2615 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Ben Franklin The only way we can find peace in our own hearts... is by changing ourselves, not by changing the world. -- Ayya Khema The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is it's natural manure. -- Thomas Jefferson I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. -- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar It is necessary to have dreams big enough to not lose sight of them while one pursues them. -- William Faulkner The model is not to be copied, but to be realized. -- Robert Henri Every authentic work of art is a gift to the future. -- Albert Camus We work not only to produce, but to give value to time. -- Eugene Delacroix How strange it is that people can laugh at comedians who are dead and never give it a second thought. -- Moe Howard It is the historical prerogative of the tenor to be stupid, but you, sir have abused the privilege. -- Leonard Bernstein Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead The only way we can find peace in our own hearts... is by changing ourselves, not by changing the world. -- Ayya Khema Treat a man like your enemy and he will become your enemy. -- Jim McBee The wise learn many things from their enemies. -- Aristophanes In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. -- Anonymous Intelligence is never too dear. -- Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Elizabeth I Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind. -- Hamilton Mabie There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. -- General Douglas MacArthur In war there is no substitute for victory. -- General Douglas MacArthur Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. -- Ross MacDonald Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. -- Norman MacEwan It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Many a man’s tounge broke his nose. -- Seumus MacManus It isn’t the people you fire who make your life miserable, it’s the people you don’t. -- Harvey Mackay You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. -- Naguib Mahfouz Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -- Nelson Mandela Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed. You must constantly guard against the trap of falling into a routine of remaining busy with unimportant chores that will provide you with an excuse to avoid meaningful challenges or opportunities that could change your life for the better. Your hours are your most precious possession. This day is all you have. Waste not a minute. -- Og Mandino Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. -- Og Mandino The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. -- Fred A. Manske, Jr. We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. -- Orison Sweet Marden Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. -- Orison Sweet Marden The power to tax involves the power to destroy. -- John Marshall Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare. -- Harriet Martineau A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. -- John C. Maxwell A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. -- John C. Maxwell Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. -- John C. Maxwell A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. -- John C. Maxwell People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. -- John C. Maxwell Learn to say “no” to the good so you can say “yes” to the best. -- John C. Maxwell Leadership is influence. -- John C. Maxwell The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it not without doubt but in spite of doubt. -- Rollo May Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it. -- Mark McClinchie The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. -- David McIntosh Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking. -- Tim McMahon Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. -- Mignon McLaughlin The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. -- Menander If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. -- H.L. Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. -- H. L. Mencken No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. -- H. L. Mencken Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H.L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H.L. Mencken Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- Henry Louis Mencken It is certainly sordid to do the wrong thing, and anyone can do the right thing when there is no danger attached; what distinguishes the good man from others is that when danger is involved he still does right. -- Metellus Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. -- Michelangelo Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. -- James A. Michener The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. -- Stanley Milgram The road to success is always under construction. -- Jim Miller Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner A man's treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character... how he makes it and how he spends it. -- James Moffatt The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. -- Roy E. Moody To know one thing, you must know the opposite. -- Henry Moore Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. -- Rick Moranis An enterprise culture is one in which every individual understands that the world does not owe him or her a living. -- Peter Morgan Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good. -- Daniel Moynihan The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. -- Daniel Moynihan Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions. -- James X. Mullen A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. -- H. H. Munro I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -- Ralph Nader The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing. -- Gamel Nasser Of those who say nothing, few are silent. -- Thomas Neill I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. -- Lord Nelson Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -- Ron Nesen Par is whatever I say it is. I’ve got one hole that’s a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker. -- Willie Nelson People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it. -- Howard W. Newton God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. -- Reinhold Niebuhr On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. --Friedrich Nietzsche The doer alone learneth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Plato was a bore. -- Friedrich Nietzsche We become what we think about. -- Earl Nightingale A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. -- Chester Nimitz Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us. -- Leonard Nimoy Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. --Richard M. Nixon I would have made a good pope. -- Richard Nixon If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. -- Alfred Nobel Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. -- Roger von Oech First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround youself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it. -- David Ogilvy Make sure you have a Vice President in charge of Revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues. -- David Ogilvy To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you’re in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big. -- Aristotle Onassis If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. -- Aristotle Onassis Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. -- Robert Orben The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare..." It doesn't say "guarantee the general welfare." And it certainly doesn't say "give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV. -- P.J. O'Rourke Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. -- P.J. O’Rourke A little Government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them. -- P.J. O’Rourke Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. -- P. J. O'Rourke Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. -- Frank Outlaw When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. -- Patrick Overton Character is much easier kept than recovered. -- Thomas Paine Work expands so as to fill the time avaliable for its completion. -- C. Northcote Parkinson The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Ellen Parr It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. -- Blaise Pascal Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity. -- Louis Pasteur The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself. -- Sir Alexander Paterson If rascals knew how much money they could make by being honest, they would become honest from just sheer rascality. -- General George S. Patton Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- General George S. Patton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climps but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. -- General George S. Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. -- General George S. Patton Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time. -- General George S. Patton Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. -- General George S. Patton Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. -- General George S. Patton Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. -- General George S. Patton If a man does his best, what else is there? -- General George S. Patton A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. -- General George S. Patton Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity. -- Pope John Paul II The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. -- Pope John Paul II The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. -- Linus Pauling Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. -- Neil Peart One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. -- Jack Penn Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk. -- J.C. Penney Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average person, you are just not cut out for positions at the top. -- J.C. Penney I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner. -- J.C. Penney Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become righer, our judgement better, and our world is more right. It is not love that is blind, it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualites of people. -- Charles H. Percy After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. -- Alfred Edward Perlman Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch. -- H. Ross Perot If you see a snake, just kill it. Don’t appoint a committee on snakes. -- H. Ross Perot Eagles don’t flock - you have to find them one at a time. -- H. Ross Perot If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. -- Thomas Peters The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. -- Thomas Peters When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky. -- Pablo Picasso I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -- Pablo Picasso Necessity is the mother of invention. -- Plato Life must be lived as play. -- Plato The harder you work, the luckier you get. -- Gary Player Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard When rumors increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamor, believe the second report. -- Alexander Pope The public is a fool. -- Alexander Pope There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. -- Colin Powell They talk most who have the least to say. -- Mathew Prior I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. -- Gilda Radner America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to “the common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. -- Ayn Rand The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. -- Ayn Rand The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. -- Lady Reading How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -- Ronald Reagan Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. -- Ronald Reagan Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. Marines don’t have that problem. -- Ronald Reagan You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans. -- Ronald Reagan People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. -- Agnes Repplier When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened. -- John M. Richardson, Jr. Sleep, riches and health; to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted. -- Jean Paul Richter Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience. -- Admiral Hyman Rickover Live the questions. -- Rilke Luck is the residue of design. -- Branch Rickey Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. -- Cavett Robert Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough. -- Wess Roberts If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. -- Dennis Roch If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it; every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. -- John D. Rockefeller III I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in. -- Anita Roddick If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. -- Anita Roddick When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson. -- John Roger I don’t make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers Never let yesterday use up too much of today. -- Will Rogers In order simply to survive in life, let alone be a leader, you must learn to take responsibility for the way things affect you. At the same time, you must learn to bend with the wind of forces too great for your control. -- Jim Rohn For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. -- Jim Rohn No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts, nor the person who points out how the strong person stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; whose face is actually marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasm and great devotions, whose life is spent in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and at worst, if failure wins out, it at least wins with greatness, so that this person’s place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. -- Theodore Roosevelt The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. -- Theodore Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. -- Theodore Roosevelt Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. -- Theodore Roosevelt People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir. -- Martin Routh Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society. -- Richard Royster Difficulty is a measure of effort, not of impossibility. -- Alistair Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -- Bertrand Russell Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. -- Bertrand Russell The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. -- David Russell Pray to God but continue to row to shore. --Russian Proverb Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -- Jim Ryuh A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -- Marilyn vos Savant Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. -- Robert H. Schuller Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don’t know how to quit. -- Robert H. Schuller Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible. -- Robert H. Schuller Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. -- Robert H. Schuller Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. -- Carl Schurz I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. -- Charles M. Schwab A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -- Charles M. Schwab Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. --Albert Schweitzer Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the only thing. -- Albert Schweitzer Fools look to tomorrow. Wise men use tonight. -- Scottish Proverb I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the character of an organization. -- John Sculley The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition. -- Nick Seitz You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. -- Kathy Seligman It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. -- Seneca Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. -- William Shakespeare This above all: to thine own self be true. -- William Shakespeare No legacy is so rich as honesty. -- William Shakespeare Brevity is the soul of wit. -- William Shakespeare If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. -- George Bernard Shaw Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. -- George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -- George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. -- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. -- George Bernard Shaw Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. -- George Bernard Shaw When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes. -- John Shedd Top management must know how good or bad employees’ working conditions are. They must eat in the employees’ restaurants, see whether the food is well cooked, visit the washroom and lavatories. If they are not good enough for those in charge they are not good enough for anyone. -- Lord Sieff There is only one principle of war and that’s this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain’t lookin’. -- Sir William Slim The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. -- Adam Smith Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. -- Betty Smith Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged. -- Fredrick Smith Never accept failure, no matter how often it visits you. Keep on going. Never give up. Never. -- Michael Smurfit In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. -- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut Being cheerful keeps you healthy. -- King Solomon If you are never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. -- Julia Sorel Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year. -- Spanish Proverb Decisions determine destiny. -- Frederick Speakman Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork. -- Willie Stargell The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. -- George Stephanopolous Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute. -- Patrick Stewart There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. -- W. Clement Stone No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. -- J. Michael Straczynski People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. -- J. Michael Straczynski Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Muriel Strode Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. -- Joseph Sugarman When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. -- Kathleen A. Sutton People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under. -- Charles Swindoll The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. -- Charles Swindoll I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. -- Charles R. Swindoll It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. -- Sandra Swinney It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. -- Publiius Syrus Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgi Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. -- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If