The question is not to know the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader)
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
—Otto von Bismarck (Prussian German- Political leader)
Like breeds like.
—Common Proverb
Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
There is no destiny beyond and above ourselves; we are ourselves the architects of our future.
—Swami Chinmayananda (Indian Hindu Teacher)
There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland (American Novelist)
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
—Smiley Blanton
Bad salespeople talk your ear off. Good salespeople know to shut up and listen.
—Ben Casnocha (American Entrepreneur, Investor)
I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
—Socrates (Anceient Greek Philosopher)
Close scrutiny will show that most “crisis situations” are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
—Maxwell Maltz (American Surgeon)
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
—Marilyn Ferguson (American Author)
It takes a great man to make a good listener.
—Arthur Helps (English Dramatist)
If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
—Helen Keller (American Author)
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.
—John W. Gardner (American Government Official)
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
—Alfred Adler (Austrian Psychologist)
Every dog has his day.
—Common Proverb