Under construction.....
When success over others is achieved
through sheer force of authority or superior position, the victory will not
last. Those who can win only by the sword are condemned to carry shields with
them everywhere. Beware of hollow victories. -- I Ching (BC 1150)
"No
plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who
remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this
truth; Enjoy the good fortune you still possess."
-- I Ching (BC 1150)
"Leaders
who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they
promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver."
-- Mark A. Clement (b.
1955), American writer, author
"Some
people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly.
There is no pleasing some people."
-- Will Cuppy"
"Some
men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when
all they need is one reason why they can."
-- Willis Whitney
"Never
mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other
helps you make a life."
-- Sandra Carey
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice". -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) -- Lebanese-born American mystic poet, painter, "The Prophet"
"Character
is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as
think."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
-- American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
"Be
slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and
constant."
-- Derek Bethune
-- President, Harvard
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes
honey,
or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has
borne."
-- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121-180 AD)
-- Roman emperor, philosopher
"If
it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night."
-- Dicky Barrett
"Life
consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
-- Josh Billings (1818-85)
-- [Henry Wheeler Shaw] American humorist, essayist
"Forgiveness
is the sweetest revenge."
-- Isaac Friedmann
"If
you planted hope today In any hopeless heart If someone's burden was lighter
Because you did your part, If you caused a laugh That chased some tears away If
tonight your name is named When someone kneels to pray Then your day has been
well spent."
-- Unknown
"Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old."
-- Ęschylus (525-456 BC)
-- Greek tragic dramatist
"Of
all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly
passions seem to follow in its train."
-- Buddha (563?-483? BC)
-- [Siddhartha Gautama] Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
"We
learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is
the tradition in which we live."
-- David P(ierpont) Gardner (b. 1933)
-- President, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
"A
competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
-- Robert Anson Heinlein (1907-88)
-- American writer, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
"It
is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the
judgment."
-- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
-- British writer, physician, created Sherlock Holmes
"I
have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark
in the dreaming youth - is this; dream a great dream."
-- John A. Appleman
"The
important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that
every child should be given the wish to learn."
-- Sir John Lubbock (1834-1913)
-- British banker, politician, naturalist. "British Wild Flowers"
"The
origin of every excuse is the failure to do something."
-- Andy Anderson
"Smile,
it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"No
man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is
unhappy."
-- (Francis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald (1896-1940)
-- American writer, "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Is the
Night"
"I
seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there
is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among
flowers."
-- Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
-- American memoirist, lecturer
"If
we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
-- Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-72)
-- English-born Colonial poet
"A
penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to
your eye."
-- Samuel Grafton
"So
of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it
remains."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
-- American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
"The
history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic
ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to
challenge."
-- Erich Fromm (1900-80)
-- German-born American psychoanalyst, social conditioning
"Do
not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make
any progress."
-- Alfred A. Montapert
"This--this
was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the
fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise
will never permit such moments to escape."
-- Roger Bannister
"Friendship
without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life."
-- James Francis Byrnes (1879-1972)
-- American politician, associate justice US Supreme Court
"The
world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
-- Sean O'Casey (1884-1964)
-- Irish dramatist
"The
best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
-- Greek philosopher
"Three
things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is
wise."
-- Welsh Proverb
"Like
dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men
still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach
the top."
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
-- English cleric, writer
"Without
friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
-- Aristotle (384-322 BC)
-- Greek philosopher
"Our
minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we
let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old
knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
-- James Truslow Adams (1878-1949)
-- American historian, writer
Tis
the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense
respected."
-- Charles Lamb
(1775-1834), British critic, essayist
"Never
solve a problem from its original perspective."
-- Charles Thompson
"The gods help them that help themselves."
-- Aesop (620-560 BC),
Greek fabulist
"I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in
the
hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses."
-- Katherine Mansfield
(1888-1923), New Zealand-born British writer,
"Bliss", "The Dove's Nest"
"Don't
give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out."
-- Christopher Reeve,
American actor/performer/advocate for the
disabled and spinal research, "Super Man"
"In
crises the most daring course is often safest."
-- Robert Francis Kennedy
(1925-68), US Attorney General
"Life
is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way
you play it is free will."
-- Jawaharial Nehru (1889-1964)
-- Prime Minister of India
"It
is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
-- American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist
"Though
a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground."
-- Malayan Proverb
"Like
the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us."
-- Loren (Corey) Eiseley (1907-77)
-- American writer, author, "The Innocent Assassins", "The Night
Country"
"Tradition
is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it
right."
-- Kirt Herbert Adler
"Fear
is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition."
-- Hugh Prather
"Never
does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when
it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury."
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"Our
minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we
let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old
knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."
-- James Truslow Adams (1878-1949)
-- American historian, writer
"Man
is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
-- Bhagavad
Gita (c. BC 400)
-- Sanskrit
poem incorporated into "Mahabharata", classic of Hinduism
"When
I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will
have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth."
-- Sara
Teasdale (1884-1933)
-- American
poet, "Love Songs"
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in
each
of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take
control."
-- Robert F.
Bennett (b. 1933)
-- American
politician, Republican
"Learn
the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never
last."
-- Jack
William Nicklaus (b. 1940)
-- American
golfer, won 17 major tournaments
"Man's mind, once stretched by a
new idea, never regains it's original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Jr.
"Often the test of courage is not
to die but to live."
-- Conte Vittorio Alfieri
"Courtesies
of a small and trivial character are the ones which
strike deepest in the gratefully
and appreciating heart."
-- Henry Clay
"He
that is good for making excuses
is seldom good for anything else
--Ben Franklin
"A
doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy.
Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then
know how to meet him."
-- Aesop
"It
is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man,
the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten."
-- Charles Baudelaire
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your
belief in injustice and
tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls
a butterfly."
-- Richard David Bach
"The key to everything is patience. You get the
chicken by hatching the egg, not
by smashing it."
-- Arnold H. Glasow
"Nothing
happens unless first a dream."
-- Carl Sandburg
(1878-1967), American writer known for free verse,
"Smoke and Steel"
"The
willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life Is the source from
which self-respect springs."
-- Joan Didion
"Friends are relatives you make for yourself."
-- Eustache Descamps
"Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
-- Scott Adams, American
cartoonist"
There
are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to
someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?"
-- Danny DeVito, American
actor, entertainer
"All
the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have
strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the
teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. "
-- Walt(er) Elias Disney
(1901-66), American animator, showman, film producer
"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote
the
good and happiness of one another."
-- Eustace Budgell