Thursday 8 September 2011

Quotations lots and lots more...

Hye Everybody,
Thursday, 8 Sep 11
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Actually, this is my first time, open up my blogging site.. and most important is, this is my 1st note :) and.. oh yea, it will be a historic moment right now. What? want to know my name? aaa.. sorry for that, i have noname. Haha Im kidding, err ok i know, next time i'll write a little about myself. So far, please consider my name is NoName ok. Im very sorry berlori-lori because my english is not very well and not in good condition hahaha. because Im not from west, so? where? yeah, if you thinking like that, please consider it well.:)

ahh, so, i dont want to write anything again, because most of you maybe doesn't understand what im mumbling about. So.. straight forward based on the title i have mark, here i want to share my collection of quotation from a great and historical person some of them we know, and some not. i have collect it a years but, this is a half quotation i can get since i formatted my laptop because of bloody viruses..damn! So here we go, please scroll, and scroll ur mickey.


All quotation
"I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or
skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in
life."

-- Dean Koontz
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:
To rise above the little things."

-- John Burroughs
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going
along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not
bothering."

-- Winnie the Pooh
"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find
your treasure."

-- Paulo Coelho
"I will never put my name on a product that does not have the
best that is in me."

-- John Deere
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will
remain constant."

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep
one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own
way. And second, let her have it."

-- Lyndon B. Johnson
"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a
new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."

-- Tony Robbins
"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you
learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you
handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is
never quit, never quit, never quit."

-- Bill Clinton
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you
are. You are what you are!"

-- John Lennon
"Man imposes his own limitations, don't set any."

-- Anthony Baily
"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained
Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from
them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right
reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

-- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth
"There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that
some people require more understanding than others."

-- Tom Robbins
"Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people
laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and
pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human
beings."

-- W. Lee Grant
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you
have made an approach to immortality."

-- Norman Cousins
"Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do
something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody
goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a
crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a
champion someday."

-- Wilma Rudolph
"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the
future, and live in the only moment of time over which you
have any control: NOW."

-- Denis Waitley
"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.
Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you
interpret events to yourself."

-- Brian Tracy
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let
them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness,
insight. When we do the best we can, we never know what
miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

-- Helen Keller
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

-- Amy Tan
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is
pleased."

-- Katharine Hepburn
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

-- James Joyce
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes
it."

-- John Wooden
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The only difference between successful people and
unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination."

-- Mary Kay Ash
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust
your gut extinct."

-- Paula Abdul
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at
one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words
can be heard as well as our voices."

-- Richard M. Nixon
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If
you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to
the world by playing your role in the concert."

-- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that
every experience develops some latent force within you, you
will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your
circumstances may seem to be."

-- John R. Miller
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who
will get you where you want to go, no one else."

-- Les Brown
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you
foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without
it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in
beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life."

-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved
the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve
the same results."

-- Tony Robbins
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things
you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude
for."

-- Zig Ziglar
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in
talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not
aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

-- Denis Waitley
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the
hand."

-- Randy Pausch
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on
yourself and you can make a fortune."

-- Jim Rohn
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I would rather the man who presents something for my
consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle
breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a
curtain of hot wind."

-- Grover Cleveland
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change
so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you
appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you
eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes
good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

-- Marilyn Monroe
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"You will never change your life until you change something
you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your
daily routine."

-- John C. Maxwell
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The only good luck many great men ever had was being born
with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck."

-- Channing Pollock
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in
your own way."

-- Christopher Morley
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe,
and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is
freedom from fear."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself."

-- George Bernard Shaw
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's
what I have to say. The second is only part of the first."

-- Anna Quindlen
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our
dog and all the things he destroyed. Then again, how many
yachts wait by the door all day for your return?"

-- John Grogan
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as
good as anyone else can. It's just to do the job as best you
can. If it turns out good, fine. If it doesn't, that's the way
it goes."

-- Chuck Yeager
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true
wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is
true power."

-- Lao-Tzu
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort,
you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot
have an abundant crop without cultivation."

