's Opportunity
"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
-- Nepoleon Bonaparte
Brain Focus
"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
--Ray Knight
Creativity Unchained
"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
--Erich Fromm
Hard as Diamonds
"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck at it no matter how much heat or pressure they faced."
--Jeffrey Fry
Your Consent
"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Mistaken Name
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde
Tenacity's Voracity
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
--Louis Pasteur
Risky Business
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
--George S. Patton
What We Remember
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
--Martin Luther King Jr.
Humorless People
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."
--Henry Ward Beecher
Education's Aim
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
--Herbert Spencer
Just Do It
"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
--John Wooden
Excellence in Failure
"Reward excellent Failures; punish mediocre Successes."
-- Phil Daniels
Moment of Decision
"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
Curiousity's Relativity
"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
An Unselfish Effort
"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
--Helen Keller
How We Know Our Friends
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
--John Churton Collins
False Hopes
"The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so."
--Rene Dubos
Learn the Fool
"To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool."
-- Jeffrey Fry
The Canvas of Life
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it."
--Danny Kaye
Happiness' Point of View
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
--Martha Washington
Leadership's Direction
"The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way."
--Henry Miller
The Price of Quality
"I have always believed that quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten."
--Stanley Marcus
Businesses Beating Heart
"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
--Thomas J. Watson
Facts Ignored
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
--Aldous Huxley
A Rich Heart
"It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
--Henry Ward Beecher
Born To Succeed
"Men are born to succeed, not fail."
--Henry David Thoreau
Details
"Trifles make perfection, and prefection is no trifle."
--Michelangelo
Integrity Rules
"Integrity has no need of rules."
--Albert Camus
Composed Enthusiast
"The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool."
--William McFee
The Ideal Distance
"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
--John Galsworthy
Insight's Value
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Uncommon Sense
"I read. I study. I examine. I listen. I reflect, and out of all this I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can."
-- Marquis de Lafayette
Experimental Life
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
True Happiness
"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness."
--Ray Lyman Wilbur
Character Revealed
"Entrepreneurship does not build character; it reveals character."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Fool's Prophet
"Jesters do often prove prophets."
--William Shakespeare
Perfection's Progress
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."
--Voltaire
Labor Lost
"Learning without thought is labor lost."
--Confucius
Thanksgiving Frequency
"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."
--Edward Sandford Martin
Great Deeds
"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
--Albert Camus
Well Done
"The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know Best
"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught."
--Marquis de Vauvenargues
What is Luck?
"There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Success' Parentage
"Success has many fathers. Failure is an orphan."
-- Unknown
Attention to Detail
"Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich."
--Henry Ford
Shared Insterests
"The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours."
-- Jean de La Bruyère
Believe In Great Things
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
--Anatole France
Benefit Others
"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves."
--Lydia Child
Perservere to Victory
"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
Life Expansive
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
--Anais Nin
Lead By Asking
"Leadership begins by asking how you can make things better?"
-- Jeffrey Fry
Impossible Fun
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
--Walt Disney
Real Change
"Diapers and politicians need to be changed for the same reason."
--Anonymous
Scoring Business
"Business is a good game, lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money."
-- Nolan Bushnell
Motivation Management
"Management is nothing more than motivating other people."
--Lee Iacocca
First Class
"Once you have gone first class, everything else is coach."
-- Jeffrey Fry
The Art of Living
"The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both."
--James Michener
A Mule's Kick
"There is no education in the second kick of a mule."
--Proverb

