Archives for September 2006

Real solutions are discovered only where they actually exist within the individual’s own essence.
—Vernon Howard

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (English Poet)

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
—Mack R. Douglas

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
—Beverly Sills (American Singer)

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
—Bessie Anderson Stanley (American Poet)

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
—Steve Young

Public sentiment will come to be, that the man who dies rich dies disgraced.
—Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

Dreams
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
—Langston Hughes (American Novelist)

Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)

If you know something, it is in your head. When you believe something, it is in your heart.
—Unknown

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: “What are you doing for others?”
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (American Civil Rights Leader)

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.
—Robert Brault

Enjoyment is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
—Paul Goodman

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
—Unknown

I am never a failure until I begin blaming others.
—Anonymous

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are.
—Max De Pree (American Businessman)

People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)

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 events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!”
—William Hutchinson Murray

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)

Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

I think and think, for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

A positive attitude is like a fire: unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out.
—Alexander Lockheart

Originality is not doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.
—Marie Chapian (American Children’s Books Writer)

Corporations will take 90% less ability for 10% more attitude every day of the week.
—Mark Horstman

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
—Amos Bronson Alcott (American Teacher)

There is no baser folly than the infatuation that looks upon the transient as if it were everlasting.
—Thirukkural

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.
—Unknown

Look behind the clouds. You will always find the stars.
—Evelyn Loeb

For one word a man is deemed wise and for one word he is deemed foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.
—Confucius (Chinese Philosopher)

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
—Moroccan Proverb

It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.
—Eric Lindros

If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
—Eric Shinseki (American Military Leader)