-- Plato
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All
life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the
better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your
coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly
rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be
so afraid of a tumble."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep
looking upward."

-- Charlotte Bronte
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing
something else."

-- James Matthew Barrie
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them
never came."

-- James Garfield
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of
our train to opportunity and success."

-- Burt Lawlor
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but
in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart
is developed."

-- Vincent Van Gogh
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In
return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."

-- Robert Muller
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of
the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I
have won every race I've been in."

-- Ian Thorpe
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are
going, because you might not get there."

-- Yogi Berra
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power
working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of
paramount importance that we know how to harness and control
this great force."

-- Irving Berlin
oday's Inspirational Quote:

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the
habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

-- Epictetus
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the
smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying
to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a
single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could
expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you
will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been
worthwhile."

-- Arnold Toynbee
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it
embarrasses your children."

-- Marilyn Penland
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it
foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get
inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you
believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you
act upon them."

-- Jim Rohn
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are
dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality."

-- Dom Helder Camara
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take
without forgetting."

-- Elizabeth Bibesco
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

-- Henry David Thoreau
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"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 Bradstreet
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a
negative decision in the low time. Never make your most
important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be
patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come."

-- Robert H. Schuller
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Integrity is the essence of everything successful."

-- Richard Buckminster Fuller
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a
pessimist who is always right."

-- Unknown
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best."

-- Epictetus
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending."

-- Maria Robinson
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry
with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves
reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are
only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its
condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze
inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

-- Kirsten Zambucka
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Everyone has special talents, and it is our duty to find ours
and use them well."

-- John Templeton
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm
and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can
have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

-- Jawaharlal Nehru
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If it's sanity you're after, there's no recipe like
laughter."

-- Henry Rutherford Elliot
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that
one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a
strong won't."

-- Henry Ward Beecher
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and
to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

-- Henry Van Dyke
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen,
others make it happen."

-- Michael Jordan
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make
anything."

-- Edward Phelps
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more
open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not
really desire the things they failed to obtain."

-- Andre Maurois
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have
it. The only real security that a man will have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

-- Henry Ford
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

-- Charlie Chaplin
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather
strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the
business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is
firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue
their principles unto death."

-- Leonardo da Vinci
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man
and the life he leads?"

-- Albert Camus
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose
change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of
pleasure."

-- Gene Perret
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be
written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."

-- James A. Garfield
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take
the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe
that one of two things will happen. There will be something
solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."

-- Patrick Overton
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"You learn something every day if you pay attention."

-- Ray LeBlond
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy."

-- Mike Ditka
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are
comfortable with them and have spent years building systems
and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has
worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we
forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we
have become used to seeing it that way through a particular
set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need
to throw the old ones away."

-- Kenichi Ohmae
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and
then she stops to breathe."

-- Jimmy Durante
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to
carry through life."

-- John Hancock
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know what his grandson will be."

-- Abraham Lincoln
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity."

-- Colin Powell
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes
your smile can be the source of your joy."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to
win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

-- Zig Ziglar
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"From the depth of need and despair, people can work together,
can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill
their own needs with dignity and strength."

-- Cesar Chavez
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight
it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where
you stand?"

-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up
and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't
find them, make them."

-- George Bernard Shaw
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs
and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking
you with a sharp stick called 'truth.'"

-- Dan Rather
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are
still doing something interesting and good; you're in the
business because you're breathing."

-- Louis Armstrong
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds,
can change the outer aspects of their lives."

-- William James
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods
when I nod; my shadow does that much better."

-- Plutarch
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like
something you've earned."

-- Frank Howard Clark
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a
hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud."

-- Carl Sandburg
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities
there are to laugh at it."

-- Bill Nye
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the
whole staircase."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do
against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold
increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like
manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great
wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right,
you'll probably never do much of anything."

-- Win Borden
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward!
The thing is to move!"

-- Edgar Cayce
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people
ask better questions, and as a result, they get better
answers."

