Archives for June 2011

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

One who never asks either knows everything or nothing.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.
—Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
—Will Rogers (American Actor)

Observe how soon, and to what a degree, a mother’s influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others!
—Lydia H. Sigourney

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.
—Epicurus (Ancient Greek Philosopher)

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.
—William Feather (American Publisher)

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
—Samuel Butler

No one can tell you what is right for you except yourself. So start telling yourself what to do. If you blunder for ten years while thinking for yourself, that is rich treasure when compared with living these ten years under the mental domination of another.
—Vernon Howard

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
—Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.
—Aesop (Greek Fabulist)

Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
—Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Hindu Polymath)

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
—Woodrow Wilson (American Head of State)

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

The perfect amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they would do nothing.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
—Richard Bach (American Novelist)

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
—Marcel Proust (French Novelist)

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
—Thomas Szasz (Hungarian Psychiatrist)

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
—William Feather (American Publisher)

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not endured with patient resignation.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
—Joseph Addison (English Essayist)

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
—Walt Disney (American Entrepreneur)

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we’re not wise enough to see it.
—Oprah Winfrey (American TV Personality)

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed.
—Emily Dickinson (American Poet)

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal, he is a living being.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher)

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
—William Blake (English Poet)

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
—Arabic Proverb

Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)