The secret of persuasion is to induce the person to persuade him or herself.
- Anonymous
Never break faith with the truth.
- George Tenet
If you allow people to take advantage of you, they will!
- Anonymous
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
Ignorance and arrogance are too often found in the company of fools.
- J.E. Littleton
The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Anonymous
Life shouldn't be a journey to the grave with the idea of arriving safely in an attractive & well-preserved body;
but to skid in sideways, body all used up, worn out & yelling WOO HOO! WHAT A RIDE!
- Gypsy (of Grants Pass, OR)
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
- André Gide
If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
- Andy Dufresne from Stephen King's "Shawshank Redemption"
Ever heard the phrase "perception is reality"? That just cuts all kinds of different ways, doesn't it? One thing's for sure: whatever
your reality, you can't perceive if you're unwilling to look.
- Unknown at this time
There are only 10 types of people in this world: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
- Unknown at this time
I have four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything
with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
- Albert Schweitzer
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him
the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Chase the dream, not the competition.
- Nemesis Racing Team
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
- Maureen Dowd
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry Goldwater
What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price
is high.
- Anonymous
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
- Douglas McArthur
Ethnic isolation promotes racial discrimination.
- John Littleton
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon
you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
As a general rule, you have to accept that no matter where you work, you are not an employee; you are in a business with one employee
- yourself.
- Intel CEO, Andrew Grove
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
- Jack Nicklaus
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
- Thomas Hobbes
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
- Goethe
"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything is different."
- Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson)
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
- Seneca
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Only cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.
- Andrew Carnegie
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
It's hard for one to comprehend the universe when there's nothing to compare it to.
- Unknown at this time.
Some see things and say, "Why?" but I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have
sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original dimension.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe
depositories.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
- Albert Einstein
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
- Hasidic saying
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
- Opra Winfrey
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done
them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy
cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo
their use.
- Galileo Galilei
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (
and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely
commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole
stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance,
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power
and magic in it. Begin it now!
- Goethe
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford
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