you judge poeple, you have no time to love them. -- Mother Teresa Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. -- Margaret Thatcher You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. -- Margaret Thatcher Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. -- Joe Theismann Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. -- Clarence Thomas I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. -- Clarence Thomas If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -- Henry David Thoreau In the long run, you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fall immediately, you had better aim at something high. -- Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. -- Henry David Thoreau That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. -- James Thurber Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. -- Alexis De Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. -- Alexis De Tocqueville You've got to think about “big things” while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. -- Alvin Toffler Nietzche was stupid and abnormal. -- Leo Tolstoy When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people’s excuse for failure. -- Robert Townsend I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. -- Henry Truman I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. -- Harry S. Truman It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry S. Truman Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman If you can't convince them, confuse them. -- Harry S. Truman The "C" students run the world. -- Harry S. Truman Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. -- Martin Fraquhar Tupper No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. -- Turkish proverb I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. -- Donald Trump The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first requisite of progress. Those who believe they have "arrived" believe they have nowhere to go. Some not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid. -- Dale Turner When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in seven years. -- Mark Twain Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -- Mark Twain Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. -- Mark Twain Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. -- Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. -- Mark Twain Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. -- Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Mark Twain The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. -- Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. -- Mark Twain There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress. -- Mark Twain Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. -- Mark Twain Truth is our most valuable commodity - let us economize. -- Mark Twain Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. -- Mark Twain Don't let school interfere with your education. -- Mark Twain Necessity is the mother of taking chances. -- Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate; he attacks when it is abundant. -- Sun Tzu Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu Superior leaders get things done with very little motion. They impart instruction not through many words, but through a few deeds. They keep informed about everything but interfere hardly at all. They are catalysts, and though things would never get done as well if they weren’t there, when they succeed they take no credit. And because they take no credit, credit never leaves them. -- Lao Tzu Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. -- John Updike Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one, and they all stink. -- US Marine Proverb It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission. -- US Marine Proverb Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars. -- Henry Van Dyke It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. -- Vincent Van Gogh Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. -- Vincent Van Gogh It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity. -- Arthur H. Vandenberg It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. -- Voltaire Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous. -- Voltaire Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. -- Sam Walton High expectations are the key to everything. -- Sam Walton Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed. -- Booker T. Washington To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him. -- Booker T. Washington Character is power. -- Booker T. Washington Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. -- George Washington I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests. -- George Washington The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. -- Martha Washington Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience? -- Thomas J. Watson All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. --Thomas J. Watson Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. -- Thomas J. Watson If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. -- Thomas J. Watson Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking. -- J.C. Watts Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. -- John Wayne It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. -- Earl Weaver It is a wasted day unless you have learned something new and made someone smile. -- Mark Weingartz Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. -- John Wesley Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. -- Katherine Whitehorn Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. -- Mae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. -- Mae West Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. -- Dennis Wholey A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world. -- Oscar Wilde The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. -- Oscar Wilde I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. -- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. -- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. -- Oscar Wilde The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. -- George Will Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion, it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him. -- Ben Ames Williams Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else. -- Tennessee Williams History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they’ve managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic. -- Walter Williams Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. -- John Wooden You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. -- John Wooden It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit. -- John Wooden It is what you learn after you know it all that counts. -- John Wooden The thing you really believe in always happens... and the belief in a thing makes it happen. -- Frank Lloyd Wright Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yeats It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. -- Boris Yeltsin Do, or do not. There is no "try." -- Yoda It isn’t the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. -- F.M. Young It is not the crook in modern business we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing. -- Owen D. Young You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -- Frank Zappa I'll sleep when I'm dead. -- Warren Zevon Nothing can stop people with the right mental attitude from achieving their goals; nothing on earth can help those with the wrong mental attitude. -- W. W. Zieg Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph known to man. -- Zig Ziglar You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. -- Zig Ziglar The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. -- Zig Ziglar You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. -- Zig Ziglar When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. -- Zig Ziglar Those who say it can’t be done are usually interupted by others doing it. -- Zig Ziglar Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. -- Zig Ziglar If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost. -- Zig Ziglar Remember that failure is an event, not a person. -- Zig Ziglar Opportunity lies in the man and not in the job. -- Zig Ziglar To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. -- Robert Copeland Happiness, wealth, and success are the by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goals themselves. -- John Condry A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. -- Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. -- Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -- Confucius When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. -- Confucius Never hate you enemies, it affects you judgment. -- Michael Corleone I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. -- E. Joseph Cossman In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. -- Norman Cousins While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. -- Stephen Covey The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt. -- Thomas Cowan Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas. -- George Crane Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgement will be surer since to remain constant at work will cause you to lose power of judgement. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen. -- Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. -- Leonardo Da Vinci If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think. -- Clarence Darrow Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. -- Charles A. Dana I enjoy pressure, can’t do without it. -- George Davies This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave. -- Elmer Davis Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. -- George Louis DeBuffon Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. -- Charles DeGaulle The graveyards are full of indispensable men. -- Charles DeGaulle No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. -- Agnes DeMille It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. -- W. Edwards Deming Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. -- Rene Descartes I think, therefore I am. -- Rene Descartes Economics is war pursued by other means. -- Raymond F. DeVoe Jr. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. -- Charles Dickens This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. -- Charles Dickens There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli The secret of success is constancy to purpose. -- Benjamin Disraeli Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. -- Walt Disney As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. -- Disraeli Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch. -- Steve Droke Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank. -- Peter Drucker Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. -- Peter Drucker Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. -- Peter F. Drucker A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. -- W.E.B. DuBois Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant Infinite patience brings immediate results. -- Wayne Dyer History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. -- Abba Eban His ignorance is encyclopedic. -- Abba Eban Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. I found five thousand ways how not to make a light bulb. -- Thomas A. Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. -- Thomas A. Edison Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. -- Thomas A. Edison Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. -- Thomas A. Edison If there is a way to do it better, find it. -- Thomas A. Edison He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. -- Tryon Edwards The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. -- Albert Einstein Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. -- Albert Einstein If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. -- Albert Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -- Albert Einstien Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. -- Albert Einstein If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulity lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their wayand let them have it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. -- Walter Elliott To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or redeemed social condition... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The reward of a thing well done is to have it done. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man I meet is in same way my superior. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Patience and fortitude conquer all things. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man is known by the books he reads. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. -- Epictetus War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -- Desiderius Erasmus There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. -- John Erskine Failing doesn’t make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does! -- Richard Exely The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do. -- Nan Fairbrother Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing. -- William Feather Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. -- William Feather Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? -- Jules Feiffer I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, “Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today.” But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years... If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. -- Jerry Della Femina Selling has to be the most exciting thing you can do with your clothes on. -- John Fenton The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. -- Richard Feynman What did you ask at school today? -- Richard Fenyman Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. -- W.C. Fields The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you sit down and don’t see a fish at the table, the fish is you. -- Ken Flaton Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth. -- Horace Fletcher History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They finally won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. Disappointments acted as a challenge. Don't let difficulties discourage you. -- B. C. Forbes The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. -- B.C. Forbes The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. -- B.C. Forbes Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are. -- Malcolm S. Forbes Contrary to the cliché, genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. -- Malcolm S. Forbes Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm S. Forbes My idea of social change is lots of tens and twenties. -- Malcolm S. Forbes There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. -- Henry Ford Asking ‘who ought to be the boss’ is like asking ‘who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?’ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. -- Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. -- Henry Ford Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. -- Henry Ford Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -- Henry Ford You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do. -- Henry Ford I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. -- Eugene Forsey An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. -- Anatole France Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. -- Brendan Francis I am responsible only to God and history. -- Francisco Franco The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? -- Benjamin Franklin They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. -- Benjamin Franklin A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. -- Benjamin Franklin In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. -- Benjamin Franklin Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. -- Benjamin Franklin Fish and visitors stink after three days. -- Benjamin Franklin Diligence is the mother of good luck. -- Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. -- Milton Friedman The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. -- Milton Friedman History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. -- Milton Friedman Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it. -- Erich Fromm Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence. -- Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -- Robert Frost The world is full of willing people; some wiling to work, the rest willing to let them. -- Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. -- Robert Frost By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. -- Buckminster Fuller It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. -- Millard Fuller I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -- Galileo Galilei There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -- Indira Gandhi Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. -- Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mahatma Gandhi Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. -- Mahatma Gandhi Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. -- John Kenneth Gabraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet. -- Michael J. Gelb Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part. -- Michael J. Gelb Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. -- Michael J. Gelb Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. -- Michael J. Gelb Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. -- Michael J. Gelb Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. -- Michael J. Gelb A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. -- Michael J. Gelb Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. -- David Lloyd George There is only one way to make a great deal of money and that is in a business of your own. -- Jean Paul Getty My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil. -- Jean Paul Getty Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -- Kahlil Gibran One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- André Gide Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. -- George Gilder The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. -- Jean Gieraudoux One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. -- Arnold Glasow The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. -- Arnold H. Glasow Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. -- Arthur Godfrey Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. -- King George V A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. -- Oliver Goldsmith If you see a bandwagon, it’s too late. -- Sir James Goldsmith Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. -- Baltasar Gracian The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain ordinary people. -- Senator Phil Gramm When you hire people who a smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. -- R. H. Grant No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. -- Harry Gray A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. -- Sidney Greenberg