Don't Say, Do
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
-- Hilary Johns
Good Things
"Most of the good things civilization has achieved are the result of somebody's seeing, in his mind's eye, how to do something better, or make something better."
--Cason J. Callaway
Explain Why
"You can spend an hour explaining how to slice a lemon--if you first explain why it is important to know."
--Ken Futch
Age Discovered
"You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Excellence Known
"Excellence in any undertaking can be found in details that most people barely notice, but those who know know."
-- Gene Griessman
Opportunities' Perspective
"Opportunities always look bigger going than coming."
-- Proverb
Ability's Demand
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
--Malcolm Forbes
Where The Sun Shines
"Just when you think the sun shines out of your butt, all you have is an illuminated landing area."
--Nolan Bushnell
Worth The Fight?
"These are called trinkets, I know...It is trinkets these soldiers fight for."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
Truly Whole
"Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole."
-- Richard M. Nixon
Hell And Beyond
"When you are going through hell, keep going."
-- Winston Churchill
Greatest Compliment
"The greatest compliment you can receive is being counted on."
-- John Maxwell
Personal Attitude
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
--Hugh Downs
Resolve to Perform
"Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve."
--Benjamin Franklin
Imagination's Importance
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
Life: Purpose & Meaning
"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give it away."
-- David Viscott
Face Change
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Arthur Baldwin
Future Empires
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
--Winston Churchill
Life Backwards & Forwards
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
--Soren Kierkegaard
Inflated Worth
“It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.”
-- Malcolm Forbes
Opportunity's Clothes
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
--Henry J. Kaiser
Unexpected Success
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
-- Henry David Thoreau
Experience's Perspective
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
--Aldous Huxley
A True Measure
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
--Ann Landers
Failure Avoided
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
--Thomas Edison
Leaders Extrodinaire
"Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Success in Numbers
"Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be."
-- Charlie Brower
Entrepreneur's Ante
"You don't deserve to be called an entrepreneur unless you've mortgaged your house to the business."
--Edward S. (Ted) Rogers
Financing's Trail
"Financing is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
--Robert Sarnoff
Think It First
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
--Albert Szent Gyorgyi
Discover New Lands
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
--Andre Gide
Success & Failure
"Success represents the 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure."
--Soichiro Honda
The Expense of Poverty
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
--James Baldwin
Conformist's Bane
"No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist."
--J. Paul Getty
Need to Know
"All education amounts to is knowing how to find out what you need to know."
-- Dr. Robert Engass
Happiness' Heartbeat
"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
--Adam Smith
Dream's Lifespan
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
--James Dean
The Right Customers
"Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Obstacles Measure the Man
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
--Booker T. Washington
Determination's Difference
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
--Tommy Lasorda
The Greatest Ability
"I believe the greatest ability to possess is the ability to find, develop, and promote abilities in other people."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Buy In
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
– John Maxwell
Exclusive Knowledge
"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
--Aristotle Onassis
Do or Do Not
"Do ... or do not. There is no try."
-- Yoda
Lost Time
"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
What Not How
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
--George S. Patton Jr.
Catch Bricks
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
--David Brinkley
Persistent People
"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
--Edward Eggleston
Preparation for Success
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
--Henry Ford
Energy and Presistence
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
--Benjamin Franklin
Growing Up
"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."
-- Bobby Orbach
Marturity
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
--Dave Barry
Keep Going
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and always will solve the problems of the human race and divide those who achieve from those who might have been."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Manners Matter
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Unseen Potential
"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
--Martha Grimes
Beyond Yourself
"True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Silence
"Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody's listening."
--Franklin P. Jones
A Job Begun
"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Watch and Learn
"You can observe a lot just by watching."
--Yogi Berra
Show and Tell
"Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will learn. Involve me and I will understand."
-- Confucius
Marketing Mastered
"Marketing takes a day to learn, but a lifetime to master."
-- Phil Kotler
Don't Interrupt Doers
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
--Chinese Proverb
Destiny Achieved
"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
Life Outlasted
"The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
--James Truslow Adams
Opportunity Rises
"Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Love Triumphant
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
--H.L. Mencken
A Different Road
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A Handful of Change
"Never doubt that a handful of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
Ability and Character
"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
-- John Wooden
Oppotunist's Sandwich
Message"An Opportunist can hand out baloney disguised as food for thought."
-- Karl Wagner
Opportunitiy's Overalls
"Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-- Thomas Alva Edison
Perpetual Optimism
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
-- Colin Powell
Keep on Trying
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
--Dale Carnegie
Looking at Difficutly
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist see the opportunity in every difficulty."
-- Winston Churchill
Liberty's Dangers
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Lois D. Brandeis
Perception is Reality
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
--Norman Vincent Peale
Vison and Action
"Vision without action is merely a dream, action without vision is merely passing time, but vision with action can change the world"
-- Nelson Mandela
Decorum
"When you're wrong, admit it. When you're right, shut up."
-- Ogden Nash
Vision Does Not Count
"Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
--Vaclav Havel
Political Choices
"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
-- J. K. Galbraith
Life's Requirements
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
-- Albert Einstein
Invent the Future
"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
-- Alan Kay
Walk the Talk
"The essence of a culture is in its performance, not its proclamations."
-- Andrew Vachss
Core Leadership
"There is nothing more inspiring and stimulating than being in the company of optimists. It is the core of true leadership."
-- Thomas Joyce
Price of Security
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Great Attempts
"The great are they who attempt the difficult things lesser men avoid."
-- Indian Proverb
Luck Counts
"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
--Larry King
Character Counts
“The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy."
-- Martin Luther King
Future Investments
"Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one."
--H.W. Lewis
Solve Problems
"Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
--Roger Lewin
Portal to Success
"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."
--Mary O'Hare Dumas
Find Talented People
“I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a plethora of mediocre ones.”
-- Jeffrey Fry
Enjoy Wealth
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
--Benjamin Franklin
Sharp Focus
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain
Glory in Rising
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
--Confucius
Fuzzy Logic
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept."
--Ansel Adams
Earth's Owners
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."
--Native American Proverb
Better Done
“Well done is better than well said."
--Benjamin Franklin
Ideas Need Action
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
--Arnold Glasow
Find It
“I do not seek, I find."
--Pablo Picasso
Balanced Thought
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
--Aristotle
Proof In The Imagination
“What is now proved was once only imagined."
--William Blake
Keep It Up
“He conquers who endures."
--Persius
Stay With The Problem
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
--Albert Einstein
Perserverance's Fine Line
“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
--Henry Ward Beecher
Green Grass
"The grass may look greener on the other side, but it's just as hard to cut.”
-- Little Richard
Keep on Walking
