Archives for May 2013

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.
—Colin Powell (American Military Leader)

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
—Helen Keller (American Author)

Only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
—Jane Austen (English Novelist)

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
—Ronald Reagan (American Head of State)

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
—Stephen King (American Novelist)

One must be something, in order to do something.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach.
—Bertrand A. Russell (British Philosopher)

Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
—George Santayana (Spanish Philosopher)

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted—in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest—at the command—of his head.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Head of State)

It all comes down to this: if your subconscious “financial blueprint” is not “set’ for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
—T. Harv Eker (American Motivational Speaker)

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
—Virgil (Roman Poet)

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of a man.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Swiss Philosopher)

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.
—Sri Aurobindo (Indian Yogi, Nationalist)

Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping), spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration.
—Hans Taeger

We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those that we affect to have.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards highest perfection.
—Hans Taeger

Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body.
—Jane Austen (English Novelist)

The first essential, of course, is to know what you want.
—Robert Collier (American Self-Help Author)

Are you more likely to feel regret because of an action you take or because of inaction (something you do *not* do)?
—Ben Casnocha (American Entrepreneur, Investor)

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
—Maya Angelou (American Poet)

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
—William James (American Philosopher)

You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
—Warren Buffett (American Investor)

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
—Bill Gates (American Businessperson)

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
—John Milton (English Poet)

I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
—Will Rogers (American Actor)

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (English Poet)

People don’t understand the sort of fight it takes to record what you want, to record the way you want to record it.
—Billie Holiday

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (American Novelist)