Archives for July 2011

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
—Francis Bacon (English Philosopher)

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
—Napoleon Hill (American Author)

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one’s own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one’s ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one’s subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.
—Carl Jung (Swiss Psychologist)

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Arise, transcend thyself. Thou art man and the whole nature of man is to become more than himself.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and live what you are doing.
—Brian Tracy (American Author)

When you affirm big, believe big, and pray big, big things happen.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
—Napoleon I (French Monarch)

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (American Author)

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: “we did it ourselves.”
—Laozi (Chinese Philosopher)

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
—Mother Teresa (Albanian Catholic Humanitarian)

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
—Henry Miller (American Novelist)

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
—Khalil Gibran (Lebanese-born American Philosopher)

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher)

A leader is best|When people barely know he exists,|When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,|They will say:|We did it ourselves.
—Laozi (Chinese Philosopher)

People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said, but, they will always remember how you made them feel.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
—Kurt Vonnegut (American Novelist)

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
—Socrates (Anceient Greek Philosopher)

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.
—Pablo Picasso (Spanish Painter)

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
—William James (American Philosopher)

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual good-will and affection.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
—Henri Frederic Amiel (Swiss Philosopher)

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.
—Mother Teresa (Albanian Catholic Humanitarian)

Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
—Malcolm Forbes (American Publisher)

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
—William Arthur Ward (American Author)

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
—Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
—Cicero (Roman Philosopher)

If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
—Tom Peters (American Management Consultant)

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)

Don’t take life too serious. You’ll never escape it alive anyway.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
—Pablo Picasso (Spanish Painter)

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows; he breathes, but does not live.
—Indian Proverb

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
—Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist)

Which of our methods of measuring could we apply to this eddying mass that is the universe? In the presence of the profundities our sole ability is to dream. Our conception, quickly winded, cannot follow creation, that vast breath.
—Victor Hugo (French Novelist)

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer (German Philosopher)

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel (Romanian-born American Writer)

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (American First Lady)

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift to himself.
—Mother Teresa (Albanian Catholic Humanitarian)

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
—Voltaire (French Philosopher)

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
—Wayne Dyer (American Motivational Writer)

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power flows to the man who knows how.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
—William James (American Philosopher)

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)