Opportunities Today : March 2006 Issue

QUOTES

 

 

 

• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet - Aristotle
• A man is literally what he thinks - James Allen
• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Orison Swett Marden
• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall - Confucius
• You may delay, but time will not - Benjamin Franklin
• Successful people are simply those with successful habits - Brian Tracy
• I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody - Benjamin Franklin
• We become what we think about - Earl Nightingale
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Confucius
• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage - Lao Tzu
• We make the world we live in and shape our own destiny - Orison Swett Marden
• Many can argue; not many converse - Louisa May Alcott
• Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness - George Bernard Shaw
• One kind word can warm three winter months - Japanese Proverb
• Give to another human being without the expectation of a return - Bill Bradley
• Kindness is free, so why not give some out ? Lisandra Piercey
• My religion is very simple, My religion is kindness The Dalai Lama
• Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there - Will Rogers
• I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have - Thomas Jefferson
• Art is a faithful mirror of life and civilization of a period - Jawaharlal Nehru
• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done - Longfellow
• Behind an able man there are always other able men - Chinese Proverb
• There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability - Robert Half
• Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly. - Sallust
• Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. Publilius Syrus
• Right action cannot come out of nothing, it must be preceded by thought - Jawaharlal Nehru
• Anger is short madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - Horace
• Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance - Robert Quillen
• One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who only have interests - John Stuart Mill
• There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything-both ways save us from thinking - Alfred Korzybski
• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
• Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes - Brian Tracy
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop - Confucius
• An unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates
• Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations - Earl Nightingale
• Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit - Artistotle
• Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good - Benjamin Franklin
• Let him that would move the world, first move himself - Socrates
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi
• Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives - Albert Einstein
• Democracy without discipline is a democracy without future - Unknown
• A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses - Chinese Proverb
• Man is not made to understand life, but to live it Satayana
• The right man in the wrong party is any day preferable to the wrong man in the right party- Unknown
• One of the basic laws of nature is that adaptability is the price of survival - Unknown
• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice - Shakespeare
• Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at - Solomon Short
• Opportunities multiply when they are seized, die when they are not - Benjamin Franklin