Notable Quotes
This collection of notable quotes, collected
from here and there,
is worthy of periodic review and reflection.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy
is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. -Will
Rogers
Worry is like a rocking chair - it gives you something
to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. -Dorothy Galyean
And the fox said to the little prince: men have
forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible,
forever, for what you have tamed. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery [The Little
Prince]
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. -American
Indian Proverb
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior,
the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. -Henry C. Link
When we seek to discover the best in others, we
somehow bring out the best in ourselves. -William Arthur Ward
Let us so live that when we come to die even the
undertaker will be sorry. -Mark Twain, U.S. Author (1835-1910)
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his
station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under
a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. -Charles Schwab
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots
of ideas. -Linus Pauling
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves
undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
-Hans Margolius
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but
a manner of traveling. -Margaret Lee Runbeck
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying
down. -Mary Pickford
Most people reach the top of the ladder of success
only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.
Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the
present tense and the past perfect.
The only thing you take with you when you're gone
is what you leave behind. -John Allston
How did a fool and his money get together in the
first place?
Technology is dominated by two types of people:
those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what
they do not understand.
Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers
are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage:
management. -Scott Adams
We often borrow from our tomorrows to pay our
debts to our yesterdays. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
Toe: A part of the foot used to find furniture
in the dark. -Rilla May
If you're not afraid to face the music you may
some day lead the band.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity
for kindness. -Seneca
The best vitamin for making friends, B-1.
We are really just figments of God's imagination.
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses
the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end. -Harry
Emerson Fosdick
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but
in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -A Yale
University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express
Corp.)
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory
note; today is the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be
in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-G. H. Hardy
Mr. Bullfrog sez: Time is fun when you're having
flies.
Great works are performed not by strength, but
perseverance. -Samuel Johnson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to
arrive, and the true success is to labour. -Robert L. Stevenson
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities
of progress. -Thomas A. Edison
If I listen, I have the advantage. If I speak,
the others have it.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them
what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -General George
S. Patton, Jr.
We do not see things as they are, we see things
as we are. -Talmudic Saying
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
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent. -Marilyn vos Savant
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect
everything, the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll
need them on your way down. -W. Migner
Continue to be yourself because in the end that's
what people will remember about you.
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns
must never attempt to gather flowers.
Money often costs too much. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The generation of random numbers is too important
to be left to chance.
True knowledge comes in small, slow doses.
Most of us are just about as happy as we make
up our minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie
is its pleasure. -Victor Hugo
This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to
be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently
of no value to us. -Western Union internal memo, 1876
Always remember that you are unique. Just like
everyone else.
Consultant: n. One who borrows your watch to tell
you what time it is and then keeps the watch.
It's not a matter of where you stand but in what
direction you're headed.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but
in rising up every time we fail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is
that sooner or later she'll have to keep it. -Mark Beltaire
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least
work are most active. -Leonardo da Vinci
Conscience is the inner voice warning us that
someone may be looking. -H.L. Mencken
A wise man will make more opportunities than he
will find.
You are never given a wish without also being
given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however -Richard
Bach
There is nothing like returning to a place that
remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela [A Long Walk to Freedom]
If you judge, investigate. -Seneca
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a
sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death
by a frown on the right person's brow. -Charles Brower
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed
of, he always declares that it is his duty. -George Bernard Shaw
I never said it was possible. I only said it was
true. -Charles Richet, Nobel Laureate in Physiology
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the
future in debt to ourselves. -John Buchan (1875-1940) Scottish author
The whole point of getting things done is knowing
what to leave undone. -Stella, Lady Reading
Elbonics: Two people maneuvering for one armrest
in a movie theater.
If you go into a situation with nothing planned,
sometimes wonderful stuff happens. -Jerry Garcia
It is often better not to see an insult than to
avenge it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country
is superior to all others because you were born in it. -G.B. Shaw
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -Gen. Omar Bradley
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn
first to do with diligence. -Samuel Johnson
When professors want your opinion, they'll give
it to you.
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-Yogi Berra
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to
arrive, and the true success is to labour. -Robert L. Stevenson The louder
he talks of honour, the faster we count our spoons. -Emerson
Too bad all the people who know how to run the
country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -George Burns
You know the oxygen masks on airplanes ? I don't
think there's really any oxygen. I think they're just to muffle the screams.
-Rita Rudner
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone
of prosperity. -Charles Dickens
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail. -Ralph Waldo Emerson |