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
--Buddhist Saying
Human Differentiation
“What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.”
-- Jeffrey Fry
Real Humility
“Real humility is to know the extent of one's arrogance.”
-- Winston Hodge
Play Big
“Playing small doesn't serve the world in any way.”
-- Nelson Mandela
Short and Steady
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."
--Walter Elliott
Rise After the Failure
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Destiny is Internal
“No matter who you are, no matter what you aspire to, no matter what you have attempted in the past, the way you feel about yourself now will determine the outcome of anything that you do.”
--Ray Shapley, Sr.
One's Own Ignorance
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
--Confucius
A Mind Stretched
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Learning Counts
“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
--John Wooden
Schooling's Not Education
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
-Mark Twain
Distaster's Opportunity
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."
--John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
Hope On A Feeling
“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
--Jean Kerr
Supreme Happiness
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
--Victor Hugo
Good From Bad Judgement
“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
--Rita Mae Brown
High Aspirations Small Needs
“Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
--William Howard Stein
No Good Contract
“There is no such thing as a good contract when dealing with a bad man.”
-- Mark Murdock
Invincible Determination
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."
--Dr. Thomas Fuller
Change Thyself
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
--Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Vitality Restarts
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
No Time Like Today
“A year from now you may wish you had started today."
--Karen Lamb
Self Waste
“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves."
--George M. Adams
Maybes
“For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are "It might have been!"”
-- William Wordsworth
Life's Fear
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
--John Henry Cardinal Newman
Life's Years
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln
Use Time Wisely
“Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of."
--Charles Richards
Optimist v. Pessimist
“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
--Bill Vaughan
Character Has No Price
” He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
--Henry Ward Beecher
Smiles are Ageless
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
--Mark Twain
A Path with No Obstacles
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."
--Frank A. Clark
Strength
“I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
--Jewish Proverb
Perfection
“The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."
--Stanley J. Randall
Balanced
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
--Chinese Proverb
What is Really Important
“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."
--Doug Larson
A New System
“It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the Initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new.”
--Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513
Soul of Friendship
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
--Aristotle
Success in Your Child's Eyes
"You can use most any measure when you're speaking of success.
You can measure it in a fancy home, expensive car or dress.
But the measure of your real success is one you cannot spend—
It's the way your child describes you when talking to a friend."
-- Martin Baxbaum
Wisdom Conquers Fear
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
--Bertrand Russell
Lead with Dreams
"A true leader follows the dreams of those he leads."
--Douglas Whatley
Point the Way
“The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."
--Henry Miller
Fear & Courage
“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Leaders' Vision
“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them."
--Robert Jarvik
Leaders' Balance
“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit."
--John C. Maxwell
Leaders Make Leaders
“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."
--Tom Peters
Leadership Floats
”A leader is a dealer in hope."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
Foolish Grief
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
--Cicero
Lead By Example
“You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself."
--Gene Mauch
Kings and Pawns
“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
—Italian proverb
Sharpen Your Ax
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I ’d spend six sharpening my ax.”
—Abraham Lincoln
You Fail Alone
“There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.”
-- Jeffrey Fry
Try, Try, Try
“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
-- Beverly Sills
You Can't Please Everyone
“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
--Bill Cosby
Enthusiastic Failure
"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill
Luck Happens
“Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."
--Larry King
Dare to Achieve
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--Robert Francis Kennedy
Failure Equals Success
“If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate."
--Thomas John Watson, Sr.
What Matters
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
--Dr. Seuss
Originality
“You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
--John Mason
Lincoln on Being Human
“Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed."
--Abraham Lincoln
Fear or Faith
"Fear and faith cannot survive at the same time, so sustain and choose faith."
-- Jim Ledoux
Despair's Antidote
“Action is the antidote to despair."
--Joan Baez
Do Good in Bad Times
“It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.”
-- Jeffrey Fry
Success Waits for No Man
“I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it."
--Jonathan Winters
Commitment's Magic
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Lazy Man
“If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man, he will find an easier way of doing it.”
--Mark Twain
Show Your Benefits
“Unless you can demonstrate your benefits, all you are left to compete with is price.”
-- Jeffrey Fry
Success' Aim
“Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."
--David Frost
Zen Destiny
“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."
--Zen
Diplomacy
“Diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to hell and have them look forward to going there.”
--Unknown
Seek Wisdom
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."
--Matsuo Basho
The Strong Forgive
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness
"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting."
--William Arthur Ward
Compound Interest
"Compound interest is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time."
--Albert Einstein
Life Planning
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
--Joseph Campbell
A Big Difference
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
--Winston Churchill
Excellence's Attitude
"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."
--Ralph Marston
Motivation
"It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to."
--Annie Gottlier
Create Your Future
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
--Peter Drucker
On The Return
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back."
--Chinese Proverb
No Compromises
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."
--Janis Joplin
False Value
"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
--Malcolm S. Forbes
Astound Yourself
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
--Thomas Alva Edison
A Risk Too Far
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
--T.S. Eliot
Responsibility
"A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed."
--William James
Failed to Do
"Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Read The Writing
"Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else."
--Ivern Ball
The Places You'll Go
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
--Lawrence J. Peter
Vision in Action
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."
--Japanese Proverb
I'd Rather Win
"What I have learned from defeat is that I would rather win."
-- Bill Darnall
Victory & Defeat
"From victory we learn little, from defeat - everything."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Dream the Future
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Feel Your Best
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart."
--Helen Keller
Be Different
"If you cannot differentiate something, or when you do differentiate it, it makes no difference, then it's just noise. Differentiate!"
-- Mark Twain
Poor Eyesite
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain
Perception
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
--Henry David Thoreau
Do Not Rush Nature
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
--Lao Tzu
Indefatigable
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
--Ayn Rand
Entice Opportunity
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
--Milton Berle
A Risk Too Far
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
--T.S. Eliot
Remedy
"Don't find fault. Find a remedy."
--Henry Ford
Movement Matters
"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still."
--Chinese Proverb
Wisdom Finds Opportunities
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Francis Bacon
Step on Blocks
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
--Jack Penn
What Can't Be Done
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
--Henry Ford
The Right Direction
"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking."
--Buddhist Saying
Second Winds
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
--William James
Unlearned Education
"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
--Mark Twain
Mind Warped
