Monday, May 26, 2008
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."
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."
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."
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
Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Thursday, May 8, 2008
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
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
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.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Robert Frost
"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
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."
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