-- Anthony Robbins
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a
finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."

-- Doug Coupland
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

-- Julie Andrews
oday's Inspirational Quote:

"The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very
good. Understanding is joyous."

-- Carl Sagan
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more
fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of
the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we
are among the privileged."

-- Helen Keller
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination;
never limit others because of your own limited imagination."

-- Mae Jemison, astronaut
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to
remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

-- Thomas Jefferson
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"I've always found that anything worth achieving will always
have obstacles in the way and you've got to have that drive
and determination to overcome those obstacles on route to
whatever it is that you want to accomplish."

-- Chuck Norris
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"If I have made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing
more to patient attention than to any other talent."

-- Sir Isaac Newton
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my
life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything
that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

-- Wayne Dyer
oday's Inspirational Quote:

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of
this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of
sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged.
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today,
but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

-- Dale Carnegie
"Mishaps are like knives that either serve or cut us as we
grasp them by the blade or handle."

-- James Russell Lowell
"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to
respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you
compel others to respect you."

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
"Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you
will reach your destiny."

-- Carl Schurz
"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world
straight in the eye."

-- Helen Keller
"The shell must break before the bird can fly."

-- Tennyson
"It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so
short."

-- Ernest Hemingway
"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable
to the child as it is to the caterpillar."

-- Bradley Miller
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the
rest of my life there."

-- Charles F. Kettering
"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you
can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once
you've lost it you can never get it back."

-- Harvey MacKay
"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the
source code."

-- Unknown
"Life is a series of commas, not periods."

-- Matthew McConaughey
"Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear
three kinds -- all they have had, all they have now, and all
they expect to have."

-- Edward Everett Hale
"Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the
chess player, not the chess piece."

-- Ralph Charell
"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage.
Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of
them."

-- Erma Bombeck
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had
bloody well better find some way that is going to be
interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

-- Katharine Hepburn
"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things
I haven't done."

-- Lucille Ball
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be
happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by
fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of
achievement."

-- Golda Meir
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the
world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more
I gain."

-- Susan B. Anthony
"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow
feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

-- Kay Knudsen
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more
clearly ourselves."

-- Lynn Hall
Today's Inspirational Quote:

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is
constantly making exciting discoveries."

-- A. A. Milne
"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and
we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of
happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first
calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort
somewhere."

-- Jane Austen
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

-- Tom Robbins
"I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a
necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life
through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you
to laugh at all of life's realities."

-- Theodor S. Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss
"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it
was lived for."

-- David Starr Jordan
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not
really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

-- Mitch Albom
"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We
go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it
doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is
that we embark."

-- Barbara Hall
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

-- Lord Byron
"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again.
Fail better."

-- Samuel Beckett
"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to
be."

--Clementine Paddleford
"To get the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain."

-- Dolly Parton
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a
present and not giving it."

-- William Arthur Ward (Sharing this quote was inspired by one
of our long-time subscribers, Emmy. Thank you, Emmy!)

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doesn't mean it's useless."

-- Thomas A. Edison
"If you've never run aground, you've never been anywhere!"

-- Unknown
"When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to
that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger
than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link
and get free."

-- Catherine Ponder
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-- e.e. cummings
"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to
help you do it."

-- W. Clement Stone
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

-- Charles R. Swindoll
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is
also what it takes to sit down and listen."

-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone
wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more
than one night.'"

-- Charles M. Schulz
"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

-- William Shakespeare
"Art is the act of navigating without a map."

-- Seth Godin
"The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to win the
race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged."

-- Ovid
"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- Charles F. Kettering
"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where
you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

-- George Herbert
"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in
the use made of them."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished
when he quits."

-- Richard M. Nixon
"Failure is never final and success is never ending. Success
is a journey, not a destination."

-- Ben Sweetland
"Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will
come back to you."

-- Madeline Bridges
"I think when you move past your fear and you go after your
dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying?
Move past the fear."

-- James Todd Smith (aka LL Cool J)

~~~
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in
continuous formation through choice of action."

-- John Dewey