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reluctently Taught
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
--Winston Churchill
Learning Advances Us
"Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back."
--Chinese Proverb
Thouhts to Destiny
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."
--Tryon Edwards
Getting (un)Even
"Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."
--Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Hope Floats
"Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
--Jean Kerr
Resolution for Success
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any one thing."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Opinion and Thought
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
--John F. Kennedy
The Good Fight
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith
--2 Timothy 4:7
Pessimist versus Optimist
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
--Harry Truman
Motivational Leadership
"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
Measured Life
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
--Unknown
Solitude
"You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself."
--Jeffrey Fry
Judgement
"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
--Rita Mae Brown
Proportion
"Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs."
--William Howard Stein
Not From Concentrate
"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."
--Ray Knight
Determination
"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination."
--Tommy Lasorda
Vitality Renews
"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Wise are Happy
"Wisdom is the most important part of happiness."
--Sophocles
Happiness is Life
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
--Aristotle
Center Your Thoughts
"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
--Charles F. Kettering
Waste Not with Laughter
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
--e. e. cummings
Friends Fend Off Failure
“No one is ever a Failure when he has Friends.”
--Unknown
Share Knowledge
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
-- Margaret Fuller
Don't Think, Be Happy
"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."
--Palmer Sondreal
Be Happy
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
--Edith Wharton
Certain in Misery
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
--Robert Anthony
Broad Shoulders
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
--Jewish Proverb
Do Right
"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astound the rest."
-- Mark Twain
The Assault of Laughter
"Against the assault of Laughter, nothing can stand."
-- Mark Twain
Money is Not Happiness
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Sympathy's Dividends
"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."
--Malcolm S. Forbes
Kindness Happens
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."
--Seneca
Do Your Best
"If a man had done his best, what else is there?"
--General George S. Patton
How to Succeed
"Rather fail by honor than succeed by fraud."
--Sophocles
Fools Speak
“Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
--Abraham Lincoln
Value of Money
"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Accountability
“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.”
- Thomas Jefferson
More Pain More Gain
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it."
--Epicurus
Kindness
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
--Plato
Self-made Man
"There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others."
--George Shinn
Experience Happens
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
--Aldous Huxley
Life and Living
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill
Knowledge versus Wisdom
"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day."
--Zen Saying
What We Find Useful
"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
--Herbert Hoover
Sail Away
"You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
-- Old Greek Proverb
There You Are
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
--Confucius
Live Bravely
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage Can Wisper
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow."
--Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage Can Stand or Sit
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
--Winston Churchill
Einstein's Value Formula
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein
A Universal Language
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
--Mark Twain
Giving of Self
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
--Kahlil Gibran
True Bravery
"Bravery is when a man walks into a battle he is not sure of winning."
--Jeffrey Fry
Change's Inertia
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."
--Kurt Lewin
Attitude's Altitude
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
--William James
Courage Conquers
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill
The Happy Hearth
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thought Makes Us So
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."
--Buddha
Show Courage
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
Possibilities
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
--Robert Hutchings Goddard
Love & Work
"Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life!"
---Confucius
The Bounce Back
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
--George S. Patton
Alternatives
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."
--Latin Proverb
The Mark of Trust
"Don't trust anyone who doesn't contradict themselves"
--Holly Jane Cundiff
What You Don't Know
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso
Mistakes Make A Man
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
--John Edward Phelps
The Soul of Character
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved."
--Helen Keller
Integrity Thins
"Integrity is like oxygen. The higher you go, the less there is of it."
--Paul Dickson
Life's Mettle
"As a blacksmith uses heat to harden iron, so should a trial by fire strengthen one’s mettle."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Life's Possibilities
Anything in life is possible if you make it happen. And it's never too late.
--Jack La Lanne
Character's Test
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
--John Holt
The Greater Teacher
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
--William Hazlitt
Speak or Listen
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wisdom's Profit
"All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it."
--Syrus
Wisdom's Companion
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
--Saint Augustine
Modest Wisdom
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
--Mahatma Gandhi
Knowledge and Wisdom
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
--Immanuel Kant
Fill Your Mind
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
--Malcolm S. Forbes
Balancing Thought
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
--Aristotle
Happiness Is Not A Destination
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel -- not a destination."
--Roy M. Goodman
Wealth in Service
"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
--Henry Ford
Wealth & Wisdom
"Wisdom outweighs any wealth."
--Sophocles
Fool's Criticism
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do."
--Benjamin Franklin
Belief Makes It So
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe in Your Success
"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."
--Lydia M. Child
Live Life
"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
--Stephen Covey
Luck's Mother
"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
--Benjamin Franklin
Life's a Turtle
Life is like a turtle; you only make progress when you stick your neck out.
-- Unknown
Are You Experienced?
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
--Jimi Hendrix
Make People Better Than You
"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability."
--Fred A. Manske Jr.
Be All You Can Be
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
--Max Depree
The Art of Teaching
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
Peace at Home
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Pursuit of Knowledge
"Of all human pursuits the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most profitable, the most delightful."
--St. Thomas Aquinas
Invention's Motivator
"If necessity is the Mother of Invention, then dissatisfaction must be its Father."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Honesty
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
-- Felix Frankfurter
Change
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
-- Confucius
Cleverness
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
-- Mahfouz Naguib
Universal Equine Equatation
"In the history of the man, there has been and always will be more horses' asses than horses."
-- Jeffrey Fry
Strength & Courage
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
-- Lao-Tzu
Meaning of Life
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
-- Joshua J. Marine
Laugh at Yourself
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Measure of a Man
“The ultimate measure of a man (person) is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his way of life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother or sister to a higher and more noble life.”
-- Martin Luther King
Win-Win
"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others."
--Peter Farquharson
Friends & Enemies
"If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway."
-- Mother Theresa
Leadership Matters
"Every endeavor, no matter how large or small, rises and falls on leadership."
--Jeffrey Fry
Great Spirits
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein
Human Spirit
"Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit."
-- Bern Williams
How to Live
"When a man knows how to live dangerously, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live."
--- William O. Douglas
See the Impossible
"Only those who can see the invisible, can do the impossible."
-- Jeffrey Fry

