Miscellaneous Quotes
"Some people come into our lives and quickly
go, others stay for awhile, leave foot-prints on our hearts and we are never quite the
same"
** Unknown
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
** Norman MacEwan
"You've got to stand for something or you
will fall for anything"
** Unknown
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit
is what keeps you going."
** Unknown
"Most look up and admire the stars. A
champion climbs a mountain and grabs one."
** Unknown
"Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is
possible."
** Cadet Maxim, West Point, NY
"Choice not chance determines ones
destiny."
** Unknown
"Time.. alas.. there is no way to recover
lost time, but you learn to make use of what is left once you realize what you have
lost..."
** Yvonne Hugli
"The best way to predict the future is to
create it."
** Unknown
A wise women once said: " No one can help
everybody, but everybody can help somebody."
** Unknown
"To be a star, you must shine your own
light, follow your own path and don't worry about the darkness for that is when stars
shine the brightest."
** Unknown
"What's the difference between a hero and a
coward? Nothing. They're both afraid of getting hurt or dying, but it's what the hero does
that makes him a hero, and what the coward doesn't do that makes him a coward."
** Unknown
"When fate closes a door go in through a
window. "
** Unknown
"Of all the things you wear, your expression
is the most important."
** Unknown --
"Silent and listen are spelled with the same
letters!" --
** Unknown --
"If your chair is broken ... FIX IT" --
** Victoria Froeer --
"People say "it will take a life time" to do a
certain task ... but don't we have life time!"
** Erin Skeen --
"There are winds that blow against us no matter where we
go. but the baseball players look at that and say "maybe it will help the ball over
the fence in the left field."
** Ben Sumner --
"While pursuing our endeavors for tomorrow,
we dare not forget the
prospects of today."
** Unknown
"Do Not Go Quietly Into The Night, Rage,
Rage, Rage, Against The Dying Of The Light"
** Dylan Thomas
"Education is not preparation for life,
education is life itself."
** John Dewey
"There are always two choices, two paths to
take.One is easy. And its only reward is that it is easy."
** Unknown
"Work like you don't need the money,
Dance like no one is watching,
And love like you've never been hurt."
** Unknown
"The way to do is to be"
** Lao Tzu
"Having a dream that you don't pursue,
Is like buying an ice cream cone
And watching it melt all over your hand!"
** Unknown-
"There are always two choices. Two paths to
take, one is easy. And its only reward is that it is easy."
** Unknown-
"Its better to be silent and be called a
fool than to speak and remove all doubt!"
** Anonymous
"Faith isn't faith until it is all you
have."
** Unknown
"Success is peace of mind that is a direct
result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are
capable of becoming"
** John Wooden
"It's hard to lose your footing when your on
your knees."
** Unknown
"Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow
Don't walk behind me,
I may not lead
Just walk beside me
and be my friend."
** Unknown
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but
the question."
** Eugene Ionesco
"The graveyards are full of indispensable
men."
** Charles de Gaulle
"Learn to get in touch with the
silence within yourself and
know that everything in this
life has a purpose,
there are no mistakes,
no coincidences,
all events are blessings
given to us to learn from."
** Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Blessed is the influence of
one true, loving human soul on another."
** George Eliot
"Every artist dips his brush in his own
soul,
and paints his own nature into his pictures."
** Henry Ward Beecher
"If you think education is expensive, try
ignorance."
** Derek Bok Ex-president of Harvard
"I don't know whether the world is run by
smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it."
** hypatia
"The music is nothing if the audience is
deaf."
** Walter Lippmann
"My will shall shape my future. Whether I
fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any
obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or
lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."
** Elaine Maxwell
"What's right isn't always popular, and
what's popular isn't always right."
** Unknown
"There is never a wrong time to do the right
thing."
** Rush Limbaugh
"They who feel no shame in doing what is
obviously wrong , are the most shameful of all."
** Author Unknown
"We are a product of the choices we make,
not the circumstances that we face."
** Roger Crawford
"Being challenged in life is inevitable,
being defeated is optional."
** Roger Crawford
"Your thoughts become your words.
your words become your actions.
your actions become your habits.
your habits become your character.
your character becomes your destiny."
** Unknown
"No one can make you inferior without your
consent."
** Unknown
"If you want the rainbow you have to put up
with the rain."
** Unknown
"The past is history,
The future is a mystery
and now is a gift.
That's why we call it the present."
** Unknown
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started." --Marcus Garvey
"Any effort that has self-glorification as
its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."
** Robert M. Pirsig
"Life is like a grindstone - whether it
grinds you down or polishes
you up depends on what you're made of."
** Unknown
"Never doubt that a small group of committed
citizens can change the world. "Indeed, it's the only thing that has."
** Margaret Meade
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will
defend to death your right to say it "
** Voltaire
"People who drink to drown their sorrow
should be told
that sorrow knows how to swim."
** Ann Landers
"Gray hair is God's graffiti."
** Bill Cosby
"We fear things in proportion to our
ignorance of them. "
** Titus Livius
"From this arises the question whether it is
better to be loved rather than feared or feared rather than loved. One might perhaps
answer that we should wish to be both, but since love and fear can hardly exist together,
if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."
** Machiavelli
"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your
courage with others."
** Robert Louis Stevenson
"Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry
lion."
** Unknown
"We, and all others who believe in freedom
as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
** Franklin D. Roosevelt, Letter to Viscount Halifax, June 19, 1941
"It is in your moments of decision that your
destiny is shaped."
** Anthony Robbins
"If you do what you've always done, you'll
get what you've always gotten."
** Anthony Robbins
"The past does not equal the future."
** Anthony Robbins
"All people have fears, but the brave put
down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory."
** motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece
"They may forget what you said, but they
will never forget how you made them feel."
** Carl W. Buechner--
"When we think of failure; Failure will be
ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to
achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure For what we
think, will come about."
** Maharishi Mahesh Yogi--
"Where the determination is, the way can be
found."
** George S. Clason
"A friend is someone who knows you as you
are,
understands where you've been,
and still invites you to grow."
** Unknown
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the
determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to
excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
** Mario Andretti, Italian professional race car driver