February 2012
13 posts
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Man attains in the measure that he aspires. His longing to be is the gauge of what he can be. -James Allen
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
- Les Brown
It may be those who do most, dream most.
- Stephen Leacock
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more you can dream, the more you can do.
- Michael Korda
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
- Benjamin Franklin
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. -Benjamin Franklin
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.
- Richard Bach
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
- Tom Stoppard
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
- Orison Swett Marden
January 2012
18 posts
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all. -Emerson
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. -Benjamin Disraeli
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. -Goethe
You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
- Lou Holtz
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. -Charles M. Schwab
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- Les Brown
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.
- Confucius
You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
- Les Brown
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
- Thomas Szasz
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use. -Washington Irving
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -Anne Lindbergh
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
- Bernard Baruch
Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so he is.
- Publilius Syrus
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
- Napoleon Hill
There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
- Samuel Johnson
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. -Marcel Proust
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
- Marcus Aurelius
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
-Emerson
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
- Les Brown
December 2011
91 posts
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
- Leigh Hunt
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
- Denis Diderot
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. -J.P. Morgan
Wise Saying
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
- Gregory Gretsch
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
- Winston Churchill
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
- Benjamin Franklin
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
- Wendell Phillips
Is boredom anything less than the sense of one’s faculties slowly dying?
- John Berger
Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
-Alfred Whitehead
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. -Orison Swett Marden
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
- Orison Swett Marden
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
- Orison Swett Marden
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
- John Dryden
Life is a comedy for those who think…and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole