Archives for July 2012

Riches go to that lion among men, who is industrious. Mean people say that wealth is to be given by fate. Overcome your destiny and put in best efforts by working hard. Who is there to blame if there is no accomplishment despite your efforts?
—Hitopadesha

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
—Charles Spurgeon (British Baptist Preacher)

If you always give, you will always have.
—Chinese Proverb

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

When peace is more valued than the entertainment of the insatiable ego, it will be discovered to be ever present and available.
—David R. Hawkins

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
—Chinese Proverb

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
—Abraham Lincoln (American Head of State)

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.
—David Hume (Scottish Philosopher, Historian)

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lives forever in debt to those who are kind.
—Malaysian Proverb

Luck is everything. … My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.
—Alfred Hitchcock (British-born American Film Director)

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven’t got the guts to make the climb.
—Cookie Lavagetto (American Sportsperson)

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
—Ray Bradbury (American Novelist)

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.
—Gordon B. Hinckley (American Mormon Religious Leader)

The key to compassion is that it is more fun. Generosity is more fun. The means to help others is doing it by having a good time.
—Robert Thurman (American Buddhist Scholar)

Do not let the future be held hostage by the past.
—Neal A. Maxwell (American Mormon Religious Leader)

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.
—Immanuel Kant (Prussian German Philosopher)

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.
—Joyce Carol Oates (American Novelist)

You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do.
—David Packard (American Businessperson)

Hope is not a form of guarantee; it’s a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
—John Berger (English Art Critic, Essayist, Novelist)

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
—Clint Eastwood (American Film Director)

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)

Conscience is the voice of values long and deeply infused into one’s sinew and blood.
—Elliot Richardson (American Lawyer)

I don’t dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.
—Steven Spielberg (American Film Director)

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
—Anatole France (French Novelist)

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
—Giovanni Ruffini

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.
—Ray Bradbury (American Novelist)

Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless.
—Turkish Proverb

We don’t have to let go, we simply have to not hold on.
—Joseph Goldstein (American Buddhist Teacher)

It’s important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
—Russell Simmons (American Entrepreneur)

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.
—Samuel Johnson (British Essayist)

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
—Thomas Edison (American Inventor)

With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
—Russian Proverb

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.
—Glenn Beck (American Mormon Children’s Books Writer)

The journey is the reward.
—Chinese Proverb

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)

The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.
—Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American Unitarian Minister)

Whether he’s is a child, an old person or a young man, whoever comes to your house should be received with respect. A guest deserves respect by everyone.
—Hitopadesha

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

At a distance from the theater of action, truth is not always related without embellishment.
—George Washington (American Head of State)

Winners do not let themselves succumb to anything. They distract themselves by immersing themselves in their most engaging work.
—Marty Nemko (American Career Coach, Author)

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
—George Washington (American Head of State)