Good Thoughts
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.
- R. H. Grant
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard
to sleep after.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
A child becomes an adult when he realises that he has a right not only
to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words
return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
- Florence Scovel Shinn
I value the friend who, for me, finds time on his calendar, but I
cherish the friend who, for me, does not consult his calendar.
- Reader's Digest
Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
- Lewis Grizzard
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
- Libbie Fudim
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can
be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the
right person's brow.
- Charles Brower
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
- Paulo Freire
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It's not a matter of where you stand but in what direction you're
headed.
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to
ourselves.
- John Buchan (1875 - 1940) Scottish author
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life
when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never
sit.
-D. Elton Trueblood
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with
diligence.
- Samuel Johnson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it
true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach
Conscience is the inner voice warning us that someone may be looking.
- H.L. Mencken
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time
we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 65)
The trouble with doing nothing is that you never know when you are
finished.
Those who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to
gather flowers.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own
despised and unwanted feelings.
- Alice Miller
If you are having trouble keeping your head above water, you probably
aren't on your toes.
- Liguorian
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent,
and warn the opposed.
- Whitney M. Young
Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will
remember about you.
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is
a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a
vegetarian.
- Dennis Wholey
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way
down.
- W. Migner
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the
child as it is to the caterpillar.
- Bradley Miller
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have
things I am not able to appreciate.
- Elbert Hubbard
Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues,
And there are words not made with lungs.
- Crashaw
Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?
- H. Jackson Browne [P.S. I Love You]
LAWYER : is a cat who solves the dispute between 2 mice
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the
problem.
- G.K. Chesterton
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failures.
- Edward Eggleston
The old believe everything, the middle - aged suspect everything, the
young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every
tree.
- William Blake
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must
be.
- Abraham Maslow
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the
years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner, you have learned how to live.
- Lin Yutang
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do.
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do
not live.
- Francoise Sagan
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- General George S. Patton, Jr.
Someday you will get your big chance - - or have you already had it?
This is the final test of the gentleman: his respect for those who can
be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon Phelps
Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly
level.
- Max L. Forman
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Law...begins when someone takes to doing something someone else does not
like.
- Karl Llewellyn
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true
success is to labour.
- Robert L. Stevenson
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts
Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more
important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Doust thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff
life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Many a man's tongue broke his nose.
- Seumas MacManus
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty
as himself, and hates them for it.
- George Bernard Shaw
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1958
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove
all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success
depends on which one you use; heads you win - tails you lose.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No wonder nobody comes here - - it's too crowded.
The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest
willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
If you're not afraid to face the music you may some day lead the band.
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the
same enemy - the mother.
- Claudette Colbert
Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is
the only cash you have. Spend it wisely.
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner, you have learned how to live.
- Lin Yutang
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a
son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death,
your right to say it.
- Voltaire (1694-1778)