Quotations
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."(c)
--John Burroughs
"Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here."(c)
--Leo Tolstoy
"Basically, it should be a few days' work to consider if it is worth doing a few months’ work of deeper investigation."(c)
--M. Fowler
"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."(c)
--Paul Getty
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."(c)
--Albert Einstein
"I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house."(c)
--Zsa Zsa Gabor
"It's just a job. Birds fly, grass grows, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."(c)
--Muhammad Ali
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."(c)
--Fred Allen
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."(c)
--Golda Meir
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetence."(c)
--Issac Asimou
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."(c)
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure."(c)
--Unknown
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief,as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."(c)
--Cicero
"When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters; one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."(c)
--John F. Kennedy
"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."(c)
--Benjamin Spock
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."(c)
--Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
"Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do."(c)
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."(c)
--Claude Bissell
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."(c)
--Alexander Graham Bell
"He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed."(c)
--William James
"Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can."(c)
--Unknown
"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."(c)
--Unknown
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."(c)
--Henry David Thoreau
"And this too, shall pass away."(c)
--Unknown
"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning."(c)
--Ivy Baker Priest
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."(c)
--Aldous Huxley
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."(c)
--Richard Bach
"If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. 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."(c)
--Mary Pickford
"It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it."(c)
--Wally Amos
"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."(c)
--Flavia Weedn
"You can't do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow."(c)
--Unknown
"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."(c)
--Peter Drucker
"Lots of things that couldn't be done have been done"(c)
--Charles Auston Bates
"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do"."(c)
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."(c)
--St. Clement of Alexandra
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."(c)
--Albert Einstein
"The best way out is always through."(c)
--Robert Frost
"Fortune favors the brave."(c)
--Publius Terence
"Constant dripping hollows out a stone."(c)
--Lucretius
"Self-trust is the first secret of success."(c)
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."(c)
--Persian Proverb
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."(c)
--George S. Patton
"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."(c)
--William Shakespeare
"I am a photographer in the way you might be a plumber. I like it that way."(c)
--Bruce Davidson
"To get through the hardest journey, we need take only one step at a time...but we must keep on stepping."(c)
--Chinese Proverb
"When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress."(c)
--Nick Bostrom
"New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones."(c)
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
"I had a terrific idea this morning, but I didn’t like it."(c)
--Samuel Goldwyn
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgment."(c)
--Will Rogers
"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."(c)
--Jean Jaques Rousseau
"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers."(c)
--Voltaire