Unfortunately, regret is a part of human existance. To defeat it, you must confront your fears before the opportunity is lost. If you wait, the regret will eat away at you for the rest of your life. -- Clint Greenleaf Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you. -- Geof Greenleaf A man is measured by the size of things that anger him. -- Geof Greenleaf Good leaders must first become good servants. -- Robert Greenleaf A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. -- Greek Proverb You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. -- Wayne Gretzky Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. -- Gucci You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. -- Sacha Guitry The little I know, I owe to my ignorance. -- Sacha Guitry Creation of wealth is almost a duty because of the widespread benefits that flow from it. -- John Gunn You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. -- H.R. Haldeman There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognizeability. -- Robert Half Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought. -- Alexander Hamilton Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison. -- John Hardwick The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper It’s suprising how many persons go through life without even recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves. If your’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others. -- Sydney J. Harris We have not passed that subtile line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice--- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." -- Sydney J. Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. -- Sydney J. Harris When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” -- Sydney J. Harris In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. -- Paul Harvey If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. -- Coleman Hawking There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, “a new form of servitude.” -- F.A. Hayek We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice. -- F.A. Hayek Integrity is when what you say, what you do, what you think, and who you ARE all come from the same place. -- Madelyn Griffith-Haynie Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others. -- William Hazlitt Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. -- William Hazlitt If you do anything just for the money, you don’t succeed. -- Barry Hearn We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. -- Heraclitus The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. -- Don Herold Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential -- Howard Hendricks Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, bu they don’t quit. -- Conrad Hilton If you don't ask "why this?" often enough, somebody will ask "why you?" -- Tom Hirshfield The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. -- Adolf Hitler Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. -- Adolf Hitler The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. -- Adolf Hitler What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Strength lies not in defense but in attack. -- Adolf Hitler Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. -- Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. -- Adolf Hitler We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. -- Eric Hoffer You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -- Eric Hoffer There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. -- John Andrew Holmes Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. -- Lou Holtz Many people dream of success. To me success can only be achieved through repeated faliure and I ntrospection. In fact, success represents 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure. -- Soichiro Honda You manage things; you lead people. -- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USN One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. -- Elbert Green Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one. -- Elbert Green Hubbard He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. -- Elbert Green Hubbard Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Green Hubbard To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -- Elbert Green Hubbard There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -- Victor Hugo The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. -- Robert Hutchins The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. -- Aldous Huxley There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. -- Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. -- Lee Iacocca You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. -- Irish Proverb Don't tell me why you can't, tell me how you can. -- Robert G. Ivanco Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. -- Andrew Jackson One man with courage makes a majority. -- Andrew Jackson There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. -- Randall Jacobs Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. -- William James Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. -- William James The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. -- William James When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there. -- Japanese Proverb I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution. I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our government; I mean an additional article taking from the Federal Government the power of borrowing. I now deny their power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. I know that to pay all proper expenses within the year would, in case of war, be hard on us. But not so hard as ten wars instead of one. For wars could be reduced in that proportion; besides that the State governments would be free to lend their credit in borrowing quotas. --Thomas Jefferson I place economy among the first and important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. --Thomas Jefferson Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servility crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. -- Thomas Jefferson I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all. -- Thomas Jefferson We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. -- Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale. -- Thomas Jefferson It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. -- Thomas Jefferson I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, to many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. -- Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. -- Thomas Jefferson A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. -- Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. --Thomas Jefferson That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. --Thomas Jefferson When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred. -- Thomas Jefferson Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail. -- Thomas Jefferson Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. -- Thomas Jefferson Be polite to all, but intimate with few. -- Thomas Jefferson I cannot live without books. -- Thomas Jefferson It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. -- Jerome K. Jerome Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -- Samuel Johnson The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them. -- Donald P. Jones Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates. -- W. Alton Jones Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. -- Erica Jong Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -- Erica Jong You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got -- your everything. -- Duke P. Kahanamoku Business is like sex. When it is good, it’s very, very good; when it’s not so good, it’s still good. -- George Katona Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. -- Herbert Kaufman The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -- Alan Kay Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. -- Bil Keane I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. -- John Keats Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. -- Garrison Keillor I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do. -- Helen Keller Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. -- Helen Keller The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -- Donald Kendall When written in Chineese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. -- John F. Kennedy Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. -- John F. Kennedy Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. -- Marilyn Moats Kennedy Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. -- Robert F. Kennedy Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -- Robert F. Kennedy Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. -- Charles F. Kettering You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere. -- Charles Kettering An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. -- Charles Kettering The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution. -- Charles Kettering People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. -- Charles Kettering It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. -- Charles Kettering In the long run we are all dead. -- John Maynard Keynes Procrastination is opportunity’s natural assassin. -- Victor Kiam People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Don't knock your competitors. By boosting others you will boost yourself. A little competition is a good thing and severe competition is a blessing. Thank God for competition. -- Jacob Kindleberger Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. -- Martin L. King, Jr. If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. -- Martin Luther King Jr. