Quotes of the Past
"
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange
apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we
exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
"
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop
and look at it once and a while...you could miss it."
Ferris Bueller
"
Make no little plans;
they have no magic to stir men's blood
and probably will themselves not be realized.
Make
big plans;
aim high in hope and work, remembering that
a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."
Daniel Burnham
" If at first you don’t succeed,
try looking in the waste basket for the instructions."
Ann Landers
" Life is too short to dwell on the small things.
Forgive, forget and move on with your life."
Author Unknown
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous;
you
get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret
Thatcher,
Former Prime Minister of Great Britain
" What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us.
What
we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike, 1809-1891,
American Authoro
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness,
there is
also the success of others.
Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)
"Do All You Can,
In The Time You Have,
With What You Have,
In The Place You Are. "
Nkosi Johnson
"I hope
I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what
I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an
Honest Man. "
George Washington, 1789-1797
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you
never know how soon it will be too late."
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
1803-1882 American Poet & Essayist
"But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to
venture a little way past them into the impossible."
Arthur
C. Clark 1917
British Science Fiction Writer
"That best portion of a good man's life; His little,
nameless, unremembered acts; Of kindness and love."
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, British Poem
"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
"I like not only to be loved,
but to be told I am loved."
"All's well that ends with a good meal."
"True greatness consists in
being great in little things."
"Sin makes it's own hell,
and goodness it's own heaven."
"We choose our joys and sorrows
long before we experience them."
"Slaying the dragon of delay is
no sport for the short-winded."
"Statesmen rise and fall on the smallest of actions."
"The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted."
"Conviction is the conscience of intellect."
"In the end, you're measured not by how much
you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish"
"The one fact that I would cry from every housetop is this:
the Good Life is awaiting us - here and now."
"He gains everyone's approval who
mixes the pleasant with the useful."
"The secret to a rich life is to
have more beginnings than endings."
"I was going to change my shirt,
but I changed my mind instead."
"Change is not merely necessary to life.
It is life."
"Choose well, your choice is brief and yet endless"
"Some
people loose sight of the fact that
of two evils,
it isn't necessary to choose either."
"Mistakes
are a fact of life.
It is the response to an error that
counts."
"Each
friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they
arrive."
"Love
is what's left in a relationship after
all the selfishness has been removed"
"There's
no way to be a perfect mother
and a million ways to be a good one."
"Obstacles
are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off the goal."
"I
put all my genius into my life,
I put only talent into my works."
"Life
is just a miror,
and what you see out there,
you must first see inside of you."
"Pick
battles big enough to matter,
small enough to win.."
"He
who waits to do a great deal of good at once
will never do anything."
"Think it more satisfaction to live richly than to die rich."
"Whenever you fall, pick something up."
"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."
"A good conscience is a continual feast."
"The man who has confidence in himself
gains the confidence of others."
"Power can be taken, but not given.
The process of the taking is empowerment itself"
"You must create your own world,
I'm responsible for my world."
"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."
"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."
"Never have a companion that cast you in the shade."
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."
"Sometimes holding
on makes you stronger,
sometimes its letting go."
Unknown
"The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas."
"The strongest principal of growth lies in human choice."
"Beauty comes in all sizes not just size 5."
Rosanne Barr
"The secret of a happy marriage remain a secret."
Henny Youngman
"Only by being open to change will you have
a true opportunity to get the most of your talent"
Nolan Ryan
"Courage is grace under pressure."
Ernest Hemingway
"If you are all wrapped up in yourself,
you're overdressed."
Unknown
"A gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor a man perfected without trials."
Cicero
"Being on the tightrope is living;
everything else is waiting."
Karl Wallenda
"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until
finally I became that person. Or he became me."
Cary Grant
"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
Mae West
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time,
somehow things will work out in the end."
Larry Bird
"An idealist is a person who helps
other people to be prosperous."
Henry Ford
"At my lemonade stand I used to give the
first glass away free and charge five dollars
for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote."
Emo Philip
"My indecision is final."
Jake Eberts
"Simplicity is the peak of civilization."
Jessie Sampter
"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music,
no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other,
so we can have some conversation."