February 2012
31 posts
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
- William Cowper
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
- Horace Mann
You always have to give 100%, because if you don’t, someone, someplace, will give 100% & will beat you when you meet. -Ed Macauley
Don’t let the negativity given to you by the world disempower you. Instead give to yourself that which empowers you. -Les Brown
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. -Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
- Abraham Maslow
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
- Baltasar Gracián y Morales
The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
- Lee Iacocca
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!
- Woodrow Wilson
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there’s so little competition.
- Elbert Hubbard
To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
- Eric Hoffer
Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Les Brown
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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