Archives for February 2010

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other.
— M. C. Richards

So it’s probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
— Chris LeDoux

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
— James Harvey Robinson

We are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it is possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
— Samuel Johnson

If you can dream it, you can do it.
— Walt Disney

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
— Rabindranath Tagore

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
— Benjamin Franklin

Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul…
— Martin Luther

Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch in a railroad track… an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
— Henry Ward Beecher

Be true when you are tempted, be true when you don’t want to be, be true when it means standing alone from the rest of the world.
— Ruth B. Wright

Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Hindu Polymath)

If you have nothing else to do, look at yourself and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.
—George Madison Adams (American Politician)

I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
—John Wooden (American Sportsperson)

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
—Sophocles (Ancient Greek Dramatist)

A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.
—Smiley Blanton

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
—Catherine Ponder

No one has yet calculated how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up with their courage.
—Athenaeus

Every dawn signs a new contract with existence.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher)

The company of the distinguished, fetches respect even to the unworthy. Because of its association with flowers (in a garland), the thread is also worn on head.
—Subhashita Manjari

It may be possible to forcibly snatch a jewel from the midst of powerful jaws of a crocodile. It may also be possible to cross a raging sea swimming across its high-running violent waves. One may even wear a furious snake around his head as if it is a garland of flowers. But it is impossible to win over a conceited fool.
—Subhashita Manjari

Between Yes and No, lies mediocracy.
—Ligia Kasten

Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
—Benjamin Franklin (American Political leader)

Never do anything which you would not wish to do during the last hour of your life.
—J. P. Vaswani (Indian Hindu Philosopher)

Change always comes bearing gifts.
—Price Pritchett

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
—C. P. Snow

Believe in what you can do and be not deterred by what others say.
—Jacob Gelt Dekker

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
—Charles Baudelaire (French Poet)

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
—Rene Descartes (French Philosopher, Mathematician)

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.
—Socrates (Anceient Greek Philosopher)

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
—Benjamin Jowett

The spirit of man communes with Heaven;|the omnipotence of Heaven resides in man.|Is the distance between Heaven and man very great?
—Hong Zicheng

There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody know some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
—Earl of Chesterfield

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer (Polish-born American Children’s Books Writer)

Eventually, we all need to be willing to face the deepest, darkest beliefs we have about ourselves. Only in this way can we come to know that they are only beliefs, and not the truth about who we are.
—Ezra Bayda

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
—Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
—Armand Hammer

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must needs do something.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (American Sociologist)

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
—Thucydides

A friend is there before you know it, to lend a hand before you ask it, and give you love just when you need it most.
—Unknown

Commerce is a game of skill, which every man cannot play, which few men can play well. The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call commonsense; a man of strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune; and so, in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this, and believe in magic, in all parts of life. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent-for every effect a perfect cause-and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
—Helen Keller (American Author)