Quotations about Women

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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ~Marcel Achard, Quote, 4 November 1956

Sure God created man before woman. But then you always make a rough draft before the final masterpiece. ~Author Unknown

Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. ~Marianne Williamson, "A Woman's Worth"

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. ~Carrie Snow

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. ~Laurence J. Peter

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. ~Author Unknown

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon. ~Arnold Haultain

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. ~Charlotte Whitton

Women are always beautiful. ~Ville Valo

The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. ~Ellery Queen

Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West

Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women. ~Nicole Hollander

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. ~Author Unknown

Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage. ~Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~Chauncey Mitchell Depew

The rarest thing in the world is a woman who is pleased with photographs of herself. ~Elizabeth Metcalf

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~Madeleine K. Albright

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde

There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. ~Harold Robbins

When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. ~Author Unknown

Men get laid, but women get screwed. ~Quentin Crisp

The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. ~Germaine Greer

Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. ~Ovid

Howiver, I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men. ~George Eliot, "The Harvest Supper," Adam Bede

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. ~W.C. Fields

Women really do rule the world. They just haven't figured it out yet. When they do, and they will, we're all in big big trouble. ~"Doctor Leon," drleons.com

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ~George Meredith

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. ~George du Maurier

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right - instantly. ~Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom. ~Guy de Maupassant

I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. ~Gail Sheehy

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. ~Simone de Beauvoir

They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken. ~Author Unknown

Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.
~Matthew Prior

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. ~Oliver Goldsmith

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. ~Edgar Wallace

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone. ~J.M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis

Men will always delight in a woman whose voice is lined with velvet. ~Brendan Francis

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I married beneath me - all women do. ~Nancy Astor, speech, Oldham, England, 1951

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. ~Elsa Schiaparelli

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments. ~Art Buchwald, 1974

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~Oscar Wilde

She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. ~Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman. ~Alexandre Dumas, fils

I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. ~Fred Allen

When a woman comes to her glass, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress. ~Joseph Addison

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A woman should soften but not weaken a man. ~Sigmund Freud

Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones. ~Camille Paglia

When I glimpse the backs of women's knees I seem to hear the first movement of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. ~Author Unknown

A woman wears her tears like jewelry. ~Author Unknown

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

No woman wants to see herself too clearly. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. ~Bella Abzug

The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panti-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ~Margaret Atwood

Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. ~Carolyn Kenmore

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~Alfred Capus

No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap. ~Author Unknown

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman. ~Honoré de Balzac, The Physiology of Marriage

The girls that are always easy on the eyes are never easy on the heart. ~Author Unknown

Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on. ~Billy Joel

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery. ~Diana Stürm

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman. ~Nancy Astor, My Two Countries

