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December 13, 2005
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. – Leo
Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and
Human Relationships
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in
anxiety. – Aesop, 620-560 B.C., Greek Fable Author
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of
necessary. – Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist and Short Story
Writer
December 6, 2005
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world
owes you nothing. It was hëre first. – Mark Twain, 1835-1910,
American Writer and Humorist
I would prefer even to fail with honor than wïn by cheating. –
Sophocles, 496-406 B.C., Greek Tragic Dramatist
There are three constants in life... change, choice and
principles. – Stephen R. Covey, American Speaker/Trainer/Author
of "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
November 29, 2005
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. –
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894, American Author and Poet
If you don't program yourself, life will program you! – Les
Brown, American Speaker/Author/Motivator
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. – Tony
Robbins, American Author/Speaker/Peak Performänce Expert
November 22, 2005
The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew
that they were wrong. – David Letterman, American Talk Show
Host/Comedian/Television Producer
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the
value of life. – Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, English Naturalist
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away
from you. – B.B. King, American Blues Guitarist and Songwriter
November 15, 2005
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of
none. – Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, Scottish
Author/Essayist/Historian
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel
Carson, 1907-1964, American Biologist/Ecologist/Author
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. –
Chinese Proverb
November 8, 2005
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. – Greek Proverb
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
– William Jennings Bryan, 1860-1925, American Lawyer and
Politician
It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning
wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from
the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner. – Jonas
Salk, 1914-1995, American Microbiologist
November 1, 2005
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. – H. Ross
Perot, American Businessman/Politician/Founder of Electronic
Data Systems
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy
godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would
be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Former First Lady
of the United States
The production of too many useful things results in too many
useless people. – Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German Political
Philosopher and Social Theorist
October 25, 2005
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world
together. – Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, 28th President of the
United States
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert. – B.C. Forbes,
1880-1954, Scottish-born Financial Journalist and Author
You can live a lifetïme and, at the end of it, know more about
other people than you know about yourself. – Beryl Markham,
1902-1986, English Aviator
October 18, 2005
Change before you have to. – Jack Welch, American Businessman
and Former CEO of General Electric
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and
walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. –
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of
strength that will endure as long as life lasts. – Rachel
Carson, 1907-1964, American Biologist/Ecologist/Author
October 11, 2005
The marble not yet carved can hold the förm of every thought the
greatest artist has. – Michelangelo, 1474-1564, Italian
Renaissance Painter and Sculptor It's hard to lead a cavalry
charge if you think you look funny on a horse. – Adlai
Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Politician and Statesman The risk
of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. –
Maimonides, 1135-1204, Spanish-born Jewish
Rabbi/Physician/Philosopher
October 4, 2005
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope,
to love - and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad,
1857-1924, Polish Novelist and Short Story Writer
One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. – Source Unknown
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. – Pablo
Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish Artist
September 27, 2005
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. – Winston
Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman and Prime Minister
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For
no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E.V. Lucas, 1868-1938,
English Writer
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in
yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with
great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly
superior talent. – Sophia Loren, Italian-born Film Actress
September 20, 2005
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
it goes on. – Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American Poet
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat
but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he
steadily raises his level of aspiration. – Kurt Lewin,
1890-1947, German-born Psychologist
Defeat doesn't finish a man--quit does. A man is not finished
when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. – Richard M.
