Some Quotations

Friday, March 23, 2012

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an
uncompleted task."

-- William James

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the
only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is
great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what
you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't
settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you
find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better
and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you
find it. Don't settle."

-- Steve Jobs

"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."

-- Edward Everett Hale

"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more
value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an
idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,
but a great deal in a few."

-- Pythagoras

"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece."

-- Ralph Charell

"If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't
talk about it, but do it. After you have done it, your friends
and enemies will talk about it."

-- George W. Blount

"Just one mental shift -- focusing on the abundance of your
environment--switches your psychological settings so that your
life automatically improves in many areas you may think are
unrelated. This is essentially a leap from fear to faith."

-- Martha Beck

"Hence it became evident that if man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small."

-- G.K. Chesterton

"There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

-- Denis Waitley

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."

-- Booker T. Washington

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."

-- Vance Havner

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!"

-- George Elliston

"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.'"

-- Marianne Williamson

"If you learn anything... please learn to ask for help. It is a sign of wisdom and strength."

-- David Skorton, Cornell University President

"Life is full of endless possibilities."

-- Mettrie L.

"Little by little, one walks far."

-- Peruvian Proverb

"Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."

-- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

"People will try to rain on your parade because they have no
parade of their own."

-- Jeffrey Gitomer

"Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what
remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good
ones."

-- Benjamin Franklin

"The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to
take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he
thinks as he lives."

-- Vaughan Quinn

"Winners take imperfect action while losers are still
perfecting the plan."

-- Tony Robbins

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste
experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without
fear for newer and richer experience."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Carry laughter with you wherever you go."

-- Hugh Sidey

"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality."

-- Anwar Sadat

"There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet."

-- William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."

--Author Unknown

"A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines
separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The
routine is exceptionally powerful."

-- Darren Hardy

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become
bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build
you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see
themselves."

-- Abraham Lincoln

"At 211 degrees, water is hot.
At 212 degrees, it boils.
And with boiling water, comes steam.
And steam can power a locomotive.
One extra degree...makes all the difference.
And, the one extra degree of effort in business and in life...separates the good from the great!"

-- SimpleTruths.com

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do
whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and
are willing to work with a power that is greater than
ourselves to do it."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those
you hold well."

-- Josh Billings

"Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all."

-- Brian Tracy

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

-- Marilyn Vos Savant

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