Friday, February 26, 2010

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
>> Tony Robbins

Thursday, February 25, 2010

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
>> Carl Lewis
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
>> Grandma Moses
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
>> Frank A. Clark
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
>> Confucius

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.
>> Unknown
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
>> Maria Robinson
Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.
>> Ingvar Kamprad
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
>> Heraclitus
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
>> Harold S. Kushner

Monday, February 22, 2010

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
>> George Eliot

Friday, February 19, 2010

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
>> Michel de Montaigne
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
>> Abraham Maslow
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
>> Epictetus

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
>> F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing,doing nothing, and being nothing.
>> Aristotle
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
>> Carl Jung

Monday, February 15, 2010

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
>> Carlos Castaneda
Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.
>> George Evans

Sunday, February 14, 2010

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.
>> Henry Ward Beecher
The beginning is always today.
>> Mary Wollstonecra

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
>> Carl Jung
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
>> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
>> J.C. Watts

Friday, February 12, 2010

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
>> Anthony J. D'Angelo
You can do so much in 10 minutes' time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
>> Ingvar Kamprad, Founder of IKEA

Thursday, February 11, 2010

We must let go of the life we planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
>> Joseph Campbell
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
>> Wayne Dyer
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
>> Robert H. Schuller
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
>> Mort Walker
Many of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
>> Brendan Francis
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 wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
>> Esther Williams

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
>> Bertrand Russell
The past does not define you, the present does.
>> Jillian Michaels
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
>> Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
>> Henry Ward Beecher
A leader leads by example not by force.
>> Sun Tzu
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
>> Kent M. Keith
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
>> Thomas Jefferson
In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.
>> Elbert Hubbard

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
>> Harland Sanders
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope.
>> Thomas Carlyle
Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.
>> Dr Samuel Johnson

Monday, February 08, 2010

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
>> Milton Berle
How long should you try? Until.
>> Jim Rohn
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
>> Sydney J Harris

Sunday, February 07, 2010

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
>> Thomas J. Watson
If we did all the things that we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
>> Thomas Edison

Saturday, February 06, 2010

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
>> Robert Frost
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
>> Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
>> Zig Ziglar

Friday, February 05, 2010

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
>> William James
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
>> Winston Churchill
Growing old is nothing more than mind over matter; If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
>> Anonymous

Thursday, February 04, 2010

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
>> Henry David Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
>> Aristotle
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
>> Ralph Waldo Emerson