January 2012
18 posts
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
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
- Brian Tracy
If the sky falls, hold up your hands. -Spanish Proverb
The past does not equal the future.
- Tony Robbins
Continuous challenge produces continuous improvement. -Paul B. Thornton
No man ever listened himself out of a job. -Calvin Coolidge
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
- Tony Robbins
Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss. -Diane Ravitch
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. -Jim Rohn
Everything u need 4 better future & success has already been written. And guess what? All u have 2 do is go 2 the library. -Jim Rohn
The book you don’t read won’t help. -Jim Rohn
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them… -Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is 2 the mind what exercise is 2 the body. It is wholesome & bracing 4 the mind 2 have its faculties kept on the stretch. -R Steele
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. -Robert Louis Stevenson
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. -A. Townsend
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin
The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. -Mark Twain #quotes Pls RT
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness is a command to deliver mental resources. -NV Peale
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are. -B.C. Forbes
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do. -Les Brown
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. -John Stuart Mill #quotes Pls RT
We won’t even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve. -Ruth Ross
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. -Doug Horton
It’s no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself. -Hector Hugh Munro
Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down. -Wilson Mizner
“I can’t do it” never accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed miracles. -George P. Burnham