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He
that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
--Thomas Fuller, MD
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Call it what you will, incentives are what get people
to work harder.
--Nikita Khruschev
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is one-percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
--Thomas Edison |
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Always do
what you are afraid to do.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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In the middle
of difficulty lies opportunity.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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Difficulties
are meant to rouse, not discourage.
--William Ellery Channing
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It’s
not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do
not dare that they are difficult.
--Seneca (3 BC – 65 AD)
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
--Thomas Fuller, MD |
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
--Sir Winston Churchhill
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions—it
only guarantees equality of opportunity.
--Irving Kristol
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Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
--Theordore Roosevelt
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t,
you are usually right.”
--Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
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What a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
The Holy Bible
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Never give up, for that is just the place and time the
tide will turn.
--Harriett Beecher Stowe
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It’s darkest before the dawn.
--Florence Scovell Shinn |
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A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks that
others throw at him or her.
--David Brinkley
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Each
problem I solved became a rule, which served afterwards
to solve other problems.
--Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Discours de la Methode |
If
you are going through hell, keep going.
--Sir Winston Churchhill (1874-1965) |
Don’t
stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
--George Burns (1896-1996) |
Three
o’clock is always too late or too early for anything
you want to do.
--Jean-Paul Sarte (1905-1980) |
Success
usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking
for it.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
Obstacles
are the frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goals.
--Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
We
are not retreating—we are advancing in another direction.
--General Douglas Mac Arthur (1880-1964) |
I
have not failed; I’ve just found 10,000 ways that
won’t work.
--Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
The
difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’
is like an egg-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’—the
pig was ‘committed.’
--unknown |
Are
you in, or are you out?
--unknown |
It’s
kind of fun to do the impossible.
--Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
I
don’t know anything about music. In my line you
don’t have to.
--Elvis Presley (1935-1977) |
Who
the hell wants to hear actors talk?
--H.M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers
in 1927 |
We
don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on
the way out.
--Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 |
The concept is interesting and wellformed, but in order
to earn
better thana ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.
--A Yale University management professor
in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing
reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to
found Federal Express Corp.)
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There’s
many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a
good teacher.
--Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) |
Good
teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.
--Gail Godwin |
We
didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
--Vince Lombardi |
The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same
level of thinking we were at when we created them.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good
men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
It
has become appallingly obvious that our technology has
exceeded our humanity.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
Every
day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest
people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.
--Robert Orben |
One
of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is
the
belief that one’s work is terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
There
are only two ways to live your life. One is as though
nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything
is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
God
is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
--Voltaire (1694-1778) |
The
true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can
do him absolutely no good.
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
Neither
fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
--Buddha |
The
nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk
about other people.
--Lucille S. Harper |
I
have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
--Xenocrates (396-314 BC) |
Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens.
--Jimi Hendrix |
Everything
that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves.
--Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) |
Some
cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they
go.
--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
Denial
ain’t just a river in Egypt.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
Whatever
is begun in anger ends in shame.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
If
you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet,
you’d best teach it to dance.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
My
advice to you is to get married: if you find a good wife
you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
--Socrates (470-399 BC) |
Every
day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.
--Emile Coue |
Keep
your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
--Helen Keller |