God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you. ~Mrs Patrick Campbell, in reply to a male acquaintance who asked why women seem to have no sense of humor

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

The chief excitement in a woman's life is spotting women who are fatter than she is. ~Helen Rowland

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. ~Stanley Baldwin

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves. ~Elissa Melamed

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married? ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~Compton Mackenzie, Literature in My Time, 1933

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. ~Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

Let us leave the beautiful women to men with no imagination. ~Marcel Proust,Albertine disparue, 1925

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty-eight and forty. ~James Thurber, Time, 15 August 1960

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. ~Bette Davis, about Jayne Mansfield

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. ~Washington Irving

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of that one. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate. ~Mel Gibson, about what women want

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular. ~E.V. Lucas

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be. ~Benny Hill

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares. ~Elbert Hubbard

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ~Robert Graves

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore. ~Edward Dahlbert

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A woman should be an illusion. ~Ian Fleming

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. ~Stephen Stills

It is because of men that women dislike one another. ~Jean de La Bruyère,Characters, 1688

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. ~Thomas Carlyle

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ~Tallulah Bankhead

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus

A man chases a woman until she catches him. ~American Proverb

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. ~G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1910

Beauty is the first present Nature gives to women, and the first it takes away. ~Méré

Brains are an asset, if you hide them. ~Mae West

With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her. ~John Vanbrugh, The Relapse, 1696

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? ~Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, 1970

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. ~Edna Ferber

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. ~Germaine Greer

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak. ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ~Fran Lebowitz

You're booty-blinded. You know what that is? It's like being snow-blinded only it ain't no snow, it's a cute little piece of ass. ~From the movie I Spy

Men have been paying taco tax for centuries, millennia probably. ~Rick Claro

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

To get to a woman's heart, a man must first use his own. ~Mike Dobbertin, quoted in A 5th Portion of Chicken Soup for the Soul

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. ~Cornelia Otis Skinner, attributed

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ~Samuel Johnson

Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. ~William Shakespeare

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. ~James Thurber

I hate women because they always know where things are. ~Voltaire

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. ~Hermione Gingold

The people I'm furious with are the women's liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket. ~Anita Loos, New York Times, 10 February 1974

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. ~H.L. Mencken

Quotes about women

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“When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.”

“Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled underfoot; but out of his side to be equal to him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be loved”

“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her”

“God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him”

“Man loves little and often: Woman much and rarely”

“The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her.”

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses”

“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.”

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”

“Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions”

“A woman is like a tea bag, you can not tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water”

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.”

“There are easier things in life than trying to find a nice guy...like nailing jelly to a tree for example”

“Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.”

“The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him”

“Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her”

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”

“The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain”

“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.”

“Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears”

“The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there”

“The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back”

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes";”

“If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do”

“Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature”

“Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage”

“Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler”

“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.”

“Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms”

Every moment is precious

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To realize the value of...

One Year : Ask a Student who has failed in the examination.

One Month : Ask a Mother who has given birth to a prematured baby.

One Week : Ask an Editor of a weekly periodical.

One Day : Ask a Daily wage labour.

One hour : Ask the Lovers waiting to meet.

One Min. : Ask the Person who missed the flight.

One Sec. : Ask Someone who survived an accident.

One Milli Sec. : Ask the Sprinter who missed the gold medal in olympics.

So, Treasure every moment you have.

The Value Of Time

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To realize the value of ONE YEAR

Ask a student who has failed his exam.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK

Ask an editor of a weekly.

To realize the value of ONE DAY

Ask a daily wage laborer.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR

Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE

Ask a person who has missed the train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND

Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLI-SECOND

Ask the person who has won a silver medal in Olympics.

To realize the value of ONE MICRO-SECOND

Ask a NASA scientist.

To realize the value of ONE NANO-SECOND

Ask a Hardware Engineer.

And if you still don't realize the value of time you must be

a Software Engineer!

If Only Life Could Be Like A Computer:

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If you messed up your life, you could press "Ctrl, Alt, Delete" and start

all over!

To get your daily exercise, just click on "run"! If you needed a break from

life, click on suspend.

Hit "any key" to continue life when ready.

To get even with the neighbors, turn up the sound blaster.

To add/remove someone in your life, click settings and control panel.

To improve your appearance, just adjust the display settings.

If life gets too noisy, turn off the speakers.

When you loose your car keys, click on find.

"Help" with the chores is just a click away.

Auto insurance wouldn't be necessary. You would use your diskette to

recover from a crash.

And, we could click on "SEND NOW" and a Pizza would be on it's way to you.

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Winner's Vs Loser's

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1.The Winnner is always a part of the answer.

The Loser is always a part of the problem.

2.The Winnner is always has a program.

The Loser is always has an excuse.

3.The Winnner says "Let me do it for you".

The Loser says "That's not my job".

4.The Winnner sees an answer in every problem.

The Loser sees a problem in every answer.

5.The Winnner says "It may be difficult but it is possible".

The Loser says "It may be possible but it is too difficult".

So,

Be a Winnner.