Nixon, 1913-1994, 37th President of the United States
September 13, 2005
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. – Henry
David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Essayist/Poet/Naturalist
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. –
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States
Nevër feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How
awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. –
Millicent Fenwick, 1910-1992, American Diplomat and
Congresswoman
September 7, 2005
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But
the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound
truth. – Niels Bohr, 1885-1962, Danish Physicist
One word frees us of all the weïght and pain of life: That word
is love. – Sophocles, 496-406 B.C., Greek Tragic Dramatist
It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines
greatness. – Edward Gardner, American Businessman and Founder of
Soft Sheen Products
August 30, 2005
There's no scarcity of opportunïty to make a living at what you
love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. –
Wayne Dyer, American Psychotherapist/Author/Lecturer
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord
Chesterfield, 1694-1773, British Statesman and Diplomat
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without
it. – Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973, American Novelist
August 23, 2005
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. – Ralph Waldo
Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open
one. – Malcolm S. Forbes, 1917-1990, American Publisher
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born
until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new
world is born. – Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French-born Author and
Diarist
August 16, 2005
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do
more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams,
1767-1848, 6th President of the United States
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. –
Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888, American Author
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. –
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, British Poet
August 9, 2005
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past
or present are certain to miss the future. – John F. Kennedy,
1917-1963, 35th President of the United States
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with
ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams,
1744-1818, Wïfe of United States President John Adams
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being
liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. – Peter
F. Drucker, American Management Consultant and Author
August 2, 2005
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you
to realize that you do have the time needed for just about
anything you choose to accomplish in life. – Bo Bennett,
American Businessman
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to
take the helm. – Henrik Ibsen, 1828-1906, Norwegian Playwright
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em,
"Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. –
Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United
States
July 26, 2005
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
– Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1895, Scottish
Essayist/Poet/Novelist
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning
windows or trying to write a masterpiece. – Nadia Boulanger,
1887-1979, French Music Conductor and Educator
July 19, 2005
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end
is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. – T.S.
Eliot, 1888-1965, American Poet/Dramatist/Literary Critic
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. –
Jonas Salk, 1914-1995, American Microbiologist It's not the load
that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. – Lena Horne,
American Singer and Actress
June 26, 2005
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1803-1882, American Poet and Essayist
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
– Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1895, Scottish
Essayist/Poet/Novelist
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning
windows or trying to write a masterpiece. – Nadia Boulanger,
1887-1979, French Music Conductor and Educator
June 21, 2005
Many an opp.ortunity is lost because a man is out looking for
four-leaf clovers. - Source Unknown
Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve
your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may n.ever
return, and you may remain in ignorance. - William Wirt,
1772-1834, American Politician
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true
is really true, there would be little hope of advance. - Orville
Wright, 1871-1948, American Co-Inventor of the first practical
aeroplane
June 14, 2005
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is
delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.
Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing
nothing, and being nothing. - Denis Waitley, American
Author/Speaker/Peak Performance Expert
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's
levels of aspiration and expectation. - Jack Nicklaus, American
Golfer
Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you
promise. - Harvey Mackay, American Businessman/Speaker/Author
June 7, 2005
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your
riches, but reveal to them their own. - Benjamin Disraeli,
1804-1881, British Statesman and Prime Minister
In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet
is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day
expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave
behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help
alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with. -
Brian
Tracy, American Trainer/Speaker/Author
Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too
much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something
to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career,
your spouse. - Dale Dauten, Nationally Syndicated Columnist and
Author
June 1, 2005
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's
not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've
had everything to do and you've done it! – Margaret Thatcher,
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or
what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what
you think about. – Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American Author and
Trainer
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming
away better and happier. – Mother Teresa, 1910-1997,
Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
May 24, 2005
The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution
to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson, American
Author and Lecturer on Spirituality
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of
strength. – Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, American
Preacher/Orator/Writer
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one
after another. – Walter Elliott, 1888-1958, Prominent British
Politician
May 17, 2005
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've
gotten lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American Author of “Life's
Little Instruction Book®” Series
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For
no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E.V. Lucas, 1868-1938,
British Journalist and Essayist
Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first
time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled
with glory. – Betty Smith, American Novelist
May 10, 2005
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors
we don't even remember leaving open. – Rose Lane, 1886-1968,
American Author and Journalist
Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing
how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely
optimistic. – The Zurich Axioms
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures
don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily.
But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their
purpose. – E.M. Gray
May 3, 2005
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you
will always find forgiveness. – Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850,
French Novelist
Whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love
more; and all good things are yours. – Swedish Proverb
There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma
Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political and Spiritual Leader
April 26, 2005
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't
turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through
it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan, Legendary American
Basketball Player
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would
not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't
be a door for anyone else. – Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987,
American Folklorist and Mythology Expert
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone
acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the
circuits of our highest potential. – Rusty Berkus, Writer/Author
April 19, 2005
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. – Dalai
Lama, Spiritual and Temporal Leader of the Tibetan People
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it
is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Marcus
Annaeus Seneca, 3 B.C. - 65 A.D., Roman
Philosopher/Dramatist/Statesman
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.
Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be
human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more
productive person. – David M. Burns
April 12, 2005
The rock that is an obstacle in the path of one person becomes a
stepping stone in the path of another. – Source Unknown
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must
outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in
Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the
slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether
you’re a lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better
be running. – Source Unknown
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it…Autograph
your work with excellence. – Source Unknown
April 5, 2005
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
– Lao Tzu, Chinese Taoist Philosopher
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay,
American Computer Scientist
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what
you can do with what there is. – Ernest Hemingway, 1898-1961,
American Writer
March 29, 2005
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. – David Carradine,
American Actor and Ex-Marine
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all
costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of
having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. – Thomas A.
Bennett
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. –
Alexander Woollcott, 1887-1943, American Columnist and Critic
March 22, 2005
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a
tree a long time ago. – Warren Buffett, American Investment
Entrepreneur
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving
but does not make any progress. – Alfred A. Montapert, American
Author
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments
when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done
things in the spirit of love. – Henry Drummond, 1786-1860,
British Banker, Politician, Religious Leader
March 15, 2005
That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the
nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has
increased. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and
use things, instead of using people and loving things. – Author
Unknown.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep
inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust,
sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk
curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that
reveals the human spirit. – E.E. Cummings, 1894-1962, American
Poet
March 8, 2005
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the
world is to act in accordance with your thinking. - Johann von
Goethe, 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well
and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, American
Poet, Essayist
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good
deed in a weary world. - William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, British
Poet, Playwright, Actor
March 1, 2005
The Power Of One - Author Unknown
One SONG can spark a moment
One FLOWER can wake the dream
One TREE can start a forest
One BIRD can herald spring
One SMILE begins a friendship
One HANDCLASP lifts a soul
One STAR can guide a ship at sea
One WORD can frame the goal
One VOTE can change a nation
One SUNBEAM lights a room
One CANDLE wipes out darkness
One LAUGH will conquer gloom
One STEP must start each journey
One WORD must start a prayer
One HOPE will raise our spirits
One TOUCH can show you care
One VOICE can speak with wisdom
One HEART can know what is true
One LIFE can make a difference
February 22, 2005
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built
the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic. -Anonymous
You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only
way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be
without.- From Gary Renard's book The Disappearance of the
Universe http://www.garyrenard.com/specialoffer.htm
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A
whole clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! -
Andrew Carnegie, 1835-1919, American Industrialist,
Philanthropist
February 14, 2005
I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I
am with
you. - Roy Croft, 1907-1973, Poet
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen
or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller,
1880-1968,
American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each
other, but
in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de
Saint-Exupery, 1900-1944, French Aviator and Writer
February 8, 2005
If there is no wind, row. – Latin Proverb
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the
game. – Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime
Minister
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When
progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who
believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are
forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly
can. – A. Lou Vickery
February 1, 2005
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of
gain, can we truly know what love means. - Leo Buscaglia,
1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and Human
Relationships
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of
getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and
appreciating what we do have. - Frederick Koenig
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any
goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a
parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all
blessings. -
Brian Tracy, American Author/Speaker/Businessman
January 25, 2005
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is
the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – James Allen,
1864-1912, British-born American Essayist and Author of “As a
Man Thinketh”
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything
is ready, we shall never begin. – Ivan Turgenev, 1818-1883,
Russian Author
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.
That is the point that must be reached. – Franz Kafka,
1883-1924, German Novelist and Short-Story Writer
January 18, 2005
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not
possible to find it elsewhere. -Agnes Repplier, 1858-1950,
American Author, Social Critic
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the
stronger the trees. -Williard Marriott, American Businessman,
Founder of Marriott Hotels
"It is an illusion to think that peace can be attained by
strength of arms, it can only be found within yourself by all
who are peaceful & defenseless." -Deepak Chopra, East-Indian-
American M.D., New Age Author, Lecturer
January 11, 2005
Take the attitude of a student. Never be too big to ask
questions. Never know too much to learn something new. - Og
Mandino, 1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious
triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with
those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt,
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking
that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they
have the first secret of success. - Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
January 4, 2005
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. - Stevie
Wonder 1950-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1819-1892, American Poet
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn
something from him. - Galileo, 1564-1642, Italian Physicist and
Astronomer
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