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. -- Michael Korda Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem. -- J. Krishnamurti People need religion. It’s a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. -- Irving Kristol Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. -- Irving Kristol You’re only as good as the people you hire. -- Ray Kroc Getting ideas is like shaving: if you don't do it every day, you're a bum. -- Alex Kroll Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder. --Nikita Krushchev Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. -- Charles Kuralt Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. --Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it. -- Ann Landers We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. -- La Rochefourauld Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible. -- Doug Larson Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. -- Doug Larson When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money. And the person with money will get some experience. -- Leonard Lauder To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work. -- Sister Mary Lauretta People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. -- Robert Keith Leavitt The one thing that doesnÕt abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it. -- Robert E. Lee Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. -- Sam Levenson If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? -- Stephen Levine If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die? -- Charles Lindbergh Jr. When I’m ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two thirds of my time thinking about him and what he is going to say. -- Abraham Lincoln The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. -- Abraham Lincoln Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -- Abraham Lincoln You cannot escape the responsibility tommorow by evading it today. -- Abraham Lincoln Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -- Abraham Lincoln I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. -- Abraham Lincoln While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. -- Henry C. Link New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -- John Locke The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength , not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -- Vince Lombardi The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. -- Vince Lombardi Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. -- Vince Lombardi Winning is a habit. Unfortuantely, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Lazarus Long If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. -- Henry R. Luce There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants. -- Charles J.C. Lyall A house divided against itself cannot stand. -- Abraham Lincoln The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma. -- Abraham Lincoln You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the pepole all the time. -- Abraham Lincoln Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. -- Abraham Lincoln Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. -- Abraham Lincoln Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -- Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -- Abraham Lincoln He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -- Abraham Lincoln I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. -- Abraham Lincoln While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. -- Abraham Lincoln New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. -- Abraham Lincoln If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. -- Jay Leno If you truly want to understand something, try to change it. -- Kurt Lewin Always be a little unexpected. -- Oscar Wilde To be without desires, is to be content. If you do not wish to have something, you are content with what you have. And it always seems to me that, the more we don't desire something, the greater the chance of getting it, and all the more exciting. To be without desire, is to be simple. If life is simple, then life is not complicated!!! -- from the wisdom of Lao Tzu Many of us have not been informed of the simple fact that as we go deeper into the rat race we ultimately become the things that are acquired, owned, and consumed. -- Unknown Everybody eventually becomes who they are. -- Unknown Spend it while you can / Money's contraband / You can't take it with you when you go. -- Jimmy Buffett Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. -- Barbara Kingsolver If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it. Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. -- William Norris (1834-1896) Para venir a lo que no sabes, has de ir por donde no sabes. (To arrive at that which you know not, you must go by the way that you know not.) -- San Juan de la Cruz One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. -- A.A. Milne Tis a joy to be simple, tis a joy to be free, tis a joy to come down where we ought to be... -- excerpt from an old Shaker hymn titled "Simple Gifts" I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. -- Henry David Thoreau The more flesh, the more worms; the more possessions, the more worry. -- Rabbi Hillel True possission is proved only by giving; all you are unable to give possesses you. -- Andre Gide I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday's gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time. - Willie Nelson The more things you own, the more they own you. -- Pat Jim If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone. -- Willie Nelson We are what we repeatedly do. - Aristotle Don't be afraid to try something new. An amateur built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. -- Unknown A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein I spent money I didn't have, to buy things I didn't need, to impress people like. -- Unknown You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright When you have no debt and don't have a lavish lifestyle, you don't always have to earn a paycheck. Most people take their job way too seriously. Life is short and nobody ever went to their deathbed wishing they had spent more time at the office. -- Unknown There is nowhere to go. You are already there. -- Krishnamurti Follow your bliss. -- Joseph Campbell It's not hard to make a lot of money, if money is all you want. -- Citizen Kane Work to become, not to acquire. -- on a church sign All unhappiness is due to attachment. -- unknown Meaning is not something you stumble across, like an answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of the affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account. -- John Gardner I'm more weathly than John Rockefeller because I already have all the money I want. -- John Muir Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop pedalling. -- Claude Pepper The most important thing about having goals is having one. -- Geoffrey F. Abert A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. -- Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams There is a tendency among some businesspeople to criticize and belittle their competitors. This is a bad procedure. Praise them. Learn from them. There are times when you can cooperate with them to their advantage and to yours. Speak well of them and they will speak well of you. -- George Matthew Adams Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Quincy Adams I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. -- Scott Adams Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust. -- John Akers A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. -- Herm Albright If at first you don’t succeed, you’re running about average. -- M.H. Alderson I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. -- Fred Allen You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration. -- James Allen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best. -- Woody Allen Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. -- Woody Allen If everything's under control, you're going too slow. -- Mario Andretti There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself --- an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly. -- Antisthenes Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy. -- Aristotle We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Wit is educated insolence. -- Aristotle You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. -- Dick Armey Those who await not gifts from chance have conquered fate. -- Matthew Arnold If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right. -- Marykay Ash We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne. -- Marcus Aurelius The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. -- Roger Babson If things go wrong, don’t go with them. -- Roger Babson Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. -- Francis Bacon To spend too much time in studies is sloth. -- Francis Bacon Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. -- James Baldwin Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -- Honore de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime. -- Honore de Balzac Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now. -- P.T. Barnum Always be a little kinder than necessary. -- James M. Barrie Strength is a matter of the made-up mind. -- John Beecher When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the onewhich has opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. -- Betty Bender Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. -- Robert F. Bennett The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. -- Warren G. Bennis Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. -- Warren G. Bennis The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea. -- William Benton Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -- Henri Bergson Life is 10% what you make it, and 90% how you take it. -- Irving Berlin Happiness is good health and a bad memory. -- Ingrid Bergman Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Berlioz Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. --Yogi Berra Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. -- Yogi Berra It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Yogi Berra You can observe a lot by just watching. -- Yogi Berra We made too many wrong mistakes. -- Yogi Berra We have deep depth. -- Yogi Berra Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. -- Ambrose Bierce It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly. -- Josh Billings Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. -- Josh Billings On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength. -- Billy Bishop When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. -- Otto von Bismarck There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen’s rights and inadequate stress put upon his duties and responsibilities. -- Paxton Blair The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -- Kenneth Blanchard If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important. -- Arther Bloch Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. -- Block’s Murphy’s Law Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginings. -- Ralph Blum There are two kinds of truths: small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because its opposite is a falsehood. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth. -- Niels Bohr You are not thinking, you are merely being logical! -- Niels Bohr If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Derek Bok If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. -- Napoleon Bonaparte History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon Bonaparte A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Circumstances!?! I make circumstances. -- Napoleon Bonaparte In politics stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte A leader is a dealer in hope. -- Napoleon Bonaparte The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all. -- Edward de Bono Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow. -- Elias Boudinot You can't try to do things; you simply must do them. -- Ray Bradbury The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. -- F.H. Bradley Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -- General Omar Bradley Do your work. Not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing sake, that little more which is worth all the rest. And if you suffer as you must, and if you doubt as you must, do your work. Put your heart into it and the sky will clear. And then out of your very doubt and suffering will be born the supreme joy of life. -- Dean Briggs Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. -- Ashleigh Brilliant To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target. -- Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is. -- Ashleigh Brilliant I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks. -- Phillips Brooks Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillips Brooks Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, "making it", or success. -- Dr. Joyce Brothers Act as if it were impossible to fail. -- Dorothea Broude Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -- Henry Brougham A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: ‘I don’t blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I’d feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?’ These are magical, healing words, and you’ll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on thier side. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. If you are angry, why not try this. Write a letter. Pour out all of your feelings, describe your anger and disappointment. Don’t hold anything back. Then put the letter in a drawer. After two days, take it out and read it. Do you still want to send it? I’ve found that anger and pie crusts soften after two days. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. You either make dust or eat dust. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars. -- Les Brown The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. -- William Jennings Bryan Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- William Jennings Bryan No one can earn a million dollars honestly. -- William Jennings Bryan If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you. -- Paul "Bear" Bryant The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -- Pearl S. Buck I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. -- William F. Buckley Jr. The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house. -- William F. Buckley Jr. There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance. -- William F. Buckley Jr. Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Good order is the foundation of all things. -- Edmund Burke A child on the farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and thinks of home. -- Carl Burns Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person. -- Dr. David M. Burns Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -- George Burns You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. -- Charles Buxton Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. -- Lord Byron I came, I saw, I conquered. -- Julius Caesar Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. -- Michael Caine It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. -- Arthur Calwell I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. --Joseph Campbell Life is a sum of all your choices. -- Albert Camus Successful salesmanship is 90% preparation and 10% presentation. -- Bertrand R. Canfield It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. -- Eddie Cantor You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone I don't even know what street Canada is on. -- Al Capone Vote early and vote often. -- Al Capone No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. -- Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. -- Andrew Carnegie Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself. -- Tombstone of Andrew Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all. -- Dale Carnegie Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind. -- Dale Carnegie A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be. -- Rosalynn Carter The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse. -- Carlos Castaneda The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castoneda As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. -- Dick Cavett Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety. -- Viscount Cecil Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. -- Charles A. Cerami Learn and think imperially. -- Joseph Chamberlian It is better to wear out than to rust out. -- Richard Chamberland Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. -- Kyle Chandler The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. -- W. E. Channing What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. -- Charles Victor Cherbuliez The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. -- G.K. Chesterton Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. -- Chilton He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -- Chinese proverb If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. -- Chinese proverb The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. -- Chinese Proverb If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack. -- Winston Churchill "Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" And if you were my wife, I would drink it! -- Winston Churchill "You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk." Yes, Mrs. Braddock,I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober. -- Winston Churchill Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Sir Winston Churchill The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -- Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. -- Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -- Sir Winston Churchill Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -- Winston Churchill The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. -- Winston Churchill By swalloing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. -- Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. -- Winston Churchill Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. -- Winston Churchhill Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it. -- Winston Churchill The price of greatness is responsibility. -- Winston Churchill I like a man who grins when he fights. -- Winston Churchill Six mistakes mankind keeps making centruy after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refienment of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as well as we do. -- Cicero The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt. -- Cicero Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. -- Cicero We are slaves of the laws in order that we may be able to be free. -- Cicero The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. -- Von Clausewitz Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver. -- Mark