Funny Quotes from Friends

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Chandler Bing: [hangs up phone] I got her machine.
Joseph 'Joey' Tribbiani: Her answering machine?
Chandler Bing: No. Interestingly enough, her leaf-blower picked up.

Monica Geller: Okay, I've got a leg, three breasts, and a wing.
Chandler Bing: How do you find clothes that fit?

Chandler Bing: If I'm gonna be an old lonely guy, I need a thing, a hook. Like that guy in the subway who eats his own face. So I figure I'll be "Crazy man with a snake"! Crazy Snake Man! Then I'll buy more snakes, call them my children. Kids won't walk past my house, they will run! "Run away from Crazy Snake Man," they'll shout!

[On whether he can handle a particular problem.]
Chandler Bing: "Handle" is my middle name! Well, actually it's the middle part of my first name

Ross Geller: You know how at the end of the day, you throw your jacket over a chair?
Joey Tribbiani: Yeah?
Ross Geller: Well at her place, instead of a jacket, it's a pile of garbage. And instead of a chair, it's a pile of garbage. And instead of the end of the day, it's the end of time, and garbage is all that has survived.

Team work Quotes

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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity.
--Akio Morita

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
--Igor Sikorsky

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
--Brian Tracy

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek The teamwork is good and we act in unison. In keeping with our slightly different personalities, we share the tasks.
--Michel Patini

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
--Michael Jordan

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
--James Cash Penney

Leadership Quotes

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude;
be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully;
be thoughtful, but not lazy;
be humble, but not timid;
be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly."

Jim Rohn

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

William Arthur Wood

Great Quotes

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Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.
----- Dr. ABDUL KALAM.

Life is not a problem to be solved;
but reality to be experienced.
--Anonymous

Everything is incomplete without testing.
--Anonymous

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
--James Dean

Life can be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
--Anonymous

Nothing moves without driving actively with passion.
--Anonymous

Your Life is not a coincidence; it's a reflection of You.
--Anonymous

Dream is not the thing which you see in sleep,it is the thing which does not
allow you to sleep.
Hope for the best and plan for the worst.
--Anonymous

I do not know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody!!!
--Anonymous

You are the SOURCE of your own DESTINY.
--Anonymous

Chance favors prepared mind.
--Anonymous

Affection is an intangible one, but when it touches our heart, it becomes tangible.
--Anonymous

A house is made of bricks, but a home is made of hearts.
--Anonymous

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little bit longer.
--Fridtjof Nansen

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
--Arthur Ashe

It doesn't matter how you come to it...just that you do: Finally recognize that no one is responsible for your life but you.
--Oprah Winfrey

Nothing is permanent in this world, Not even our troubles.
--Charlie Chaplin

Quality is a Journey...Perfection is a habit...
--Anonymous

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
--Japanese Proverb

There is Never a Second Chance to Make a First Impression.
--Anonymous

Laziness is the worst enemy of humans.
--Jawaharlal Nehru

To ask may be a moment's shame for me, not to ask and remain ignorant is a life long shame.
--Japanese Proverb

You're never too old to grow up.
--Shirley Conan

Winning doesn't always mean being first, winning means you're doing better than you've done before.
--Anonymous

A 'wish' changes nothing.
A 'decision' changes everything.
--Anon

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act but a habit.
--Aristotle

The one human quality that must be developed is self discipline for success. The will power to force yourself to do what you know you should do when you should do it, whether you like it or not, whether you feel like it or not. Success is tons of discipline.
--Anonymous

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
--Bernard Edmonds

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you.
Most of all, other people can't stop you.
Only you can stop you.
--Anonymous

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing impossible.
--St. Francis of Assisi

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try.
--Beverley Sills

If you really want to succeed, form the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
--Anonymous

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal
--Earl Nightingale

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby

A man is a hero not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win
--Vince Lombardi

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
--Washington Irving

Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success
--Brain Adams

A good beginning makes a good ending.
--Anonymous

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any other ability under the sun.
--John D.Rockefeller

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotle

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood...
Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
--Daniel H. Burnham

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
--Alfred A. Montapert

Winners don't do different things.
They do things differently
--Shiv Khera

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run...
--Anonymous

"Being happy does not mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections"

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
--Albert Einstein

Do or Die is an Old saying..... But Do it before you Die is the latest saying
-- Anonymous

Dream is not the thing which you see in sleep,it is the thing which does not allow you to sleep.
----Dr Abdul Kalaam.

Ability may get you to the top but it takes character to keeo you there.
-- Anonymous

Look at things as they can be not as they are and you 'll gradually see the possibilities.
-- Anonymous

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
-- Anonymous

Golden Words of Hitler:

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When u r in light, everything will follow u. But when u enter dark, even your own shadow
will not follow u
that is life

God made relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

Keep a very firm grasp on reality, so you can strangle it at any time.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're getting.

People may not always believe what you say, but they will believe what you do.

I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

You can't have everything - where would you put it?

Laugh and the world ignore you. Crying doesn't help either.

God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.

