Quotes

Quotes

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"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost
300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning
shot... and missed. I've failed over and over and over again
in my life. And that is why I succeed."

-- Michael Jordan

"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter
of quality; the other, a matter of time."

-- Marabel Morgan

"The winners in life treat their body as if it were a
magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest
transportation and endurance for their lives."

-- Denis Waitley, American Author, Speaker, Trainer

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big."

-- Donald Trump

"Everything works out right in the end. If things are not
working right, it isn't the end yet. Don't let it bother you,
relax and keep on going."

-- Michael C. Muhammad

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it
will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."

-- Herm Albright

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render
some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this
service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily
grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but
that of the world at large."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging
what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence,
to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we
normally take for granted."

-- George Kneller

"You have to find something that you love enough to be able to
take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick
walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If
you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are
doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle."

-- George Lucas, Film Producer

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is
healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the
wisest might err."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show
you a failure." -- Thomas A. Edison

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

--Ann Landers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Landers>,
American advice columnist

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get."

--Bertrand Russell <http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1950/russell-bio.html>,
Nobel laureate in literature

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

--Oscar Wilde <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde>,
Anglo-Irish writer

"Your own resolution to success is more important than any
other one thing."

"Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

-- Warren Buffett

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

-- Pablo Picasso

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time."

-- Thomas Edison

"We always have time for the things we put first." --
Paul Johnson

"Today is life -- the only life you are sure of. Make the most
of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake.
Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through
you. Live today with gusto."

-- Dale Carnegie
"The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power 
behind us." -- Unknown

"It is not what you do to live, but what you live to
do." -- Unknown

"If you don't take a chance you don't have a chance."
-- Unknown

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year
ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of
fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of
them turn out all right after all?"

-- Dale Carnegie, Author and Trainer


-- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President

"Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his
proclaiming the character of another."

-- Winston Churchill, Former British Prime Minister

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way
to succeed is always to try just one more time."

-- Thomas Edison

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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch
which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it
burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future
generations."

-- George Bernard Shaw

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the world."

-- George Washington Carver

"Courage is being scared to death -- but saddling up anyway."

-- John Wayne


 Doubt vs. Faith

  Doubt sees the obstacles
  Faith sees the way.
  Doubt sees the darkest night
  Faith sees the day.
  Doubt dreads to take a step
  Faith soars on high. 
  Doubt questions 'Who believes?'
  Faith answers, 'I.'

       -- Author Unknown

"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work,
the more I have of it."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

-- Benjamin Franklin

I didn't really say everything I said.

Yogi Berra 1925-
Baseball legend

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life

Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
British Statesman

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read." -- Abraham Lincoln

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Lance Morrow Journalist

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the
way things turn out."

-- Art Linkletter, Radio and TV Host

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the
seeds you plant."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Author

"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream
will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily
this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires,
unless you make them so."

-- Marcia Wieder, Speaker and Author

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the
others crazy?"

-- Albert Einstein

"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." -- Leonardo da Vinci, Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist and Sculptor

"You gotta dance like nobody's watching, dream like you will
live forever, live like you're going to die tomorrow and love
like it's never going to hurt."

-- Meme Grifsters

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

-- Japanese Proverb

"The person who knows 'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss." -- Diane Ravitch

"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."

-- Henry David Thoreau

The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

All appears to change when we change. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do,
and THEN do your best."

-- W. Edwards Deming

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in
single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to
tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties
arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are
right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires...courage."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet and Essayist

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how
you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it
takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."

-- Oprah Winfrey, TV Personality, Producer and Author

"When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we
are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance
to learn to laugh at ourselves."

-- Katherine Mansfield, Author

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is
getting up and taking action."

-- Al Batt, Writer and Speaker

"Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your
picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the
day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something
different."

-- Unknown

"If football taught me anything about business, it is that you
win the game one play at a time."

-- Fran Tarkenton, Football Player, Author and Businessman

"Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet and Essayist

"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we
have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

-- Albert Pine

"A leader leads through inspiration. People like to work with
people going places and are starved for the energy and
excitement that business was always meant to have."

-- Loral Langemeier, Author of The Millionaire Maker

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the
future, but only in the present can I act."

-- Abraham Maslow, Psychologist

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants
from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to
believe that it is possible."

-- Richard M. DeVos

Chi prova, torna (Try it and you will come back) - Nonna

I denti sono piu vicino dei parenti - Nonna

Che se ferma e perduta. -Nonna

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. --Edward R. Murrow

It is often easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. --Adlai Stevenson

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. --Robert Frost

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. --George Washington Carver

In the beginning the dream makes the person, but in the end the person
makes the dream. -- John Maxwell

Behind a desk is a terrible place to view the world.

Talk is overrated as a means to resolve problems.

Everything ends badly or else it doesn't end.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. Og Mandino

The way of a superior man is three-fold; virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. --Confucius

BEING THE BEST

Learn and grow all you can;

serve and befriend all you can;

enrich and inspire all you can.

-- Pope John Paul II

Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day... The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty.

-- Bo Lozoff, Cofounder of the Human Kindness Foundation

To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

-- Agnes Repplier (1855-1950), Writer and historian

"A good home must be made, not bought." --Joyce Maynard

"Above all, try something." --Franklin D. Roosevelt

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later." -- Og Mandino

"You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it."

Harold S. Geneen quotes (English born American communications executive who was president and CEO of ITT, 1910-1997)

Failure Is Never Final

"For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again."¹

Failure is never final for the person who gets up one more time than s/he stumbles, falls or gets knocked down. The crucial thing, whenever we fail or fall, is that, with God's help and the support of loving friends, we get up, go on, and learn from the experience.

In younger days I recall how I made a big error on a construction site I was working on. Fortunately I had a very understanding boss. I felt really bad but have never forgotten his encouraging words. He said, "Dick, the person who never made a mistake never made anything!" Good advice for all of us who have failed and made mistakes.

I trust the following poem is as encouraging for you as it has been for me:

   I would rather stumble a thousand times
   Attempting to reach a goal,
   Than to sit in a crowd
   In my weather-proof shroud,
   A shriveled and self-satisfied soul
   I would rather be doing and daring
   All of my error-filled days,
   Than watching, and waiting, and dying,
   Smug in my perfect ways.
   I would rather wonder and blunder,
   Stumbling blindly ahead,
   Than for safety's sake
   Lest I make a mistake,
   Be sure, be safe, be dead.²

– Author Unknown

Suggested prayer: "Dear God, please help me to always get up when I fail, fall, or get knocked down. Help me not to beat myself or blame others for my failures, but accept your forgiveness, forgive myself, learn from my mistakes, and go on to bigger and better things. Thank you for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully in Jesus' name."

Tony is a web genius 04/07/2007