Quotes
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
“Once a mind is expanded with a concept or idea, it can never be satisfied to go back to where it was. You’ve got to be a risk taker.
It means you are willing to challenge
yourself, to go beyond your present
capabilities and comfort zone, to reinvent yourself. We can go outside right now and find pigeons, but it takes time to find eagles.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing
you can do is nothing.”– Theodore Roosevelt
“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”– Benjamin Franklin
“I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“The notion of happiness is so indefinite that although every man wishes to attain it yet he never can say definitely and consistently what it is that he really wishes and wills.” — Immanuel Kant
“A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility” Aristotle
“Wealth is not enough to give us happiness, but poverty makes happiness impossible.” (Soccio pg 187, Aristotle)
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all
disorder a secret order.” – Jung
“Events do not just happen, but arrive by appointment” (Seneca) but you can set them (me)
“it’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price” Warren Buffett
“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is
who you become. Your integrity is your destiny – it is the light that guides your way.” Heraclitus
“Today I will do what others won’t,
So tomorrow I can do what others can’t”
At the dedication of the Gettysburg Memorial — barely four months after the last soldier staggered from another Pennsylvania field — Mr. Lincoln said, “we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.”
Lincoln used those words to immortalize their sacrifice.
“here happiness is esteemed the highest good.” (Motto hung over the entrance to the Garden of Epicurus)
“The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son and tempts him to lead a less usefull and less worthy life than he otherwise would.” Andrew Carnegie 1891
“A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.” Thomas Carlyle
“At this season of THE WINTER SOLSTICE may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.”
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men.” – Carl Sagan
“it’s like the ramp is about to drop before deploying onto the battlefield. It’s the calm before the storm. Final arguements are about to be made. Then “The Judge” will make His decision. I’ve got a million thoughts but nothing to be said. Before it hits the fan, we will be calm, briefed and prepared for war!” (Source from Matt Pena)
“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.” (Jack Buck)
“Exerience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.” (Vernon Sanders Law)
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” (George Patton)
“That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” (Neitzsche)
“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” (Richard Cech)
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” (Robert Collier)
“All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.” (Samuel Butler)
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. (Confucius)
“Let your thoughts be positive for they will become your words.
Let your words be positive for they will become your actions.
Let your actions be positive for they will become your values.
Let your values be positive for they will become your destiny.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Alva Edison
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.” – Sun Tzu
“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” (James Dean)
“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not.” (Kurt Cobain)
“Happiness seems less a matter of getting what we want than of wanting what we have.” (David G. Meyers)
“An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep.” (Napoleon)
“There’s those that make things happen…those that watch things happen…and those that ask, “What happened?” (Darren Carter)
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.”
“If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.” – Anon
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden
“It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Always behave like a duck; keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.” – Lord Barbizon
“Getting what you wish for is the test of whether you understand what you really need.” – Scott Harrison
“The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.” – Henrik Ibsen
“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” – Allan K. Chalmers
“Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” – Anonymous
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
- Abe Lincoln
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you was?” – Satchel Paige
“We were written in the stars, my love, all that separated us, was time, the time it took to read the map which was placed within our hearts, to find our way back to one another.” – Unknown
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain.
But you have already borne the pain.
What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” – Kahlil Gibran
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” – John F. Kennedy
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Alan Ashley-Pitt
“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” – Aparajito Sen
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything” – N Hill
“Be good to the people on your way
Up the ladder ’cause you’ ll need
Them on your way down” – Mr Lucky Philip “Lucky Dube” (I don’t like the idea of going down, but the quote is interesting nonetheless)
I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards. – Jim Rohn
“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.” – Gene Roddenberry (creator of Star Trek)
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.” – Edward Eggleston
“Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.” – Frank L. Gaines
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.” – Marcus Aurelius
“When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it… There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
“WISHING will not bring riches. But DESIRING riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which DOES NOT RECOGNIZE FAILURE, will bring riches.
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
-Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill
“If you think you are beaten, you are, If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you like to win, but you think you can’t, It is almost certain you won’t.
If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost, For out in the world we find, Success begins with the fellow’s will- It’s all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are, You’ve got to think high to rise, You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize.
Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man, But soon or late the man who wins Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!” -Anonymous
“Our own doubts and fears are the only things that prevent us from attracting greater wealth or achieving any expansive goal. The vast majority of the work it takes to succeed is internal — dealing with our doubts and fears.” – Marc Allen
“Take risks. Don’t fear failure — every successful person I’ve ever known has had their share of failures. If you keep intending to be successful, each failure is just another stepping stone on your way to your inevitable success.”-Marc Allen
“It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference”. -Jenny Craig
“In the long run, your life becomes a reflection of what you choose to connect with most often.”-Steve Pavlina
“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because… All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are”.-Mark Cuban
“Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant”
-P. T. Barnum
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Back in the old days when I first started, all my buddies would go out drinking and partying while I worked. Now they’re working and I’m the one having fun” – Ron Rice
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” -Author Unknown
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on that first one.” – Mark Twain
“The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you!” – Rocky Balboa
“I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.” – Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” – T. E. Lawrence
“Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them”. – Ann Landers
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog” – Mark Twain
“Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger” – Micheal S. Kirby
“Fall down seven times, get up eight” – Chinese proverb
“It’s never too late to become what you might have been”. – George Elliot
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