Life is like a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Never trust a person who isn't having at least one crisis.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The only thing lazy people do fast is get tired.

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.

Silence is the only thing that can't be misquoted!

If we don't control our money, it will control us.

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die rich..

Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.

If you r living on the edge, make sure you're wearing your seat belt.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Minds, like parachutes, only function when they are open.

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.

Learn from other people's mistakes, life isn't long enough to make them all yourself.

On the road, never argue with a vehicle heavier than yours.

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Life is funny if you don't think about it.

Life is like a grammar lesson. You find the past perfect and the present tense.

There are two kinds of lawyers, those who know the law and those who know the judge.

More doors are opened with 'please' than with keys.

Humor from Great Minds

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"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... "
Sir Norman Wisdom

" One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."
Edgar Watson Howe

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! "
Doug Larson

"A harmful truth is always better then...a useful lie! "
Eric Bolton

" When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me."
Erno Philips

" I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'. "
Robert Paul

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's liv! es teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. "
Phyllis Diller

" Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
Victor Borge

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with."
W.C. Fields

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
Will Rogers

"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. "
Mickey Rooney

" Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children.
Men have the same choice we've always had: work or prison. "
Tim Allen

"If you never want to see a man again, say, 'I love you, I want to marry you. I want to have children...' - they leave skid marks."
Rita Rudner

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. "
Erica Jong

" Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."
Elbert Hubbard

"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
Wendell Johnson

"In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out. "
Joey Adams

"I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me."
Henry Youngman

"Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born ? "
Benny Hill

" Nothin is Impossible in this world. The word Impossible itself says I'm Possible"
Hussain Bhindarwala

Selected favourites

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"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

"'the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed “ the deed is everything."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or
privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was
forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her
hormonal identity."
- Camille Paglia

"Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything."
- Samuel Johnson

"There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the
role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors
finding that someone has changed the play."
- Brian Moore (Irish novelist, 1921-...)

"Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided
against ourselves."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
-Confucius

"We do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves."
- Mark Twain

"Only the shallow know themselves."
- Oscar Wilde

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He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
- Benjamin Disraeli

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- EB White

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quotes about dogs

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The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Anonymous

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than heloves himself. - Josh Billings

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney

Dogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of
pure love & always have to mix love & hate.
- Anonymous

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
- Franklin P. Jones

If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise- Unknown

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can.

That's almost $21.00 in dog money.- Joe Weinstein

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and

get used to the idea. - Robert A. Heinlein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you;
that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our
lives whole. - Roger Caras

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket
and then give him only two of them. - Phil Pastoret

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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
- Jane Wagner

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All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
- Harry S Truman

Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Oscar Wilde

Science fiction

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"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." - Isaac Asimov

Confucius Quotes

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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
- Leo Tolstoy

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

INSPIRING QUOTES FROM INSPIRING PEOPLE

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1. IN A DAY, WHEN YOU DON'T COME ACROSS ANY PROBLEMS - YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU ARE TRAVELING IN A WRONG PATH - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA

2. THREE SENTENCES FOR GETTING SUCCESS a) KNOW MORE THAN OTHER b) WORK MORE THAN OTHER c) EXPECT LESS THAN OTHER - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

3. DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANYONE IN THIS WORLD. IF YOU DO SO, YOU ARE INSULTING YOURSELF - ALEN STRIKE

4. IF WE CANNOT LOVE THE PERSON WHOM WE SEE, HOW CAN WE LOVE GOD, WHOM WE CANNOT SEE ? - MOTHER THERESA

5. NO MAN IS RICH ENOUGH TO BUY HIS PAST - OSCAR WILDE

6. IF YOU WANT REAL PEACE DON'T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS, TALK WITH YOUR ENEMIES - MOTHER THERESA

7. WINNING DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN BEING FIRST, WINNING MEANS YOU'RE DOING BETTER THAN YOU'VE DONE BEFORE - BONNIE BLAIR

8. EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE THINKS OF CHANGING HIMSELF - LEO TOLSTOY

9. I WILL NOT SAY I FAILED 1000 TIMES, I WILL SAY THAT I DISCOVERED
THERE ARE 1000 WAYS THAT CAN CAUSE FAILURE -THOMAS EDISON

10. BELIEVING EVERYBODY IS DANGEROUS; BELIEVING NOBODY IS VERY DANGEROUS - ABRAHAM LINCOLN

11. LOVE YOUR JOB BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN IT STOPS LOVING YOU ... - ABDUL KALAM

12. IF SOMEONE FEELS THAT THEY HAD NEVER MADE A MISTAKE IN THEIR LIFE, THEN IT MEANS THEY HAD NEVER TRIED A NEW THING IN THEIR LIFE - EINSTEIN

13. NEVER BREAK FOUR THINGS IN YOUR LIFE TRUST, PROMISE, RELATION, HEART BECAUSE WHEN THEY BREAK THEY DON'T MAKE NOISE BUT PAINS A LOT- CHARLES

14. IF YOU START JUDGING PEOPLE YOU WILL BE HAVING NO TIME TO LOVE THEM - MOTHER THERESA