Monday, May 26, 2008

Immanuel Kant

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

H. L. Mencken

"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Alfred North Whitehead

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."

Pearl Buck

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Anwar el-Sadat

"I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me."

Jesse Owens

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort"

Joseph Addison

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."

Plato

"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

Friday, May 16, 2008

Buck Rodgers

"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity."

Andy Rooney

"Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head."

Cicero

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

William E. Gladstone

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

William Ellery Channing

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Corporate Proverb

"What gets measured gets improved."

Katherine Mansfield

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Seneca

"Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one."

Anatole France

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

Oprah Winfrey

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. "

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Terence

"There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly."

Thomas Alva Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Stewart B. Johnson

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays, to do our work with more force than ever before."

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Ivy Baker Priest

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

Akhenaton

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increases his riches, increases his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble finds it not."

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Friedrich Nietzsche

"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."

Pericles

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it."

William Arthur Ward

"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”

Monday, May 5, 2008

English Proverb

"A full cup must be carried steadily."

Frank A. Clark

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Lao-tzu

"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."

Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Albert Einstein

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

Hyman Rickover

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Rex Hudler

"Be a fountain, not a drain."

Friday, May 2, 2008

Oprah Winfrey

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Robert Frost

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."

John Wesley

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

Aristotle

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."