Archives for July 2007

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
—Wayne Gretzky (Canadian Sportsperson)

Be this his praise, if praise be needed, as a father he succeeded.
—Edgar Guest (English-born American Poet)

Freedom to many means immediate betterment, as if by magic. Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my support will wane and my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino.
—Julius Nyerere

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,|My love as deep; the more I give to thee,|The more I have, for both are infinite.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)

Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)

A life without love is like a year without summer.
—Swedish Proverb

More children are punished for copying their parents, than for disobeying them. We should be what we want to see.
—Unknown

Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
—Ernest Hemingway (American Author)

You’ll never prove you’re too good for a job by not doing your best.
—Ethel Merman (American Actor)

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky (Canadian Sportsperson)

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.|The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;|Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;|Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear|The sound of wings.
—Amelia Earhart (American Aviator)

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them… they’ll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they’ll come back.
—J. W. Marriott, Jr. (American Businessperson)

Better is the enemy of good.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
—Hermann Hesse (German-born Swiss Poet)

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
—Beverly Sills (American Singer)

Fear and guilt are unpleasant bedfellows who disturb our sleep.
—Unknown

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that, I have complete control.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
—Earl Wilson

A friendship can weather most silly things and thrive in thin soil – but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
—Pam Brown

Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.
—Will Rogers (American Actor)

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
—Thaddeus Golas

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work – the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside – the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don’t show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within – that you don’t feel until it’s too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again. The first sort of breakage seems to happen quick – the second kind happens almost without your knowing it but is realized suddenly indeed. Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Novelist)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.
—Vernon Howard

What a luxury it is to spend time with old friends … talking, as old friends should talk, about nothing, about everything.
—Lillian Hellman (American Playwright)

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
—Kurt Vonnegut (American Novelist)

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
—Moliere (French Playwright)

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
—Buddhist Teaching

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (Roman Philosopher)

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
—Henry Clay (American Politician)

The question is not how many years are in your life, but how much life is in your years.
—Anonymous

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being.
—Moses Maimonides

Your children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Courage has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin it and the work is completed.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
—Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

It’s attitude, not aptitude, that affects your altitude.
—Unknown

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)

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
—Dale Carnegie (American Author)

If what you are doing is not moving you toward your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver (American Poet)

Make each day a Masterpiece.
—John Wooden (American Sportsperson)

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
—George Herbert (Welsh Anglican Poet)

Dreams don’t come true. Dreams are true.
—Anonymous

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst, remind you of your strengths when you feel weak.
—Erica Jong (American Novelist)

Life gives us tragedies and heartaches, but it also gives us reasons to celebrate, and we must not allow the tragedies to stop us celebrating the good times, but celebrate them all the more.
—Rudy Giuliani (American Politician)

Execution is the job of the business leader.
—Lawrence Bossidy

Nobody gives you power. You just take it.
—Unknown

The trouble with opportunity is that it only knocks. Temptation kicks the door in.
—Unknown

Always remember, look forwards not back, believing in making your dreams all come true. Always believe in the best you can be and have faith in the things that you do.
—Unknown

Some people think it’s holding on that
makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.
—Sylvia Robinson

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) (Roman Philosopher)