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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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