Dec 17, 2009

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain - Unknown

Oct 17, 2009

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. - Confucius

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. - Confucius

He who will not economize will have to agonize. - Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. - Confucius

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. - Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. - Confucius

“Prosperity tries the fortunate: adversity the great” - Rose F. Kennedy

“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.” - Francis Bacon

“When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.” - Confucius

Oct 3, 2009

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig - Proverb

If you lose your temper, you’ve lost the argument - Proverb

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century - Perelman

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day - Proverb

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness - Chinese Proverb

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake - Napoleon Bonaparte

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William Gibbs

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail - Abraham Maslow

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government - Edward Abbey

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

it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile - Adelaide Hasse

If everything is under control, you are going too slow - Mario Andretti

Destiny is not a matter of change, it is a matter of choice - William Jennings Bryan

Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’

Men are like steel. when they lose their temper, they lose their worth - Chuck Norris

Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

Happiness is good health and a bad memory - Ingrid Bergman

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there - Yogi Berra

For there is nothing either good or bad, thinking makes it so - William Shakespeare

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important - Bertrand Russell

If you can't convince them, confuse them - Harry S Truman

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full - Henry Kissinger

Sep 20, 2009

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply - Josh Billings

The years teach much which the days never know - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires - Abigail Van Buren

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment - Fred Brooks

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes - Oscar Wilde

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude - Ralph Marston

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children - George Bernard Shaw

We pay, when old, for the excesses of youth - J. B. Priestley

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young - Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The trick is growing up without growing old - Casey Stengel

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul - Samuel Ullman

Muscles come and go; flab lasts - Bill Vaughan

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair - Sam Ewing

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long - Pope Paul VI

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty - Henry Ford

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her - Agatha Christie

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter - Mark Twain

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity - Tom Stoppard

Age considers; youth ventures - Rabindranath Tagore

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place - Zora Neale Hurston

Have no fear of perfection , you'll never reach it - Salvador Dali

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way - Napoleon Hill

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds - Albert Einstein

We can do no great things, only small things with great love - Mother Teresa

Do first things first, and second things not at all - Peter Drucker

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage - Seneca

No wind favors he who has no destined port - Montaigne

Well done is better than well said - Benjamin Franklin

Inches make champions - Vincent Lombardi

Know thyself - Socrates

Sep 11, 2009

Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying - Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Gandhi

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else - Judy Garland

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle - Pluto

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience - Oliver Wendell Holmes

PAST - the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it - Rafikki to Simba in The Lion King

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted - Aesop

Never, never, never, never give up - Winston Churchill

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day - Benjamin Franklin

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience - Denis Waitley

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities - James A. Froude

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary - Margaret Cousins

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow - Unknown

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams - Ralph Waldo Emmerson

It's time to start living the life you've imagined - Henry James

I don't want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well - Diane Ackerman

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage - Anais Nin

Life is too short to be small - Benjamin Disraeli

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still - Linda Brakeall

Sep 10, 2009

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance - Gian Carlo Menotti

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations - Benjamin Disraeli

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up - Tom Wilson

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life - Sandra Carey

You have your ideology and I have mine - Kahlil Gibran

Never ruin an apology with an excuse - Kimberly Johnson

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present - Babatunde Olatunji

A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it - Unknown

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword - Charles Reade

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been - Mark Twain

A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks - Charles Gordy

Life is short but a smile takes barely a second - Cuban Proverb

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight - Phyllis Diller

Sep 6, 2009

The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist - Harold Wilkins

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn - Unknown

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often - Sir Winston Churchill

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go - Oscar Wilde

Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius

You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still - Chinese

Where there is love there is life - Mahatma Gandhi

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself - Chinese

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never - Charles Caleb Colton

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching - Unknown

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward - Soren Kierkegaard

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time - Chinese

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced - Soren Kierkegaard

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on - Robert Frost

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years - Abraham Lincoln

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have - Unknown

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow - Unknown

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