Friday, June 22, 2007

Robert Frost


Education is the ability to listen to anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost

There are two levers for moving men, interest and fear. Napoleon

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas Edison

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Winston Churchill

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. Michael Jordan

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days you feel good. Jerry West

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. Thomas Watson

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. Wendell Phillips

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. Willie Shoemaker

Monday, June 18, 2007

Peace


When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. Jonas Salk

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold Glasgow

No man ever achieved worthwhile success who did not, at least one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging over the brink of failure. Napoleon Hill

No great man every complains for want of opportunity. R.W. Emerson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They give up at the 1-foot line. They give up at the last minute of the game 1 foot from a winning touchdown. Ross Perot

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. Tom Bradley

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose. Only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving, but does not make any progress. Alfred Montapert

Most of us can do more than we think we can, but we usually do less than we think we do. Unknown

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. Roger Bannister

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth. Maxwell Maltz

If you aren't going all the way, why go at all? Joe Namath

Friday, June 15, 2007

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~Mother Theresa

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ~G.B. Shawn

Nothing will work unless you do. ~John Wooden

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. ~Winston Churchill

All winding to a great place is by a winding stair. ~Francis Bacon

When you cease to dream, you cease to live. ~Malcom Forbes

Success if the maximum utilization of the ability that you have. ~Zig Ziglar

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ~Bela Karolyi

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese proverb

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. ~Daniele Vare

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ~Victor Borge

Language is a means of communicating experiences held in common and is, therefore, unsuitable for matters which are out of common. ~Unknown

What the power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it. ~Alexander Graham Bell

I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to grab and oar and row with them. ~Harold Geneen

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand ~Unknown

When all is done, there is a lot more said than done. ~Unknown

Those who speak do not know, while those who know do not speak. ~Lao Tsu

Leadership is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. ~Warren Bennis

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. ~John Ruskin





Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Quotes from "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell H. Conwell



Greatness consists not in holding some office; greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means, in the accomplishment of vast purposes from the
private ranks of life, that is true greatness.


The great inventors are simply great men; the greater the man the
more simple the man; and the more simple a machine, the
more valuable it is.


We must teach that men are great only on their intrinsic value, and
not on the position they may incidentally happen to occupy.


...he that can be a blessing to the community in which he lives tonight will be great anywhere,
but he who cannot be a blessing where he now lives will never be great anywhere on the face of God's earth.


He most lives who thinks most.




Saturday, June 2, 2007




Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly. JFK

Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur

Jealousy is not about what the other person is getting, its about what you're not getting. At its root, jealousy is the fear that you are going to lose something. Unknown


We must know what the world needs first and then invest
ourselves to supply that need, and success is almost certain. Russell H. Conwell

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Above all else, preparation is the key to success. Henry Ford

Act that your principal of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. John Steinbeck

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger, the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of danger - but recognize the opportunity. JFK

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astonish ourselves. Thomas Edison

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Napoleon Hill

We must create a life worthy of ourselves, and of the goals we only dimly perceive. Sakharov

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

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