Archives for August 2008

What you seem to be, be really.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become…Become the change you want to see – those are words I live by.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious—the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
—Colin Wilson (British Philosopher)

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
—Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

It’s up to each of us alone to figure out who we are, who we are not, and to act more or less consistently with those conclusions.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

Freedom, after all, is simply being able to live with the consequences of your decisions.
—James X. Mullen

If you care about something, you have to protect it—if you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
—John Irving

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.
—Francis Kelley

All great ideas are dangerous.
—Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet)

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
—Buckminster Fuller (American Inventor, Philosopher)

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
—Anne Bradstreet (English Poet)

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modem world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

Memories are tucked away, but not forgotten.
—Anonymous

October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
—Mark Twain (American Humorist)

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

To change one’s life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
—William James (American Philosopher)

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than youever dreamed yourself to be.
—Patanjali (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

One man all by himself is nothing. Two people who belong together make a world.
—Hans Margolius

There is nothing more frightening than a bustling ignorance.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can’t control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.
—Rudy Giuliani (American Politician)

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
—Unknown

If there is righteousness in the heart|There will be beauty in the character;|If there is beauty in the character|There will be harmony in the home;|When there is harmony in the home|There will be order in the nation;|When there is order in the nation|There will be peace in the world.
—Sathya Sai Baba (Indian Hindu Religious Leader)

Hear my words that I might teach you,|Take my arms that I might reach you.
—Simon & Garfunkel

A bamboo tree grows six inches in the first nineteen years and twenty feet in its twentieth year. The best time to plant a bamboo tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
—Chinese Proverb

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
—Yogi Berra (American Sportsperson)

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

The wise devote themselves to the welfare of all, for they see themselves in all.
—The Upanishads

Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the Gods.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

The man who works need never be a problem to anyone. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.
—John Wicker

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
—Jesse Jackson (American Baptist Civil Rights Activist)

Neither piety, virtue, nor liberty can long flourish in a community where the education of youth is neglected.
—Peter Cooper

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
—Buddhist Teaching

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
—Robert Burns (Scottish Poet)

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question.
—Terri Guillemets

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian Philosopher)

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
—Sun Tzu (Chinese Military Leader)

Wit is educated insolence.
—Aristotle (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Dream is not what you see in sleep, dream is the thing which does not let you sleep.
—Anonymous

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

The Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony. 3. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
—Muhammad Ali (American Sportsperson)

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
—Anonymous

Living each moment to its absolute fullest is perhaps the only justification you have for receiving this incredible gift called life.
—Unknown

Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
—George Burns

Face the brutes. That is a lesson for all life—face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.
—Gladys Taber

Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
—Arthur Eddington (English Astrophysicist)