Thursday, March 8, 2012

quotes 5


"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
— Frederick Douglass
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain
""I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders."
— George P. Burnham
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but is has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."
— Helen Keller
"Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
— Leo F. Buscaglia
"The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning."
— Jack Welch
"The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. "
— Thomas Jefferson
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it. "
— Karl Marx
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent."
— Irving Berlin
"The purpose of human life is to show compassion and the will to help others."
— Albert Schweitzer
"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"People with small minds talk about other people. People with average minds talk about events. People with great minds talk about ideas "
— Anonymous
"Success is the prize for those who stand true to their ideas!"
— Josh S. Hinds
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation."
— Arthur Ashe
"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines."
— Gary Sinise
"Success is never permanent, and failure is never final."
— Mike Ditka
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
— Nelson Mandela
"Everyone who has achieved financial independence will tell you that – at least in the early days -- you have to work smarter and harder. The price of success must be paid in full, and it must be paid in advance. There are no shortcuts."
— John Cummuta
"The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality."
— Ronald Reagan
"The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
— Dale Carnegie
"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."
— Napoleon Hill
"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
— Pablo Picasso
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
— Conrad Hilton
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
— Woodrow Wilson
"It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever — the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it."
— Vince Lombardi
"When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision."
— Ronald Reagan
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."
— African Proverb
"You'll have time to rest when you're dead."
— Robert De Niro
"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
— Mother Teresa
"There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare. "
— Sun Tzu
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare
"You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity."
— Thomas Wolfe
"Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price."
— Vince Lombardi
"Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity."
— William Menninger
"We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
— Anne Frank
"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."
— Abraham Lincoln
"The difficult can be done immediately, the impossible takes a little longer."
— Army Corp of Engineers
"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
— Arthur Ashe
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it."
— Colin Powell
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
— Satchel Paige
"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
— Richard M. Nixon
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
— Ralph Nader
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one."
— Benjamin Franklin
"The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
— William Wordsworth
"Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging."
— Deepak Chopra
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
— Henry Ford
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
— Warren Buffett
"A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."
— Bible, Proverbs 15:1
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things, which renew humanity."
— The Buddha
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
— Napoleon Bonaparte
"Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life."
— Vincent Van Gogh
"Nurture great thoughts for you cannot go higher than your thoughts."
— Benjamin Disraeli


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