A. Clement Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. -- Peter Cochrane Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. -- Samuel Coleridge Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it. -- Marva Collins Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. -- Calvin Coolidge No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge Simplify. . .once is enough. -- Anonymous Don't make your house a home. . .make it a HAPPENING! -- Anonymous Oh, Lord! Thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort. -- Leonardo da Vinci In life you will pay one of two prices: the price of discipline or the price of regret. and you'll find that on a scale, the price of discipline weighs ounces, the price of regret weighs tons! -- unknown Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, And dance like no one's watching. - unknown (maybe its source is a beer commerical. :-( ) If you want to change some things in your life, you have to change some things in your life. This is because "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. -- unknown Anywhere is walking distance if you have the time. -- Steven Wright The more content I am with myself, the fewer material things I need. -- Anonymous My goal should not be to have something but to be something. -- Anonymous The more secure you feel with yourself, the fewer faults you find in others. -- Anonymous No question is ever stupid if you're the one asking it. -- Anonymous A good way to save money is to be too busy to go shopping -- Anonymous Possession is nine tenths of the psychosis. -- Unknown It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety. -- Henry David Thoreau Don't choose your career, let your career choose you. -- unknown Live simply that others may simply live. -- Mohandas Gandhi Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man. -- Mohandas Gandhi It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the naked eye. -- The Little Prince by Antoine de Ste Exupery. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. -- Albert Einstein on Mohandas Gandhi The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive anyway. -- author unknown So we never live, but we hope to live - and as we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so. -- Pascal I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round/I really love to watch them roll/No longer riding on the merry go round/I just had to let it go. -- John Lennon We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and...Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones which should be their toys. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Where my caravan has rested, flowers I leave you on the grass. - Monica Dickens To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. This is my symphony. -- William Ellery Channing Act Now or Dream On. -- from an ad in the New York Times When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. -- Tao Te Ching Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans. -- John Lennon I am more and more inclined to reduce my baggage, to lop off superfluities. I become more and more in love with simple things and simple folk- a small house, a hut in the woods, a tent on the shore. The show and splendor of great houses, elaborate furnishings, stately halls, oppress me; impose upon me. They fix the attention on false values, they set up a false standard of beauty; they stand between me and the real feeders of character and thought. -- John Burroughs I realized my inmost cherished desires by defending them from my casual wishes. -- The Richest Man in Babylon Life is a journey, not a destination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you ask a question, and stop long enough to listen, the universe will answer. -- Jack Flanders He who desires naught will always be free. -- E. R. Lefebure To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two ways to be rich--make more or need less. - Rimo’s Rule Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can - No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. -- John Lennon Until now, life, this simple thing, has not been properly seen. One did not know that it was so simple and clear, that one merely needed to organize it and free it from all excess. to work for life, not for palaces or temples, cemeteries or museums. -- Aleksander Rodcenko Most of the mistakes I’ve made in my life have been when I said “yes”, and wanted to say “no”. -- Moss Hart The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -- Plato There’s no such thing as saving time, it’s all a matter of how you spend it. -- Jeff Oliverson To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. -- Francois Quesnay We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. -- Thich Nhat Hanh I buy my freedom with my frugality -- unknown Challenge yourself to advance as a person. -- unknown Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only dispensable, but hindrances to the elevation of mankind. -- Henry David Thoreau Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Einstein We are not interested in generals who win victories without bloodshed. The fact that slaughter is a horrifying pectacle must make us take war more seriously, but not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms." -- von Clusewitz Televangelist Oral Roberts married his wife decades ago, and they had a son they named Richard who became a televangelist like his father. Do you realize that Richards Roberts was conceived through Oral sex? -- Patrick Sullivan If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. -- Old Irish Saying Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -- Alexander Hamilton Variety is the very spice of life. -- William Cowper (1731 - 1800) People don't take trips - trips take people. -- John Steinbeck The timorous may stay at home. -- Justice Benjamin Cardozo "Bite the wax tadpole." -- "Coca-Cola" as originally translated into Chinese "Eat your fingers off" -- Kentucky Fried Chicken's "finger lickin' good" as originally translated into Chinese "It takes a virile man to make a chicken pregnant." -- Perdue chicken ad, as mistranslated in Mexico "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave." -- ad slogan "Pepsi Comes Alive" as originally translated into Chinese "Tiny male genitals" --"Pinto" in Brazilian slang. Ford renamed the Pinto "Corcel" - "Horse." ...all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" -- John Masefield ...On which side is discipline most rigorously enforced? ...In which army is there the greater constancy both in reward and punishment? By means of these considerations I can forecast victory or defeat. -- Sun Tzu - The Art of War A billion hours ago, human life appeared on earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity emerged. A billion Coca-Colas ago was yesterday morning. -- 1996 Coca-Cola Company annual report A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals. -- Ronnie Corbett A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five. -- Groucho Marx A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. -- Bruce Friedman A Computer Scientist Is Someone Who Fixes Things That Aren't Broken. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. -- Unknown A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. -- Anonymous A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. -- Anonymous A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. -- Frederick Douglas A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. -- Frederick Douglas A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. -- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. -- Barbarella A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too." -- Jake Johanson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -- Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965) A man is only as old as the woman he feels. -- Groucho Marx (1895-1977) A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake. -- Confucius A pessimist is an optimist with experience -- Anonymous A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. -- Miguel de Cervantes A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. -- Peter McArthur A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -- John A. Shedd A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. -- Evan Esar A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led. -- Alexander Cannon A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson First inaugural address, 1801 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. --Francis Bacon Abandon it. -- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) , on being asked how he would go about improving Pittsburgh About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. -- Doug Larson Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -- Benjamin Disraeli After the grand jury session, he (Vernon Jordan) told reporters that he answered the questions truthfully and to the best of his ability. Well, come on, which is it? -- David Letterman Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. -- Daniel Francois Esprit Auber All adventure is now reactionary. -- William F. Buckley, Jr. All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others. -- George Orwell - Animal Farm All men can see the tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. -- Sun Tzu - The Art of War All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. -- Anonymous All power corrupts, but we need electricity. -- Haythum R. Khalid All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height. -- Casey S